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a collection of the articles PJB Reimer wrote for his German-language news column in The Scratching River Post in Morris, MB, as newspaper clippings and photocopied. [Translated as: All manner of things in the German corner.]

photocopy of a transcribed diary that does not name its author or its transcriber. It begins in Rosenfeld, Borozenko Colony, Russia. [It was likely written by a member of PJB Reimer’s family before he or she emigrated to Canada: Klaas Reimer and Martin Barkman are mentioned, and others]

a notebook with one poem by PJB Reimer and two accounts of the teaching opportunities that were offered to him—from Greenbank to Meade, KS, to MCI in Gretna to Rosthern, SK, and Grunthal, MB. He accepted the offer to teach high school in Grunthal, where he indicates that he “enjoyed that new position very much, because it was interesting, challenging, and appreciated by the people of Grunthal.”

this file begins with one page of detailed notes “Kleine Gemeinde background” and about John Holdeman with much pertinent information; some articles PJB Reimer wrote for his “Historical Notes” column; also includes a collection of notes about EMC bishops and ministers, a tally sheet of votes in an election of deacons, 1918, another collection of notes about individuals (bishops, ministers, and others), and an envelope inscribed as “Etwas uber Schulle aus die Kleine Gemeinde der Einwanderung aus Russland. Auch von Bruder____ …auch einige wahlen…bis Ende das Jahres 1924” that contains 14 pages titled “Diener Wahlen” (some words are illegible); a page “from Is. Toews’ book” that lists ministers and deacons elected in Blumenhoff, Borosenko, Jekatrinslaw (Ekaterinoslav) in 1873, and in Molotschna and Crimea, 1873; a letter from Clarence Hiebert

PJB Reimer’s articles about the coming of the Mennonites to Manitoba, and their background

a column in 4 parts, published in the Carillon

correspondence, program, statutes, minutes, and a booklet of poems Gedichte und Verschen fuer die Kleinen zum Grebrauch in Schule und Heim

a report published in 30 November 1938 issue of the Steinbach Post by PJB Reimer, minutes and membership lists.

30 issues of Steinbach Post of the column written by Klaas J.B. Reimer (1897-1966) about the East Reserve from the 1870s on; 1964-1965.
[This file is included here as a bridge between the themes of writing and history, and because PJB collected, and thus valued, his brother’s published column.]

close to 200 columns highlighting Mennonite families of the 1970s migration; the first half were written by Lawrence Klippenstein and the second by Elizabeth Bergen for the Red River Valley Echo

clippings of Toews’s articles from The Carillon, preceded by a letter from Toews regarding a letter by Susan Hiebert to the editor of the Winnipeg Free Press in May 1972, and about a book being compiled by the Women’s Auxiliary of the Mennonite Village Museum

”: PJB Reimer’s accounts of his trip to the Mennonite World Conference in Europe in 1952, in German and in English in two collections of his articles typed up for his columns: one collection called “Rosenort-Rom” wrapped in the April 15, 1953, issue of Die Post and an additional pages from the June 17 issue, and the other called “Rosenort to Rome” with a page from The Altona Echo, July 15, 1953

reports, agendas, minutes, and correspondence of the school variously called Steinbach Bible Academy, Steinbach Bible College, and Steinbach Bible Institute, with a one-page history by PJB Reimer (file left intact as organized by him.)