The Holland Marsh consists of 7,000 acres of reclaimed land in the Schomberg River Valley. Once thought to be nothing more than a swamp of snakes and muskrats, the Holland Marsh was named for Major J.A. Holland. It was first drained in 1927 and it's 2,830 hectares is now considered some of the best farmland in Ontario. John Snor, Canadian represenative of the Netherlands Emigration Foundation, visited the sparsely settled marsh and proposed the relocation here of recent Dutch immigrants in Ontario. Assisted by grants from the Netherlands, Canada and Ontario, fifteen Dutch families many from Friesland and Gronigen originally, settled on the marsh in 1934 and formed the nucleus of the community of Ansnorvelot. Later, Dutch farmers settled throughout the marsh , through skilled farming practice and co-operative management, the Dutch were the first group successfully to develop the marsh as one of Ontario's most important vegetable growing districts. View a recent article by Osprey Press for Our Greenbelt on the Holland Marsh. Photo gallery for: Holland Marsh and Ansnorveldt.

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