Here is the webpage for Micah Schmuland.
Most families have a story explaining their origins and the Schmulands are no exception.
The details are unknown, but many years ago a group of Swedes left there because of political trouble. Or so the story goes. It is said that Andreas fought in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, and received distinction for his service. In any case, by 1885 Andrew had decided that he couldn't settle in Russia and hearing that Canada was the place of the future, he decided to emigrate. Andrew left behind him his father who had a few acres of his own and who lived into his nineties, and some brothers who, as far as we know, never followed Andrew to the new world.