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Elmon Bender fonds

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.342
  • Fonds
  • 1942-1943

Photographs of camp life and work at Montreal River Alternative Service work camp by conscientious objectors ("COs") during the winter of 1942-1943, a homemade calendar for 1942 featuring a picture of the camp, and a colourized photograph of the camp framed with birch bark.

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Cornelius C. and Eliesabeth Penner family photograph collection

  • CA MAO Digital 185
  • Fonds
  • 1924-1949

Cornelius C. Penner and Eliesabeth "Liese" (Baergen) Penner were both born in south Russia and immigrated to Canada in 1924. In 1925, he purchased the east half of Lot 7, Concession 3 in the Township of Eilber. Thus the family joined the Mennonite settlement of Reesor, Ontario. The couple had 7 children, 5 of whom survived infancy. In 1927, their son Cornelius Jr. (Neil) secured the adjoining lot (west half of Lot 7, Con. 3). Cornelius Sr. died in 1939; Eliesabeth and her children settled in the Niagara area beginning in 1943. The fonds consists of photographs of family and community life in Reesor, as well as some photographs of the immigration journey in 1924 undertaken by Neufeld relatives.

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Immigration lists fonds

  • CA MHSBC 178
  • Fonds
  • 1956-1957

This fonds consists of the following series:
1) Lists - Paraguayan Mennonite Emigrants. This is a bound, handwritten book containing the family names, number of people traveling, colony of origin, and their destination in Canada (name & address). Also includes a short list of families who returned to Paraguay. - 1956 & 1957 (1 File) Box 373

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Deutsch-Kazun Mennonite Church fonds

  • CA MHSBC 140
  • Fonds
  • 1821-1965

Fonds is arranged in the following series:
1) Vital Statistics - baptismal records, family registers, birth records, death records, church records, church leaders, immigration records, travel documents and registration forms - (13 files) Box 296
2) Vital Statistics - Polish language documents - (2 files) English translation of birth certificates - (1 file) Box 296
3) Photographs
4) Miscellaneous - Gameo article "Deutsch Kazun (Poland)", 2010; GenWiki article "Einwanderungszentralstelle (EWZ) Antraege", 2010; article" Perpetuating the memory of the Victims of Repression", 2008; Birth & Baptism records for Eugen Schroeder (b. 1933) & Heinrich Schroeder (b. 1913) - (1 file) Box 296

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Katharina (Kaethe) Peters fonds

  • CA MHSBC 196
  • Fonds
  • 1940-1973

The fonds consists of the following series:
1) Correspondence, miscellaneous items dated between 1946-1973 - (1 file) Box 433
2) Clippings: original English newspapers including the following: Daily Express, September 12, 1940, Daily Herald, September 16, 1940 & Sunday Times, April 20, 1941 - (1 file) Box 433

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