- CA MHSBC 109
- Fonds
- 1976
Fonds consists of the following series:
1) Biography - (1 file) Box 229
2) Publication - 1976 A Festival of Sacred Music - (1 file) Box 229
3) Photograph
Toews, David, 1870-1947
Fonds consists of the following series:
1) Biography - (1 file) Box 229
2) Publication - 1976 A Festival of Sacred Music - (1 file) Box 229
3) Photograph
Toews, David, 1870-1947
Cornelius Franz (C.F.) Klassen fonds
Fonds is arranged in the following series:
1) Diaries, November/December 1947 - (1 file) Box 199
2) Correspondence, 1947 (3 files) - Box 199
3) Minutes & Reports, 1946-1956 - (1 file) Box 199
4) Financial Records, 1950, 1954 - (1 file) Box 199
5) Reports, 1926-1954 - (1 file) Box 199
6) Research Material, 1936-1954 - (4 files) Box 199
7) Board of Colonization, 1931-1935, 1947 - (3 files) Box 199
8) Reiseschuld, 1939 - (1 file) Box 199
9) Sir Edward Beatty Visit to Coaldale, AB - 1937 - (1 file) Box 199
10) Personal Meditations, Herb Klassen - (1 file) Box 199
11) Clippings - (1 file) Box 199
12) Photographs (including photocopies) - (1 file) Box 199
13) Ephemera - (1 file) Box 199
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This fonds consists primarily of correspondence, official negotiations, and memos of the Studienkommission (1920-1921), the study commission sent to North America by Mennonites in Russia to investigate immigration possibilities; and of the Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization (1922-1926), founded to facilitate the immigration. There is extensive correspondence between Friesen and David Toews, Benjamin H. Unruh, Benjamin B. Janz, Peter H. Unruh, and other Mennonite leaders.
Several files deal with the case of "the 62", sixty two young male Mennonite refugees who left Russia for the United States via Constantinople in the early 1920s.
Some genealogical material for Russian Mennonite emigrants for the 1920s can be found here. The "notebooks" folder includes Friesen's passport and diaries.
Friesen, Abram A., 1885-1948