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63: 79: 353: 145: 86: 261:, living in a very integrated community where most of them work as carpenters, farmers and mechanics. Most Mennonites of Shipyard are quite traditional in lifestyle, still using horse and buggy for transportation and tractors with steel wheels for fieldwork. Compared with other Mennonites in Belize, Shipyard is more conservative than 285:
Around 1960 the total population of Shipyard was 728. In 1987 it had grown to 1,966. In the 2014 census it had a total population of 3,497 people. In 2017 it has grown to 3,805 people. It is thus the largest Mennonite settlement in Belize.
250:. It consists of more than 20 camps (German: "dörfer"), which have German names like "Blumenort" or "Hochfeld", but outside the Mennonite community they are referred to only by numbers, e. g. "Camp 5" instead of "Reinfeld". 18: 428: 338:
Friesen, David K. and John B. Loewen. "Shipyard Colony (Belize)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1989. Web. 23 February 2015.
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Friesen, David K. and John B. Loewen. "Shipyard Colony (Belize)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1989. Web. 23 February 2015.
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Mennonite ploughing fields with steel wheels in Shipyard
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17°53′N 88°37′W / 17.883°N 88.617°W / 17.883; -88.617
Mennonite ploughing fields with steel wheels in Shipyard
Shipyard is located in Belize
17°55′N 88°40′W / 17.917°N 88.667°W / 17.917; -88.667
Belize
District
Orange Walk District
Time zone
UTC-6
Central
Climate
Am
Mennonite
Orange Walk District
Belize
Old Colony Mennonites
Chihuahua
Durango
Mexico
Plautdietsch
Mennonites
Spanish Lookout
Blue Creek
Upper Barton Creek
Springfield
Mennonites in Belize
Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online: Shipyard Colony (Belize)


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