This fonds contains oral interviews gathered on the subject of labour history from the view of Mennonite business owners and Mennonite employees and well as the history of Westgate Mennonite Collegiate in Winnipeg. The workers were selected from different gender and social classes. The content formed the basis for Thiessen's thesis on labour history of Russian Mennonites, a book on unions, and history of the private Mennonite high school, Westgate.
This fonds consist of the materials which Tony Enns acquired as a participant with the Friends of Plautdietsch scriptures. They include e-mail and in-person consultations about the orthography to use in the revision and translation of the scriptures for Low German Mennonites. There are also reports, sample translations, budgets, signed agreements and a few newspaper clippings.
This fonds consists of 10 audio cassette tapes containing 38 episodes of "Mennonitengeschichte", Mennonite history stories in Low German by Henry Dueck and aired on Casa Siemens (Bram Siemens) radio in Manitoba Colony, Cuauhtemoc, Mexico. Henry produced these while he was teaching at the Steinreich Bible School in Manitoba colony, Mexico. See AC# 5261-5270.
This fonds consists of the memoirs of Artur Laser, a German Baptist Christian, who moved into a Mennonite community as a child, lived and went to school in Tiegerweide and Rueckenau, Molotschna, was commandeered to work in a Russian concentration camp in 1940, and who continued to meet and live among German-speaking Baptists and Mennonites, as religious life began to re-organize after Stalin's death. The memoirs provide political background against which many experiences are described from 1933 up until he immigrated to Canada in 1973. The memoirs includes notes on each change of Soviet leadership from Stalin through to Gorbechev, and how it affected religious and social life in the Soviet Union.
This fonds consists of governing documents (constitution and philosophy) board minutes, staff reports, annual reports, proposals for funding, media reports, publications, financial records and personnel records from the time that Voice for Non-violence was established in 1991 until it became non-active toward the end of 1998.
This file contains bulletins (1990-1997), newsletters (1996-1997), directory (1994), and annual reports (1997). The records pertain to the development of the congregation since 1990.
This fonds contains bulletins (1973-2002), church register (1909-1929), membership and family register (1911-1976), baptismal register (1911-1962), congregational meeting minutes (1931-1994), council of boards meeting minutes (1992-1993), annual reports (1949-1993), directory (1994), constitution (1929), programmes (1949-1963, 1992), and newsletters (1989-1992). The records pertain to the founding and development of the Mennonite congregation near Rosthern, Saskatchewan called the Eigenheim Mennonite Church. They document the leaders and participants of this congregation.
Eigenheim Mennonite Church (Rosthern, Saskatchewan)
This fonds contains bulletins (1987-1989, 1991-1992, 1995), annual reports (1987), Northwest Conference newsletters (1987-1989), and Conference of Mennonites in Alberta newsletter (1989). The records pertain to the founding and development of the Mennonite congregation Calgary, Alberta. They document some of the leaders and participants in the congregation.
This fonds contains bulletins (1986-1998, 2002-2003), newsletters (1986-1994), The Acronym newsletter (2004), congregational meeting minutes (1989-1992), annual reports (1990), directories (1991-1996), and nominations (2002-2003). The records pertain to the development of the Mennonite congregation in Langley, B.C. They document some of the leaders and participants in the congregation.
Langley Mennonite Fellowship (Langley, British Columbia)
This fonds contains bulletins (1986-2020), calendar of activities (1989-1996), directory (1994, 2006, 2007, 2016-2021), and minutes of the congregation's education committee meetings, finance committee meetings, missions committee meetings, and worship committee meetings (1986-2006, 2016-2020) , and the congregational worship calendars and themes (1986-2006). The records pertain to the beginning and development of the Emmanuel Mennonite Church in Winkler, Manitoba and they document the leaders and participants of this congregation.
This fonds consists of publicity documents, meeting minutes, by-laws, incorporation documents, information returns, wind up documents, contact information, participant evaluations, leadership materials, participant workbooks, as well as multimedia in the form of video and audio recordings for use in promoting the retreats and use during the retreats themselves. These records show the operational activities of Manitoba Mennonite & Brethren Marriage Encounter Inc., how the retreats were promoted, and the curriculum that was used during the retreats.
Manitoba Mennonite & Brethren Marriage Encounter Inc.
The fonds consists of a guide book produced in 1996 which describes the history and organizational structure of the congregation, and it's members' faith stories at the time. It also includes Steering Committee meeting minutes (1986-1997), Congregational meeting minutes (1987-1996), institutional documents and agreements (1986-1992), correspondence (1988-1993), Crossways in Common (1990-2006), and financial documents (1987-2006).
The fonds contains bulletins (1985-2000), congregational meeting minutes (1987-1988), annual reports including a prayer letter (1991-1996), and a directory (1993).
The fonds contains bulletins (1985-2017), newsletters (1985-1987), directories (1986-1990), annual reports (1986-1991), a congregational covenant (1986), and congregational meeting minutes (1986-1992) which pertain to the founding and development of this congregation in Regina.