The fonds consists of a series of 43 letters written by Alexander John Fast & Katharina Penner between May 1920 and May 1921. The letters are compiled, transcribed and translated by Katharine (Fast) Harder, David Alexander (David) Fast & Frieda Fast. These, along with additional commentary, are organized into a volume called "Letters, The Correspondence between Alexander John Fast, also known as Sasha or Cama in the Russian alphabet, who lived in the Kuban, Russia, and Katharina Penner, known as Katja, who lived in Millerowo, Russia, dating May 1920 to the time of their wedding, 08 May 1921." USB Memory Stick included. - (1 file) Box

The file contains the following items:
1.1) B.B. Janz Travel documents for the Canadian Pacific Railway Lines and receipts for travel taken contained in a small wallet.
B.B. Janz Identity Card issued by the Verband der Buerger Hollaendischer Herkunft in der Ukraine, issued June 22, 1924.
1.2) Jacob P. Becker Poem "Aussang und Fortgang der Mennoniten Bruedergemeinde-, 5 pages,1 file (Box 241)
1.3) Sermons and Ecclesiastical Affairs - 1 file (Box 241)
1.4) John P. Isaac correspondence with B.B. Janz regarding the Harbin immigrants of 1926 - 1 file (Box 241)
1.5) Letters to B.B. Janz, Peter Baerg - 1 file (Box 241)
1.6) Letters to B.B. Janz from daughter Helen Janz Thiessen - 1963-1964 - 1 file (Box 241)
1.7) The Land Question, 1923. Soviet of the People's Commissars of the Ukranian Socialist Republic correspondence with B.B. Janz , P.F. Froese, C.F. Klassen and others. Translated Russian Language Materials from the A.A. Friesen Collection, North Newton, Kansas. Handwritten notes by John B. Toews are included. 1 file (Box 241)
1.8) Russian Mennonite Documents, 1922-1924. Brief translations from Russian language into English. War Reparations, Emigration Movement, B.B. Janz Correspondence. - 1 file (Box 241)
1.9) Mennonite Emigration, 1921-1922, Russian Rules and Regulations. Minutes of the All-Russian Central Committee, 1921. Correspondence of B.B. Janz - 1 file (Box 241)
1.10) Mennonite Emigration, 1923-1925. Russian regulations imposed on Mennonites in the Russian language...abbreviated translations into English. Extensive correspondence with B.B. Janz - 1 file (Box 241)
1.11) Reports and Newspaper articles; 1921-1925. Hollenders by F. Mossenko with translation. Articles from "Communist" Newspaper, 1924; "Die Arbeit" 1924. - 1 file (Box 241)

Series consists of the following files:
1) Correspondence regarding Choice Books.

Series consists of the following files:
1) Correspondence - 1975-1983 - (4 files) - (1 file) - Box 9

Series consists of the following files:
1) Constitution - 1936-1987, 2001 - (1 file) - Box 1
2) Constitution Correspondence - 1983-1984 - (1 file) - Box 1

Series consists of the following files:
1) Executive Correspondence 1940 -1998 - (6 files) Box 88
2) Board of Trustees 1963 -1972 - (1 file) Box 88
3) Board of Management 1963 -1979 - (3 files) Box 88
4) Board of Reference & Council 1973 - 1994 - (15 files) Boxes 88 & 89
5) Board of Church Extension -1967-1992 - (44 files) Boxes 89 & 90

The series contains the following files:
1) Executive, 1985-1995 - (7 files)
2) Fresno, 1977-1990 - (1 file)
3) Columbia Bible College - (1 file)
4) Higher Learning, 1988-1990, 1993 - (1 file)

Series consists of the following files:
1) Bethel Bible Institute - 1942-1976 - (8 files) - Box 163
2) Mennonite Brethren Bible Institute - 1955-1985 - (files1-7) Box 163; (files 8-18) - Box 164
3) Columbia Bible Institute - 1971-1985 - (files 1-18) - Box 165; (files 19-22) - Box 166
4) Columbia Bible College - 1977-1991, 2023 - (12 files) Box 166

The series consists of the following files:
1) Board of Faith and Life, 1968-1988; Jacob Redekop and D.B. Wiens, 1976-1992. Includes three (3) papers listed in the Notes section below. - (2 files) Box 472
2) Christian Week, 1980, 1987-1997, 1999 - (2 files) Box 472
3) Education - Wilfred Laurier University, 1979, 1988, 1990,1994, 2000, 2009, 2011, N.D. - (1 file) Box 472
4) Ethnicity Agencies, 1985-1986, N.D. - (1 file) Box 472
5) Kindred Press, 1985-1987 - (1 file) Box 472
6) Immigration, 1908-1922 - (1 file) Box 472
7) Legal, 1917-1918 - (1 file) Box 472
8) MB Herald - Personal Opinion, 1963, 1970, 1972 2017, N.D. - (7 files) Box 472
9) Miscellaneous letters, 1917, 1962, 1968, 1974, 1981, 1984-1989, 1991-1994, 1996-1997, 2002-2003, 2007-2008. Includes two (2) papers listed in the Notes section below. - (4 files) Box 472
10) Personal Opinion, 1988-1996 - (2 files) Box 472
11) Ph.D Items - University of Washington, 1962-1968 - (1 file) Box 472
12) MCC - Eastern Europe trip, 1965-1966 - (1 file) Box 472

Series consists of the following files:
1) Correspondence - 1945-1975, 1977 - (7 files) - Box 131-132
2) MEI Correspondence - 1971-1975 - (1 file) - Box 132
3) Missionary Correspondence - 1970-1975 - (3 files) - Box 132

Series consists of the following files:

