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This fonds consists of a leather-covered “Snap Shot Album” featuring the face and headdress of an indigenous man burned into the leather. Photographer, J.E. Suderman’s name appears at the top left and the name of his son, H.J. Suderman at the bottom left. Inside are fifty-five (55) black and white photos taken by Jacob Sudermann. Son Harold has supplied photo descriptions which were used as a guide.

The fonds consists of the following:
1) Diaries: Nine diaries dated 1953, 1955-1961 and one undated diary, all written in German Gothic script - (1 file) Box 379
2) Notebook: One notebook written in German & English and containing several sheets of music, no date - (1 file) Box 379

This fonds consists of diaries and other documents which primarily document the life of Adina Janzen (nee Epp). It includes diaries covering 1940-1943 while she attended school in Kiev. Further diaries cover the period from 1943-1947 when Mennonites fled from Russia into Germany and their migration to Paraguay. These entries document her thoughts, feelings, and emotions during the migration. There are legal records pertaining to her birth and citizenship and family genealogical records compiled at various time which provide family background in Russia. The materials also cover the period after she immigrated to Canada.

This fonds contains personal diaries, journals, and travel logs of LaVerna’s. Personal correspondence, letters, keepsakes and hobbies such as her Royal family collection are contained. Research from articles, newspapers, and periodicals on a great range of topics such as women in the church, faith, marriage, and prayer with the drafts, and published articles LaVerna wrote on her researched topics remain. LaVerna kept drafts, notes and letters from editors as well.

The fonds consists of the following series:
1) Maps - 51 maps of Europe and Asia created by Karl Stumpp and some unknown cartographers. - Map Cabinet.
2) Manuscripts -three manuscripts written by Abraham H. Unruh, Henry Ekkert and an unknown author. - (1 file) Box 431
3) Photographs

This fonds contains correspondence, concert pamphlets, newspaper and magazine articles and reviews from Wiebe’s music career, seven audio and visual recordings on CD’s, four music books, and other materials.

1) Reports - Tribute to H.A. Neufeld & Peter Toews, by J.J. Wiens. Submitted by Maria Kroeker - (1 file) Box 374
2) "Ein Jahr Gefaengnis" (One year in Prison) by Franz Martin Hamm (1901-1971) Written in German, includes English translation - (1 file) Box 374
3) Lists - Mennonites in Politics, 1997 - (1 file) Box 374
4) Medical Text - Anatomie und Physiologie! Menno Colony, Paraguay 1959, by Anny Giesbrecht. A German language, handwritten, bound medical textbook with diagrams. Some handwritten notes and exam papers are included - (1 file) Box 374
5) P. Thiessen - Journal of Poetry & Music, 1917. A handwritten journal in Russian & German (some Gothic script) which includes musical score written in Ziffern. Writer could be Peter Isaak Thiessen. - (1 file) Box 374
6) The Fresno Bee - "Call Em Muppies" & "If there wasn't guilt, you'd just be a Yuppie" 1986 - (1 file) Box 374
7) David Duerksen, translation of Der Bote article "Reise Prediger" - (1 file) Box 374
8) Military Exemption, Prussia 1868: An account by Aeltester Peter Bartel - (1 file) Box 374
9) John A. Harder - Travel Diary March 14 - July 25, 1955 to Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay & Uruguay. German Language. - (1 file) Box 374
10) The Story of Peter Franz Froese, "Begegnungen, Zusammenarbeit und engere Bekanntschaft mit P.F. Froese" by Cornelius Reimer N.D. - (1 file) Box 374
11) Shapansky, Maria (Barwich), Hardbound Journal of handwritten songs in Ziffern and a diary of the journey to Canada from Adelsheim, 1943-1948. - (1 file) Box 374
12) Report on Sagradowka by D. Wiebe, Berlin 1946 (in English) - (1 file) Box 374
13) Echo Verlag - Constitution N.D., October 1959 edition and a list of books by Arnold Dyck. - (1 file) Box 374
14) Walter & Mary Balzer, letter from D & L Pauls, 1962; Poem: The Blessings that Remain, Memorial bulletin for Mary Balzer, 2015 - (1 file) Box 374
15 Hans Kasdorf, "Flammen Unausloeschen, 1991 - (1 file) Box 374
16) Agnes Huebert, Recipe Book from Steiglitz-Berlin, (in German Gothic script), 1913 - (1 file) Box 374

Fonds is arranged in the following series:
1) Bulletins - (arranged chronologically) - 1963-1968 (3 files) Box 114

