Monuments & memorials

CA MHC PP-2 Photos 688-161.0
Item
[ca. 1982?]

In this photo David Froese and Dietrich Enns reveal the new cairn in honour of the Sperling Mennonite community's 50th anniversary.

Paetkau, Peter, 1940-2011

The unveiling

CA MHC PP-2 Photos 688-160.0
Item

Part of Peter B. Paetkau fonds

In this photo David Froese and Dietrich Enns reveal the new cairn in honour of the Sperling Mennonite community's 50th anniversary.

Paetkau, Peter, 1940-2011

The Fort Dufferin Cairn

CA MHC PP-2 Photos 688-77.0
Item
August 26, 2000

Part of Peter B. Paetkau fonds

In this photo the Fort Duffern cairn is shown, surrounded by a short black metal fence on the green field.

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

Paetkau, Peter, 1940-2011

Several people with the cairn in the background

CA CMBS NP117-01-25
Item
7 August 1963

Part of Abram A. Kroeker Photograph Collection

This is a photo of several people standing at the cairn.

Unknown

Russian Orthodox Church, Butovski Polygon, Russia

CA CMBS NP201-01-59
Item

Part of Mary Brieger Klassen Photograph Collection

This photo is of the Russian Orthodox Church located at the Butovski Polygon Memorial Centre in Moscow.

Reimer/Gurieva, Erika

Place of signing armistice - 1918

CA MHC 665-227.0
Item
[between 1920-1924]

Part of Arthur W. Slagel fonds (photograph collection)

This is a photo of a small number of people viewing a monument at the side of a tree lined street. It is identified by Arthur Slagel as the place where the World War I armistice was signed in 1918.

Negative also. A Peace Cairn erected in the

CA MAO XV-19.3-1994-14-351
Item
1965

Part of The Canadian Mennonite photograph collection

Negative also. A Peace Cairn erected in the International Peace Gardens on the Canadian/American border, sixteen miles south of Boissevain, Manitoba. Used in CM 13-43-1.

Epp, Frank H., 1929-1986

Monumento a Cristoforo Columbus, Genova

CA CMBS NP189-4-10
Item
193-?

Part of Margaret Suderman Photograph Collection

This postcard is of a statue erected as a monument to Christopher Columbus in Genoa, Italy.

Monument erected by 62 families of a Swiss Mennonite congregation in Kansas

CA MAO XV-19.3-2001-14-291
Item
1956

Part of The Canadian Mennonite photograph collection

Negative also & 9x9 copy of photo. Used in CM 4-3-2. Monument erected by 62 families of a Swiss Mennonite congregation.

Unknown

Memorial Stone for Christopher Dock

CA MAO 1988-5 24
Item
1983

Memorial Stone for Christopher Dock in Lower Skippack Mennonite Cemetery, south of Skippack Village, Pa.

Millar, Doug

J.H. Quiring, Clarence Hiebert, and A.A. Kroeker

CA CMBS NP117-01-20
Item
7 August 1963

Part of Abram A. Kroeker Photograph Collection

This is a photo of L-R: Jacob H. Quiring, Clarence Hiebert (holding the microphone stand), A.A. Kroeker at the cairn.

Unknown

J.H. Quiring shaking hands with A.A. Kroeker

CA CMBS NP117-01-23
Item
7 August 1963

Part of Abram A. Kroeker Photograph Collection

This is a photo of J.H. Quiring shaking hands with A.A. Kroeker at the unveiling a cairn. Three other people are standing with them.

Unknown

Hutterite Mennonite Centennial events

CA MHC 053-90.0
Item
1974

Part of Lawrence Klippenstein's Mennonite Memories book photos

This is a photo of the memorial cairn placed by Hutterite, Swiss and Low German groups, at Fensel Motel, on Highway 81, east of Freeman, South Dakota.