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This fonds contains writings of H.T. and Clara his wife, including an extensive well-organized sermon collection. There is a photograph of a reunion of former Kronsgartner, Wiesefelder and Prijuter from 1973, as well as a map of Wiesenfeld as remembered from 1923. There is also one sound recording of H.T. Klassen speaking about his childhood memories of Russia.

Fonds is arranged in the following series:
1) Photocopies of diaries kept by Henry Jacob Willms with English translation, 1911-1931 - (4 files) Box 272
2) Stories - Mennonite Village Menlerchik in the Crimea including The Murders of Uncle August Hamm and Brother-in-law Heinrich, by Walter Burow

This fonds contains the following series:
1) Biographical material - (1 file) Box 444
2) Choir music - (1 file) Box 444

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.

Fonds consists of the following series:
1) Constitution, Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches - 1990-1994 - (1 file) Box 294
2) Reports - 1983-1992 - (9 files) Box 294
3) Correspondence - 1977-1995 - (10 files) Box 294
4) Minutes - 1977-1995 - (12 files) Box 295
5) Financial - 1991 (Columbia Bible College) - (1 file) Box 295
6) Lists - Executive Board - 1990,1994 ( 1 file); Fresno - 1984-1989 - (1 file) Box 295
7) Intermennonite Committee - (1 file) Box 295
8) Columbia Bible College - 1995 (4 files) Box 295

The fonds contains bulletins (1962-1991), annual reports (1975-1980), membership lists (1974-1980), pictorial directory (1980), and congregational histories (1969, 1980). The records document regular activities of this congregation and it participants. They show the main activities up to the time that the congregation withdrew membership from the conferences.

This fonds consists of a transcription of Rempel's war diary, autobiography, research on the community of Edenburg, published and unpublished Low German stories and poems including a partial translation of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. The material captures Low German stories, prose, and proverbs and provides context for Rempel's life experience.

This fonds consists of correspondence and other documents concerning the Canadian Committee for the Reunification of Families Separated by the Second World War in its efforts of information gathering and advocacy.

This fonds consists of Thiessen's correspondence and various materials he collected while compiling his books. In addition to the correspondence and notes, there are three card files: Male Thiessens (and variant spellings), female Thiessens, and an alphabetical card index which apparently includes all Mennonites he found who were born before 1820 or baptized before 1840. The first file folder contains some introductory and explanatory notes by Hermann Thiessen. Some of the people he corresponded with and received information from were Katharina Thiessen, Fritz van Bergen, and Anna Andres.

File list:
MHC reel #:-----Box#:------ Contents:
976----------------- 1 -------- Folders 488-633
977----------------- 2 ---------------- 634-771
978 ---------------- 3 ---------------- 772-829
979----------------- 4 -------- Male Thiessens A
980----------------- 5 -----------------------B-E
981----------------- 6 -----------------------E-H
982----------------- 7 -----------------------H-J
983----------------- 8 ------------------------J
984----------------- 9 -----------------------J-N
985---------------- 10 -----------------------N-P
986---------------- 11 -----------------------R-W
987---------------- 12 -------Female Thiessens A
988---------------- 13 -----------------------A-D
989---------------- 14 -----------------------E-H
990---------------- 15 -----------------------H-J
991---------------- 16 -----------------------J-M
992---------------- 17 -----------------------M-O
993---------------- 18 -----------------------O-W
994---------------- 19 -----“Suchindex” A-Claassen
995---------------- 20 ----------------Falk-Janzen
996---------------- 21 --------------Claassen-Esau
997---------------- 22 --------------Janzen-Peters
998---------------- 23 -------------Philipsen-Vogt
999---------------- 24 -------------Wall-Zacharias
1000--------------- 25---------------Folders 1-90
1001--------------- 26----------------------91-225
1002--------------- 27---------------------226-313
1003--------------- 28---------------------314-424
1004--------------- 29---------------------425-487

Fonds is arranged in the following series:
1) Legal Documents 1928, 1934 - (1 file) Box 228
2) Genealogy - Martin Thiessen - (1 file) Box 228
3) Photographs
4) Thiessen Genealogy Chart - 19 pages of descendants of Martin Thiessen

This fonds consists of a membership register (1918-1942), a congregational meeting minute book (1920-1939), and a series of 10 notebooks of the Jugendverein (youth society) activities (1919-1945) which record the organization and activities of the participants of this congregation from its inception up to its dissolution. A brief congregational history and reunion programme (1974) are included.

This fonds consist of immigration documents, church membership transfers, congregational bulletins and minutes, financial records, and sermons. These records follow the Mennonites as they immigrated from Russia to Canada, their transition in Canada from Ontario to Saskatchewan and the formation of a congregation. Once established the church flourished but began to reduce in size along with urbanization of the rural population in the 1960s. In 2019 four photos depicting the building of the church in 1927 were donated (see photo collection 728).

Fonds consists of the following series:
1) Life Story (1 file)
2) Correspondence - 1934-2003 (1 file)
3) Clippings (1 file)
4) Genealogy (1 file)
5) Photographs and Tape recording ( 1 file)

This fonds contains correspondence (1959-1972), newspaper clippings and photographs (1958-1976), congregational reports to the mission board (1963-1972), bulletins (1968-1989), annual reports (1975), newsletter ([1989]), and a brief congregational history (1957). The records pertain to the founding and development of the Mennonite congregation Grande Prairie, Alberta. They document some of the leaders and participants in the congregation.

This fonds contains church council meeting minutes (1964-1977), congregational meeting minutes and reports (1964-1987), directories (1976-1987), various reports (1963-1988), annual reports (1976-1986), program cabinet and elders meeting minutes (1981-1984), papers on various subjects (1971-1985), list of congregational office holders (1965-1981), various other minutes (1963-1984), constitution (1976), and a brief congregational history (1979) and congregational profile (1976). These document the activities of the activities of the congregation, some of its leaders and participants.