Fonds is arranged in the following series:
1) Constitution & Bylaws - 1936, 1953-1959, 1962, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1977-1979, 1986-1989, 1996-1999, 2002, 2004 - (3 files) - Box 63
2) History - 1963-1964, 1986-1988, 1979-2009 (4 files) - Box 63
3) Minutes - 1936-2000 - (30 files) - Box 63-65
4) Correspondence - 1936-2011 - (65 files) Boxes 65-68
5) Financial Records - 1947-2006 - (30 files) - Boxes 68-70
6) Legal Documents - 1964-2008 - (5 files) - Box 70
7) Reports - 1941-2007 - (14 files) - Box 70
8) Lists - 1936-2006 - (15 files) - Box 70
9) Vital Statistics - 1934-2008 - (15 files) - Boxes 71-72
10) Personnel - 1979-2006 - (14 files) - Box 72
11) Certificates, including membership transfers - 1948-2008, 1971-1996, 1958-2006 - (5 files) - Box 72
12) Publications - 1941-2008 - (41 files) - Boxes 73-75
13) Lectures & Sermons - 1957-1996 - (3 files) - Box 76
14) Education - 1948-2009 - (51 files) - Boxes 76-77
15) Youth - 1956-2007 - (13 files) - Box 78
16) Music - 1960, 1963, 1973, 1975, 1976-1989, 1990-1997, 2006 - (2 files) - Box 78
17) Service - 1950-2007 - (26 files) - Boxes 78-80
18 Missions - 1957-2004 - (6 files) - Box 80
19) Construction - 1965, 1975-1976, 1982, 1984 - (2 files) - Box 80
20) Photographs - (1 file) - Box 80
21) Clippings - 1961-2008 - (1 file) - Box 80
22) Guest Books (4) - 1972-1993 - (2 files) - Box 80
23) Ephemera - (1 file) - Box 80
24) Conference of Mennonites in Canada - 1949-2007 - (5 files) - Box 80
25) Conference of Mennonites in BC - 1936-2008 - (5 files) - Box 80
26) Confidential. (Permission is required to access these files). - (4 files) - Box 81

This fonds consists of two bound books and the loose papers that were found in one them, copies of the books, their translations, and copies of letters written by Jacob Wiens (1816-1888) that were published in the Mennonitische Rundschau .

The first book, the Wiens Family Diary, contains mathematical instructional material, fraktur art, a travel diary, recipes, poetry, and a record of events that took place in Prussia, Russia, and Canada. The second book, the Jacob Wiens Family Record, contains Wiens genealogical information and financial records.

This material is unique in that it spans a large time frame, following a family through three countries and contains entries by multiple members of the Wiens family. It shows a love for artistic expression. It shows complex mathematical problems and solutions as by a teacher. The material shows the writer's love for poetry, music, and the kind of medical practices in use by Mennonite people in Russia in the mid to late 1800s. A travel diary documents the trip from Russia to Canada in 1876. The materials give the reader a unique window into the life of a Mennonite community in Prussia, Russia, and Canada.

Location: Volumes 2252-2253, 4580, microfilm #785.

This fonds has been organized into seven categories:
-1) Diaries
-2) Day planners
-3) Journals
-4) Church material
-5) Sermons
-6) Education
-7) Christmas and New Years wishes.

This fonds contains minutes, reports, correspondence and project files of the board, executive and committees of the Society. An annual report book provides an overview of the activities and projects undertaken to meet the Society's objectives. The records of the board, executive and committees provide more details on the activities and projects. The activities include celebration events, seminars and workshops, research, publication and marketing. This fonds consists of the following types of records:
A) Administrative and Legal Records

• Board and Executive records (constitutions, annual reports, minutes, financial records)

B) Records of the committees and projects
-Fine Arts / Cultural Committee
-Genealogy and Family History Committee
-Research, Scholarship and Publication Committee
-Local History and Historic Sites Committee
-Historic Sites and Monuments Committee
-Membership and Publicity Committee
-Mennonite Book Club (Mennonite Books)
-Finance Committee
-Oral History Committee
-Conscientious Objectors Monument Committee
-125th Anniversary Committee
-Jewish, Mennonite, Ukrainian Conference Committee
-Arnold Dyck Publication project
-Mennonite Artist: Insider as Outsider
-Museo Y Centro Cultural Menonita, A.C
-Manitoba Mennonite Centennial Celebrations

C) Involvement with other organisations
-Involvement with other organizations such as Mennonite World Conference, Institute of Mennonite Studies, Mennonite Historical Society of Canada, