Al Reimer fonds Reimer, Al, 1927-2015 This fonds consists of materials regarding the life and work of Dr. Elmer Edger Ernest Reimer [“Al Reimer"], a scholar, a professor in the English Department of United College—the University of Winnipeg, a novelist, a writer of short stories and many articles, an historian, a stalwart Mennonite, a traveller, very involved in the Arts, and devoted to his family. The fonds is divided into eleven series: 1. Personal: early years and family, most correspondence, and the later years 2. Student days 3. University-teaching years 4. Low-German: the language, works, and writers 5. Research for Writing his Novel My Harp is Turned to Mourning and for his collection of short stories, Kleindarp 6. Drafts of Al Reimer’s novel My Harp is Turned to Mourning (1985) 7. Al Reimer’s transcription, editing, and translations work with A Russian Dance of Death (1977), No Strangers in Exile (1979), and Arnold Dyck’s works (1989) 8. Literature 9. Interest and Involvement in the Arts other than Literature 10. Al Reimer as a Leader of Tours to Europe and Russia (USSR) 11. Manuscripts sent to Al Reimer by other writers 1917-2015 3.2 meters of textual records and some photographs. https://archives.mhsc.ca/al-reimer-fonds PP eng deu nds https://archives.mhsc.ca/mennonite-heritage-centre Mennonite Heritage Archives Some restrictions may apply