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Fonds arranged in the following series:
1) Correspondence/Personal Writing
2) Letters/General
3) Biographies and Autobiographies
4) Diaries
5) "And When They Shall Ask" Film
6) Societies - Mennonitische Fluechtlingsfuersorge, American Mennonite Relief, Mennonite Colonization Board, Emergency Relief Board, Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization
7) Manuscripts - filed by the author of the manuscript
8) Research Material
9) Mennonites in Ukraine 1900-1914
10) Karaganda Mennonite Brethren Church
11) Coaldale Church, Alberta
12) Maps Drawer 2 of Map Cabinet
13) Awards, Photographic Material, Films, Videotapes, DVDs
14) Karaganda Church
15) German War Documents
16) Photographs
17) Microforms
18) Non-resistance
19) Non-Resistance
20) Selbstschutz (Self- Defence)
21) Immigration and Emigration
22) Immigration Documents
23) Indexes of Mennonite Periodicals
24) Ephemora

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

Fonds consists of the following series:

1) Minutes, 1980 - (1 file) Box 198
2) Correspondence, 1955 - (1 file) Box 198
3) Reports, 1923 - (1 file) Box 198
4.1) Biography - B. Janz, 1877-1964 - (1 file) Box 198
4.2) Biography/Eulogy - David Schellenberg, 1852-1919 - (1 file) Box 198
4.3) Biography - Jacob Janz, 1912-2009 - (1 file) Box 198
4.4) Biography /Eulogy - Henry Toews, 1918-2005 - (1 file) Box 198
5) Immigration to Alberta, 1930 - (1 file) Box 198
6) Studies/Sermons (4), 1926, 1956-1957, N.D. - (1 file) Box 198
7) Gedenke Feier, 1945 - (1 file) Box 198
8) Land purchases - Coaldale, 1926-1951 - (1 file) Box 198
9) Vital Statistics, 1927-1947 - (1 file) Box 198
10) Lists - Ministers - Coaldale, AB, Sunday Worships - 1933 - (1 file) Box 198
11) Clippings - B.B. Janz, 1964 - (1 file) Box 198
12) Photographs

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.