Bergthaler Waisenamt (Aid Organization) records
- CA MHC ORG-5
- Series
- 1889, 1903-1907, 1914-1919, 1930-1953, 1955, 1965, 1967
This series consists of three big financial ledgers which record the assets, liabilities and cash on hand of the organization. The series also contains important files containing legal documents and correspondence relating to the dissolution of the Waisenamt. The Waisenamt was an organization originally set up to provide aid to widows and orphans and to distribute inheritance money and property. It had its beginnings with Mennonites in Prussia, however the institution proper came into being on August 31, 1792 in the Russian Mennonite colony of Chortitza. The institution was transported along with the immigrants in 1874 to Canada. In its later years it functioned also as a bank accepting deposits and offering mortgages.