1) Chilliwack District - 1981-1982- (1 file) - Box 146
2) Christian Education - 1974-1976 - (1 file) - Box 146
3) Christian Service Brigade - 1973-1981 - (1 file) - Box 146
4) Christian Revival Fellowship - 1972-1974 - (1 file) - Box 146
5) Church Members - 1969-1970 - (1 file) - Box 146
6) Church Deacons - 1978 - (1 file) - Box 146
7) Columbia Bible Camp - 1977 - (1 file) - Box 146
8) Conscientious Objectors WWll - 1944 - (1 file) - Box 146
9) Department of Highways - 1968, 1970 - (1 file) - Box 146
10) Department of Social Welfare - 1959, 1963 - (1 file) - Box 146
11) Evangelism - 1961-1986 - (1 file) - Box 146
12) Institute of Basic Youth - 1974 - (1 file) - Box 146
13) Interchurch Softball - 1971-1973 - (1 file) - Box 146
14) Ladies Aid - 1960-1975 - (1 file) - Box 146
15) Columbia Bible Institute 1963, 1971-1977,1982 - (1 file) - Box 146
16) MB Bible College - 1961-1985 - (1 file) - Box 146
17) MB Biblical Seminary - 1964-1985 - (1 file) - Box 146
18) Bethany Bible Institute - 1964, 1974 - (1 file) - Box 146
19) MEI - 1971-1977 - (1 file) - Box 146
20) Pacific College - 1961 - (1 file) - Box 146
21) Tabor Home Society - 1982 - (1 file) - Box 146
22) Bethel Chinese MB Church - 1982-1983, 1986 - (1 file) - Box 146
23) Youth Alliance Church - 1978 - (1 file) - Box 146
24) Youth Committee - 1971-1976 - (1 file) - Box 146
25) 60th Anniversary - 1989 - (1 file) - Box 146
26) Vital Statistics - 1968 - (1 file) - Box 146
27) Vacation Bible School - 1971-1973, 1977 - (1 file) - Box 146
28) Sunday School - 1965-1983 - (1 file) - Box 146
29) School District #33 - 1978 - (1 file) - Box 146
30) College Correspondence - 1972-1975 - (1 file) - Box 146
31) Radio Programs - 1944-1966, 1975 - (1 file) - Box 146
32) Pioneer Girls - 1971-1976 - (1 file) - Box 146
33) Mennonite Historical Society - 1978 - (1 file) - Box 146
34) Offering - 1961 - (1 file) - Box 146
35) MB Communications - 1981-1985 - Box 146
36) MCC - 1961, 1972-1973 - (1 file) - Box 146
37) Pastoral - 1929-1989 - (12 files) - Box 146-147

Series consists of the following files:
1) Correspondence - Johannes A. Harder With Sisters and Others - 1933-1955, 1962,
2) Correspondence - Johannes A. Harder With Brothers & Sisters - 1933, 1936, 1942, N.D.
3) Correspondence - Johannes A. Harder With Wife and Children - 1955
4) Correspondence - Johannes A. Harder With B B Janz - 1937-1957
5) Correspondence - Johannes A. Harder With Mission Board Volume 1 - 1944-1956
6) Correspondence - Johannes A. Harder With Mission Board Volume 2 - 1957-1966
7) Correspondence - Jacob A Loewen - 1992-2001
8) Correspondence - 1999-2000
9) Correspondence - 2001

Series consists of the following files:
1) General - (5 files) 1964-2004 Box 28
2) Pioneer Girls - (1 file) 1988-1995 Box 28
3) DVBS - (1 file) 1965 Box 28
4) Bethel Bible Institute - (1 file) 1965-1969 Box 28
5) BC Youth Organization - (1 file) 1960-1973 Box 28
6) Pastoral Search - (1 file) 1975 Box 28
7) MCC - (1 file) 1988- 1995 Box 28
8) Tri Church - (1 file) 1997-2004 Box 28
9) Merging with Living Hope - (1 file) 2004-2005 Box 28
10) Eve Unrau - (1 file) 2003-2004 Box 28
11) Clare Neufeld - (1 file) 1994-2002 Box 28

Series consists of the following files:
1) General Correspondence - 1936-2011 (47 files) Boxes 65-67
2) Donations - 1959-1976 - (1 file) Box 67
3) Mennonite Educational Institute (MEI) 1984-1987 - (1 file) Box 67
4) Jake Thielmann - 1998-2002 - (1 file) Box 67
5) David Friesen - 1990-1996 - (1 file) Box 67
6) Paul Boschman - 1985-1988 (3 files) Box 67
7) Dick Rempel - 1972-1981 - (1 file) Box 68
8) Stan Martens - 1988-1990 - (1 file) Box 68
9) Terry & Karen Zimmerly - 1988-1993 - (1 file) Box 68
10) Egon Warkentin - 1992-1993 - (1 file) Box 68
11) Peter & Mary Derksen - 1958-1999 - (1 file) Box 68
12) Neil & Ruth Wiebe - 1969-1997 - (1 file) Box 68
13) Allen & Elsiana Harder - 1973-1997 - (1 file) Box 68
14) Doreen Wall - 1983-1992 - (1 file) Box 68
15) Missionary - Various - 1957-1992 - (1 file) Box 68
16) Elizabeth Bergen Immigration - 1960-1966 - (1 file) Box 68
17) Membership Transfers - 1968-1979 (1 file) Box 68

This file contains the following correspondence:
1) Eight letters from Consul General de Trefurt to His excellency the Chancellor of the Empire of Prussia requesting permission of Mennonites of Danzig to emigrate to Russia in 1802-1893. 8 pages. See notes.
2) Peter Hildebrand papers - Erste Auswanderung der Mennoniten aus dem Danziger Gebiet nach Russland, 1876, 20 pages - (1 file) Box 256