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Picnic at Fairview Mennonite Home in Preston (Cambridge, Ontario). Some of those pictured are Wanner seniors.

Picnic at Fairview Mennonite Home in Preston (Cambridge, Ontario). Some of those pictured are Wanner seniors.

Sunday School tour at McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario.

The photo is identified as the McMichael Art Gallery. In 1966 the private home gallery and land of Signe and Robert McMichael were donated to the Province of Ontario. The gallery was named the McMichael Conservation Collection of Art. It has since been renamed the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.

Wanner Sunday School tour meeting with A. Y. Jackson, age 87, at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in 1969 or 1970.

A. Y. Jackson was one of the original Group of Seven artists. He lived at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in his final years.

Amigo Sewing Circle Party sign at the Wanner church, March 1968. The handwritten sign reads:

"Welcome to the Pig and Whistle Coffee
Produced by the Stevanus
Directed by the Derksens
And Starring - Richard and Dianne Stevanus!
Erv and Marnie Derksen!
with Special Guest - Bette Mae Couroux"

Amigo sewing circle party in March 1968. Photo is captioned: "All is green at the tables."

A Christmas performance by Eben's boys' class in 1968. Pictured from left to right: Murray Bechtel, Phillip Schiedel, Edward Burkhart.

Marnie Derksen and her Sunday School class in 1967.

Amigo sewing circle baby shower gifts on March 4th, 1970.

Wanner Mennonite Church in Preston, Ontario on December 8th, 1968.

The first year of the Wanner Vacation Bible School, 1933; 260 children were enrolled.

The 15 staff members of the first Wanner Vacation Bible School in 1933. Photo includes Simon and Betty Kanagy.

This plaque was erected in 1963 to commemorate the first Mennonite Sunday School in North America, which was established in 1840. The plaque reads: "First Mennonite Sunday School. The first Mennonite Sunday School to be established in America was in Waterloo County, in 1840, in the Wanner and Bechtel, now Preston, meetinghouses. In October, 1941, der Deutsche Kanadier reported, 'The Sunday School started last year and begun anew this year which has been held interchangeably in the Wanner and Bechtel meetinghouses --- is enjoying good progress. The number of children is increasing and amounted to seventy-five last Sunday.' Erected in 1963 by Wanner Mennonite Church and Waterloo County Historical Society."

Grades 7 and 8 vacation bible school students in 1966 at Maple Grove School

Vacation Bible School students in a music group.