Item 2 - Historic Peace Church Council of Canada meeting

This item shows a group picture of approximately fifty delegates, representing Mennonite Church groups, Conferences, and service organizations, who met at the Elmwood Mennonite Brethren Church in Winnipeg. The four service and relief organizations represented in the meeting called by the Historic Peace Church Council of Canada were the Board of Colonization, the Mennonite Central Relief Committee, the Canadian Mennonite Relief Committee, and the Non-Resistant Relief Committee. They met to coordinate Mennonite Disaster Service on a national basis. See the Canadian Mennonite, 2 October 1959 and the Mennonitische Rundschau 7 October 1959. Front (l-r): William Ens (Winkler), C. Wilbert Loewen (Winnipeg), Cornelius J. Rempel (Kitchener), Elwin Schantz (Kitchener), J.B. Martin (Waterloo), Bishop E.J. Swalm (Waterloo), Aeltester David Reimer (Lorette, Manitoba), David P. Neufeld (Rosemary, Alberta), Cornelius A. DeFehr (Winnipeg), J. Gerbrandt (Saskatoon), H.F. Klassen (Winnipeg). Middle (l-r): Arnold Fast, __, _, __, Vernon Reimer, _, Bill Wiebe, Harvey Taves, __, P.W. Brandt (Rosenort, Manitoba), Waldemar Janzen. Back (l-r): A.A. Froese, Ted Friesen, Roland Reimer?, __, Archie Penner, , __, Jake Doerksen (Gem, Alberta),, , Frank C. Peters, C. Dueck (Rosenort, Manitoba)?, __, __, Kroeker (Elm Creek)?, , Ben Hoeppner, John A. Toews, H.P. Toews, , _____, Waldo Lepp (Dalmeny).