Cemeteries

Small graveliners

CA MHSBC 63-10-2010.008.004
Item
[after 1947]

Part of Greendale Cemetery fonds

Two small grave liners on roadway.

Sommerfeld Church, Capeland

CA MHSS 3.236-169
Item
ca.1950

Part of Cornelius Boldt Photo Collection

Country church and graveyard

Statue (monument) & gravestone for Johann Bartsch

CA MAO XV-19.3-1994-14-1832
Item
196-

Part of The Canadian Mennonite photograph collection

Used in CM 16-17-1. Statue (monument) & gravestone for Johann Bartsch, 18thC. Mennonite leader in Prussia & Russia. The monument was to be brought to Canada to the museum. C.f. 1994-14.1833.

Unknown

St.Boniface Basilica, taken while the fire which destroyed the interior was still being quenched

CA MAO XV-19.3-1994-14-2078
Item
1968

Part of The Canadian Mennonite photograph collection

Contact sheet of 12 6x6 photos of the St.Boniface Basilica, taken while the fire which destroyed the interior was still being quenched. Shots of the cemetery; #10 was used in CM 16-30-3, see 1994-14.2079.

Unknown

Steegen Cemetery

CA CMBS NP001-01-46
Item
[ca. 1973]

Part of Charlotte Wiebe Photograph Collection

This is a photo of the bottom part of a wooden cross with a shield attached to it at the Steegen Cemetery. Most of the writing on the shield is illegible, but the date "13. III. 1945" and the German words for "mourned and never forgotten" can be seen. The cemetery is overgrown with grass and trees.

Steinmetz Cemetery, Schoenek, Pa.

CA MAO 1987-5 56
Item
1983

Steinmetz Cemetery, Schoenek, Pa.

Millar, Doug

Steinmetz Cemetery, Schoenek, Pa.

CA MAO 1987-5 58
Item
1983

Steinmetz Cemetery, Schoenek, Pa.

Millar, Doug

Taken during MHSO bus tour in 1983

CA MAO 1988-5 18
Item
1983

Taken during MHSO bus tour in 1983

Millar, Doug

The First Mennonite Church cemetery, Vineland, Ontario

CA MAO HM1-64-1-14
Item
1965-08-04

Part of James Reusser photograph collection

The First Mennonite Church cemetery in Vineland, Ontario. On slide: "Moyer Church, Vineland, Old Cemetery"

The graveyard gate in Schoensee

CA CMBS NP149-1-6254
Item
[196-?]

Part of MB Herald Photograph Collection

This photo is of the gate to the Mennonite graveyard in Schoensee, Poland.

Dyck, Peter J., 1914-2010

The Mennonite Story photographs

CA MAO XV-32.8
File
[ca. 1950]

No information was acquired with these photographs. They may have been used for display purposes at The Mennonite Story. They appear to be taken at sites of Anabaptist and Mennonite historical interest in France, Switzerland or Germany, and North America.

The Mennonite Story, Inc.

The old Blair Cemetery, the first settler cemetery in Waterloo County, Ontario

CA MAO Hist.Mss. 10.28-DH-90
Item
1952

Part of David L. Hunsberger collection

The old Blair Cemetery, the first cemetery in Waterloo County, Ontario. June 1952. Hunsberger photo 71-15

Hunsberger, David L.

The Waldheim cemetery

CA MHC PP-2 Photos 688-93.0
Item
August 26, 2000

Part of Peter B. Paetkau fonds

In this photo the Waldheim Cemetery can be seen through a tour bus window. Some heads in the foreground contrast the white tombstones in the cemetery.

(Post Road Memorial Trail Tour marking 125th anniversary of Mennonites arriving at Fort Dufferin in 1875)

Paetkau, Peter, 1940-2011