BOLIVIA. Alberta Colony. 2002. One of David Braun's daughters hangs laundry on a line. The new Alberta Colony was established in 1997 by 40 Mennonite families from western Canada who bought 10,000 hectares of land in Bolivia for half a million dollars. They came to resist secular culture and modernism. Today, only 18 families remain in Alberta Colony. Most of the others have returned to Canada rather than suffer malnutrition.