Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Waldheim is a town of 868 residents in the rural municipality of Laird No. 404, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Waldheim is located on Highway 312 in central Saskatchewan, the "Heart of the Old Northwest". Fort Carlton, Batoche, Battle of Fish Creek, and Seager Wheeler''s Maple Grove Farm are all near Waldheim.Mennonites from Manitoba and South Dakota arrived here to settle and farm in 1893. The Canadian Northern Railway arrived in 1908.Particularly in the 1870s, Mennonites of Dutch-German origins residing in colonies in the Black Sea region of present day Ukraine became alarmed at the rising nationalism in the Russian Empire.