Blank’s Lake Jewish Colony JAHSENA summer-2009
When most people think of Pine Lake, they think of a pleasant resort in the middle of a long-settled farming and ranching district in Central Alberta. Some also know it as the location of Camp BB Riback, (formerly Camp B’nai Brith). Usually the only tragedy people connect with Pine Lake is the terrible tornado, which struck in July, 2000. There is, however, another heart wrenching tragedy that occurred almost 120 years ago, northwest of Pine Lake. It involved a colony of Russian Jews that was established in 1893 at what is now known as Blank’s or Blanche Lake. It was the first Jewish agricultural settlement in Alberta. Click the above link to read the story.
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