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Archival description
Evangelical Mennonite Conference (Kleine Gemeinde) Fonds Collection
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Congregations

This collection contains records from over 50 EMC congregations that exist (or have existed) in Canada plus some exploratory reports about potential church locations. The congregations have been grouped into 9 regions in Canada.

EMC

The EMC Collection has been intellectually arranged into 14 series following the “Evangelical Mennonite Conference Archives Classification Code".
The Conference structures evolved from most decision making done by the congregational ministerial to a broader organization with greater lay involvement. In 1960, the formation of the Conference Council and the Conference boards and committees was introduced to aid with administrative decisions. Elected delegates from each congregation, together with ordained ministers and deacons, made up the council. A subsequent administrative revision occured in 1972.
See the 2014 EMC Yearbook p. 49 for the organizational structure at the time that the records were transferred to the Mennonite Heritage Archives.
The series are:

    1. General – vital statistics, constitutions, membership handbooks, etc.
    1. Conventions and Conferences
    1. Board of Education and Publication (formerly Study Committee on Education
    1. Board of Finance (and former Trustee Committee) / Board of Trustees
    1. Board of Missions
    1. Estates Committee
    1. General Board (formerly Conference Executive)
    1. Ministerial Examination and Placement Committee
    1. Music Committee
    1. Nominating Committee
    1. Social Concerns Committee
  • 12 Youth Committee
    1. Temporary Committees
    1. Historical

Mennonites in Manitoba

This collection of archival resources about Mennonites in Manitoba was organized into 8 different categories (series):

  • 1) Immigration
  • 2) Early settlement (1874-1900)
  • 3) Anniversary programs
  • 4) Mennonite Centennial & 125th
  • 5) Years 1900-1925
  • 6) Years 1925-1950
  • 7) Years 1950-
  • 8) Mennonite Heritage

Newspapers

This collection contains a variety of newspapers and other periodicals collected by the EMC Archives. They include copies of:

  • Der Norwesten Kalendar
  • Steinbach Post
  • Mennonitische Rundschau
  • Mennonite Life
  • Red River Valley Echo
  • Winnipeg Free Press
  • The Carillon
  • Canadian Mennonite
  • and others

Other Historial Materials

This collection has been organized into 4 categories (series):
1) a box containing audio recordings of several public events
2) records of family reunions and associated genealogical records
3) Theses and dissertations (13 items)
4) Local school and municipal records, and maps.

Persons

This collections holds archival items that persons have contributed to the EMC Archives. The materials have been classified usually by the name of the donor or collector, and occassionally by the name of a corporate body or creator of the materials. The classified "Name" was also assigned a number sequentially as the collections were processed and appears in parenthesis after the name. There are over 70 names under which the "Persons" archival collection has been classified. The content ranges from family papers, church records, school and community records, diaries and financial accounts and other historical writings.

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