 Although a communal pasture for cattle was maintained for some decades after this, the end of the linear settlement meant the end of the traditional communal lifestyle of the Mennonites in this area, but also opened the area up to greater capitalist enterprise.In 1911, the Kleine Gemeinde church, who had met in the village school up until this point, constructing a building on the south end of the village.In 1912, J.R. Friesen opened a Ford auto dealership in town, which was the first Ford dealership in Western Canada.