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This series contains material such as minutes, reports, correspondence and financial records Friesen collected in his role as a deacon and in his role with the Armenkasse (fund for the poor) and the Wohltaetigkeitskomitee (welfare committee).

Part of Friesen’s business records are in this series. It includes selected material related to the telephone business, the role as postmaster, and the store he owned.

This series contains personal correspondence in his role as postmaster and in his various roles as a member of Bergthaler Mennonite church. There are letters from a variety of church leaders (e.g. Benjamin Ewert, Abraham Doerksen, Heinrich Doerksen, P.P. Tschetter, J. Horsch, D.P. Reimer and Peter A. Toews). The series contains his personal correspondence for the years 1929-1950. Church and personal letters are often mixed together. Many letters received by Friesen are from his children as well as from friends and acquaintances that were abroad (Paraguay, Mexico, etc.). Much of this correspondence was produced during the winter of 1929-1930 when Mr. and Mrs. Friesen were in California.

This collection contains seven series:
-1) Correspondence and church matters
-2) Bergthaler Mennonite Church Records
-3) Newspaper clippings
-4) Conference
-5) Business financial records
-6) Published pamphlets
-7) J.N. Hoeppner correspondence.
The majority of the material is correspondence relating to D.W. Friesen's personal life, church work (both local and on a conference level) and business. A significant portion of the collection also includes the correspondence of Reverend J.N. Hoeppner.

This series contains materials collected by Friesen in his capacity as Canadian Treasurer for the General Conference Mennonite Church's Board of Missions. There is some correspondence but most of the information is financial, including receipts and cancelled cheques.

This series of material contains considerable missions correspondence generated by Reverend J.N. Hoeppner, minister of the Bergthaler Mennonite church of Manitoba. He served on many committees such as the Canadian Conference Home Mission Committee, Mennonite Pioneer Mission, Board of Colonization, Manitoba Youth Organization and various music committees. The correspondence in this series reflects these involvements. Other correspondence with individuals and institutions include Benjamin Ewert, J.J. Thiessen, P. Vogt, D.H. Loewen, Henry Giesbrecht (regarding pacifism) and Grace Bible Institute.

This series contains an assortment of useful items in several folders and in a scrapbook. Most noteworthy are the clippings (1945-1950 and materials related to World War II and Mennonite Contentious Objector (CO) status in Canada. The clippings come from newspapers and magazines such as the Red River Valley Echo, Steinbach Post, Mennonite Weekly Review, and The Winnipeg Free Press. The clippings deal with religious issues and issues pertaining to the history of Mennonite in Canada and Latin America. Many of the history clippings deal with the emigration of Mennonites to Paraguay in 1948. There is also a file related the Echo Verlag series of historical books.

This series contains approximately seventy-five published booklets and pamphlets that deal with a wide range of Mennonite activity in Canada (and to a lesser extent in the United States and Russia) during the period from 1874-1950. Some of the items cover topics such as Contentious Objector status, Sommerfeld church private schools, catechisms, song books, Brandordnung, church membership questions, and Krimmer Mennonites. Some of the institutions covered include Mennonite Mutual Aid, Mennonite Educational Institute (Altona), and the Sommerfeld Waisenamt (a church mutual aid and trust fund institution). A few of the items are dated after D.W. Friesen died, indicating someone else added to this collection before it was donated to the archives. Some of the items are undated.