Letters from Regehr and Bargen Clan
- CA MHC PP-1-Volume 4232
- Part
- 1930-1938
Teil vonBargen Letter Collection
Letters from Regehr and Bargen Clan
Teil vonBargen Letter Collection
Teil vonGerhard Priess family fonds
The letters are mostly concerned with the day-to-day activities of the writers, as well as events that might hold personal significance for them or for Peter; they mention everything from daily work and birthdays or funerals, to mass travel to Moscow for passports and the arrests of male family members by Russian authorities. Also included are a number of postcards that were sent to Peter in the 1930s, and a songbook belonging to Anna Janzen (1889-1977), Peter’s maternal aunt. The main letter writers include Brother Gerhard Priess (1898-1935), sister Katharina Priess (1903-1981) who moved to Nowo-Sibirsk, sister Maria Glasner (1911-1987) who moved to Nowo-Sibirsk, and cousin Käthe Dyck (1910-) who moved to Nowo-Sibirsk.
Glasner, Maria (Priess), 1911-1987
This fonds consists of letters written to Cornelius L. Plett by friends and family. They provide a valuable insight into the daily life in Mennonite village settlements in Canada, U.S., and Mexico in the first two decades of the twentieth century, as they discuss village and church dynamics, as well as personal issues and challenges of the writers. Most of these letters are written in the German Ghotic Script.
Plett, Cornelius L., 1846-1935
Johann and Maria Neufeld fonds
This fonds contains letters, photos, envelopes, postage stamps, and a school exam booklet from 1906 – 1907.
These letters are a valuable set of primary source documents for several reasons. They document a crucial chapter in the family history of Johann and Maria Neufeld over the time period from 1926 to 1979. In addition to that, these letters are a showcase for the stories that many other Mennonite families experienced through the 1920s migrations to Paraguay and Mexico. Most importantly, these letters give an outstandingly valuable insight into the daily life of the 1920s settlers in the Paraguayan Chaco and the moral and financial support these settlers got from their relatives that stayed in Canada.
Neufeld, Maria (Kroeker), 1870-1950
This fonds consists of 3 volumes of letters translated into English depicting life in Russia and the Soviet Union 1925-1978. In 1925 Anna Reimer's daughter, Katherina Enns and her husband Wilhelm Enns immigrated to Canada along with Anna's son's family, Johann and Kaethe Reimer. Anna and her other children remained in Russia, hoping also to move later but could not do so. This fonds consists of the letters the family members in Canada received, documenting the situation in the Soviet Union. The letters were translated by Katherina and Wilhelm Enns' children Con Enns and Elizabeth Enns, her husband Edward Enns and daughter Ruth Enns. "Katherina Enns and Johann Reimer left behind in Russia their sisters Anna Epp, Mariechen Reimer, Margareta Enns, Susanna Reimer, Elisabeth Teichroeb, and a brother Dietrich Reimer and their mother Anna (Peters) Riemer."
Teichroeb, Elisabeth (Reimer), 1890-1978
Fonds consists of letters sent from family and friends in South Russia to Peter Priess in Manitoba in the late 1920s and early 1930s. and photographs. The letters are mostly concerned with the day-to-day activities of the writers, as well as events that might hold personal significance for them or for Peter; they mention everything from daily work and birthdays or funerals, to mass travel to Moscow or passports and the arrests of male family members by Russian authorities. Also included are a number of postcards that were sent to Peter in the 1930s, and a songbook belonging to Anna Janzen, Peter’s maternal aunt.
Priess, Gerhard, 1865-1920
Abram and Aganetha (Reimer) Friesen family fonds
This fonds consists of two sections of letters which Jacob and Sara Braun received from the Friesen family. The first section dated 1921 to 1938 were received from the Friesen family in Ogus Tobe, Crimea, first while living in Tiegenhagen (Ukraine) and then after 1925 while living at Ste. Elizabeth, Manitoba. The second section dated 1956 to 1982 are letters written mainly by Helene Dueck, Renate Dueck, Peter Friesen and Anna Wall in the Soviet Union to Jacob and Sara Braun in Manitoba. The letters are arranged chronologically by year. The letters provide a view of how one immigrant family to Canada remained in contact with the family members left in the home country. They also provide a view of how one family experienced life in the Soviet Union from 1921 to 1982.
Friesen family (Descendants of Abram *1870)
Letters from Johann Bartsch and Johann Epp to David Epp
Teil vonJacob D. Epp family fonds
Bartsch, Johann, 1757-1821
Belize consignment Letter from John R. Dueck to ? Date?
Teil vonEvangelical Mennonite Conference (Kleine Gemeinde) Fonds
Letter from John R. Dueck to ? Date unknown. Photocopy of handwritten, German original.
Teil vonEvangelical Mennonite Conference (Kleine Gemeinde) Fonds
Letters: "Words of Truth in Love on all the Mennonites in the Molotschna." B. Harder, July 15. A collection of letters to Peter Toews - Abraham L. Friesen. Peter Toews to his brother, Cornelius Toews upon his return from America. Abraham Klassen - An exte
Toews, Peter, 1841-1922
Belize consignment To Heinrich Friesen from Abraham L. and Anna Friesen
Teil vonEvangelical Mennonite Conference (Kleine Gemeinde) Fonds
Letter to Heinrich Friesen from Abraham L. and Anna Friesen. December 15, 1892. Photocopy of handwritten, German original.
Friesen, Abraham L., 1831-1917
Christmas Program request J.S. Guenther 1922
Teil vonEvangelical Mennonite Conference (Kleine Gemeinde) Fonds
Christmas Program request forms and parents answers. December 1. Handwritten originals.
Belize consignment To Heinrich Friesen from Abraham L. and Anna Friesen
Teil vonEvangelical Mennonite Conference (Kleine Gemeinde) Fonds
Letter to Heinrich Friesen from Abraham L. and Anna Friesen. June 11, 1891. Photocopy of handwritten, German original.
Friesen, Abraham L., 1831-1917
Belize consignment Letter fragment from A.L. Friesen to ?
Teil vonEvangelical Mennonite Conference (Kleine Gemeinde) Fonds
Letter fragment from A.L. Friesen to ? Date unknown. Photocopy of handwritten, German original.
Friesen, Abraham L., 1831-1917
Belize consignment Letter to H. Ratzlaff from Johann and Marg Esau, Hochstadt
Teil vonEvangelical Mennonite Conference (Kleine Gemeinde) Fonds
Letter to H. Ratzlaff from Johann and Marg Esau, Hochstadt. June 18, 1890. Photocopy of handwritten, German original.