Cemeteries

CA CMBS NP001-01-45
Item
[ca. 1973]

Part of Charlotte Wiebe Photograph Collection

This is a photo of the Steegen Cemetery containing the graves of soldiers. There is a wooden cross with a shield on it at the front of the photo. Other crosses can be seen in the background. The cemetery is overgrown with grass and trees.

Graves with white crosses

CA MHC PP-Photo 726-010
Item
1930

Part of Anganeta Wiebe fonds

This is a photo of the graves of Peter Dyck and Hans Dyck, the young sons of Hans Dyck and Helena Dyck (Wiebe). There are other graves in the photo, all with a white cross.

Unknown

Gravestone of Abraham Friesen

CA MHC PP-12 Photo 511-212.0
Item
July 1982

Part of Helen Janzen fonds

This photo shows the gravestone of Abraham Friesen (1823-1903). He is buried in the Edenburg cemetery near Gretna, Manitoba. Abraham was Helen Janzen's Great Grandfather.

Gravestone of Christopher Dock

CA MAO Hist.Mss.10-2019-1-69
Item
1983

Part of Mennonite Archives of Ontario collection of photographs

The original gravestone for Christopher Dock in the Lower Skippack Mennonite Church cemetery

Millar, Doug

Gravestone of David & Margaret Toews

CA MAO XV-19.3-1992-14-1639
Item
1964

Part of The Canadian Mennonite photograph collection

Gravestone of David & Margaret Toews. See CM 12-12-1 & 15-24-31. He was an ordained elder in the Rosenort Mennonite Church, Sask. & Chair. of the CMBC, important in resettling Russian Mennonite in Canada. Taken July 2, 1964?

Unknown

Gravestone of Gerhard & Anna Ens

CA MAO XV-19.3-1992-14-39
Item
1964

Part of The Canadian Mennonite photograph collection

Gravestone of Gerhard & Anna. See ref. to him in CM, one of which is: CM 12-27-3. His biography is in CM 15-24-44. (In the book, Mennonite in Canada Vol.II, his part in raising money for relief & immigration is described.)

Gravestone of Isaac P. Friesen & his wife

CA MAO XV-19.3-1992-14-568
Item
195-

Part of The Canadian Mennonite photograph collection

Gravestone of Isaac P. Friesen & his wife Catharina. It is a wide & narrow stone in front of two cemetery plots.

Gravestone of Jacob Dettweiler

CA MAO 1987-1 228
Item
1930

At Dettweiler Cemetery, Roseville, Ontario. Jacob Dettweiler, a Mennonite minister who came from Montgomery County, Pa. in 1822 and settled near Roseville, Ont.

Detwiler, H.

Gravestone of Maria Friesen

CA MHC PP-12 Photo 511-213.0
Item
July 1982

Part of Helen Janzen fonds

This photo shows the gravestone of Maria Friesen (1831-1904). She is buried in the Edenburg cemetery near Gretna, Manitoba. She was Helen Janzen's great grandmother.

Unknown

Gravestone of Martha Berston

CA MHC 721-57-074
Item
[199-]

Part of CMC Native Ministries Photograph Collection

Martha Berston's gravestone in a cemetery in Matheson Island, Manitoba.

Unknown

Gravestone on Lot 8. South Erb's Rd. NW corner, Wilmot Twp.

Part of Lorraine Roth photographs of Mennonite properties in Waterloo Region and Oxford County

Close up view of white tombstone. Tombstone reads "Leah Schwartzentruber beloved wife of Joel Roy died Sept. 21, 1930 aged 73 yrs. 10 mos.". Roth notes "St. Agatha Mennonite Cemetery".

Brenneman, Helen

Gravestone, Cross Lake

CA MHC 721-12-52
Item
1997

Part of CMC Native Ministries Photograph Collection

A gravestone in the cemetery in Cross Lake, Manitoba. The stone is cracked across the middle. The stone reads, "In memoriam Mary Ann, daughter of Edward and Margaret Papanakis. Born Dec. 12, 1882, D. Mar. 6 1903."

Unknown

Gravestone, Riverside Cemetery, Wilmot Township

Part of Lorraine Roth photographs of Mennonite properties in Waterloo Region and Oxford County

Close up view of white tombstone, mounted on post supporting a roof. Roth notes "Peter Sommer tombstone transferred from New Hamburg Cemetery in 1930s to Riverside Cemetery southeast of town on southwest corner of pergola".

Schwartzentruber, Verna