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This fonds is dominated by sermon notes and conference materials. The materials also reflect J.M. Pauls' involvement with Sunday School and youth activities which span his career within the Bergthaler community. There are files related to his involvement with Salem Old Folks home and the Winkler Bergthaler Church. Unfortunately, his involvement Eden Mental Health Centre and Mennonite Collegiate Institute are not well documented in the collection.
A few personal papers in the fonds include some family correspondence, a short story written by Pauls and his wife about their lives in Russia. There is also a diary of his trip in 1957 to attend the Mennonite World Conference in Germany.

This fonds consists of two groups of letters. The first group of letters were written by Jakob Peters (1908-1944) to his sister Anna Peters (1919-) between 1942 and 1944, after he had accompanied her from the Ukraine to Berlin where she remained to work in a German household. Anna had had little schooling in German, with her father exiled to Siberia when she was 11 and her mother dying when she was 13, and the family being classified as kulaks (tight-fisted landowners). As her German was so poor, Jakob would correct her letters and return them to her so that she would improve her German. There are 24 letters in this group and they have all been transcribed and translated into English.
The second group of letters were written to relatives in Canada, specifically his sister and brother-in-law, Maria (Peters) and Jakob Bergen and her son John Bergen (1922- ). The letters begin from when Jakob Peters escaped Russia in 1928 across the Caucausus to Persia, his years in Brazil and his years studying in Berlin. In his letters to John Bergen, who was studying at Mennonite Collegiate Institute in Gretna during the late 1930s, Jakob Peters often writes about how wonderful it would be for him to come and get an education in Germany after completing his high school in Gretna.

This fonds includes digital masters, optical and negative tracks, broadcast VHS and Beta master videocassettes, release prints in 16 mm film and VHS video format. The moving images contain some colour and some black and white scenes. Otto Klassen's productions are the result of extensive research in archives, both in Canada and Germany. These productions represent the first time that the story of the Mennonite people in Prussia, Russia, Canada, Mexico, and Paraguay have been told through moving images. Several productions were released in multiple languages -- English, German, Low German and Spanish. At least 11 separate titles or series are represented in this fonds. They are:
-1) The Great Trek 1939-1945
-2) Prairie Pioneers: The Mennonites of Manitoba
-3) Mennonites Conquer the Vistula Delta
-4) Mennonite Monument
-5) 75 years Mennonites in Mexico
-6) 50 year Freedom Jubilee: Praise God for Canada
-7) Women of Courage: Stories of Sadness & Stories of Suvival
-8) Gespräch: Delgatenreise 1921
-9) Im Dienst Der Liebe (KM 81)
-10) Frajoa Enn De Oost-resaew, "Three Short Plays"
-11) 125th Anniversary of Mennonites in Manitoba: 1874-1999

This fonds contains bulletins (1963-1998), directories (1969-1993), 10th anniversary history booklet (1973), brief congregational histories (1973-1983), annual reports (1978-1979), list of deceased (1979), and newsletters (1978-1997). The records pertain to the founding and development of the Mennonite congregation in Abbotsford, B.C. They document some of the leaders and participants in the congregation.

This fonds contains bulletins (1963-2001), annual reports (1964-1994), congregational meeting minutes (1964-1987), ladies fellowship meeting minutes (2000), correspondence (1968-1976), directories ([1977]-1993), constitution (1979-1989), newsletters (1980-2000), 50th anniversary celebrations programme (1995), list of deceased members, 1946-2001 (2001), and brief congregational histories ([197-]-1985). Audio cassettes of church service while George Groening as pastor (1981-1984). The records pertain to the founding and development of the Mennonite congregation in Chilliwack, B.C. They document some of the leaders and participants in the congregation.

This fonds contains bulletins (1968-1999), correspondence (1959-1966), photographs (1960), reports including annual reports (1963-1990), congregational office holders (1969), church dedication service programme (1984), ), congregational meeting minutes (1989-1990), directory (1991), newsletter (1999), and a brief congregational history (1960). The records pertain to the founding and development of the Mennonite congregation in Burns Lake, B.C. They document some of the leaders and participants in the congregation.

This fonds contains bulletins (1981-1999), annual reports (1993), newspaper clippings ([1980]), correspondence ([198-]), congregational meeting minutes (1980), and ), a brief congregational history (1980-1981). The records pertain to the founding and development of the Mennonite congregation in Vernon, B.C. They document some of the leaders and participants in the congregation.

This fonds contains bulletins (1953-1961, 1963-1996), annual reports ([196-?]-1986), constitutions ([196-?]-1978), directories (1976-1992), 25th anniversary book, Chinese bulletins (1978-1981), Japan Anabaptist Center brochure ([197-?]), draft commitment proposal (1979), newsletters (1984-1990), and a brief congregational history ([1958]). The records pertain to the founding and development and dissolution of the Mennonite congregation in Vancouver, B.C. They document some of the leaders and participants in the congregation.

This fonds contains bulletins (1965-2001), a brief congregational history (1974), annual reports (1975-2000), newsletters (1977-1998), correspondence (1959-1966), congregational meeting minutes (1960-2000), directories (1974-1997), church register (1960-1980), and various congregational committees meeting minutes (1966-2001). The records pertain to the development of the Mennonite congregation in Abbotsford, B.C. They document some of the leaders and participants in the congregation.

This fonds contains correspondence (1959-1966), a brief history (1960), and one photograph : b&w ; 9 X 9 cm (1960). The records pertain to the founding and development of the Mennonite mission in Fort St. John, B.C.

This fonds contains bulletins (1977-1981) and a directory ([1979]). The records pertain to the development of the Chinese Mennonite congregation in Vancouver, B.C.

This fonds contains bulletins (1953-2001), newsletters (1953-1997), annual reports (1954-1999), financial statements (1963-1965) [others were included in the annual reports], correspondence (1966-1999), directories (([197-?]-1997), 6 photographs : col : 15 X 10 cm. ([1979]), 50th anniversary programme (1986), congregational meeting minutes (1990-1998), ), advent devotional booklets (1991-1992), and funeral service programmes (1993-1997). The records pertain to the founding and development of the Mennonite congregation in Abbotsford, B.C. They document some of the leaders and participants in the congregation.

This fonds contains bulletins (1960-2014), financial records (1959-1964), annual reports and other reports (1963-1993, 2002-2010, 2012-2015, 2017-2021), congregational directories (1969-1997, 2008), newsletters (1971-1996), some Welcome Inn materials (1977-1998), congregational and church council meeting minutes (1962-1997, 2002-2004, 2006-2009, 2012-2013, 2015, 2018-2021), correspondence (1959-1990), executive committee meeting minutes (1982), council of committees meeting minutes (1982), and a congregational history (1959-1977). The records pertain to the founding and development of the Mennonite congregation in Hamilton, Ontario. They document the leaders and participants in the congregation.

This fonds consists of diaries written by David Janzen after having lived in Canada for over 20 years. Janzen writes about daily activities in the family and on the farm. The diaries start in 1947 and continue until 1966, four years before his death. At the back of some of the journals are addresses of friends and relatives and newspaper clippings of interest to Janzen at the time (i.e health matters, how to deal with insects, etc.)

This fonds consists of the following series: -
-1) Peace and War
-2) Mennonite Encyclopedia
-3) Materials relating to trips. In addition there is one pamphlet entitled: Bericht ueber die Mennonitische Lehranstalt zu Gretna, Manitoba, and a photocopied journal.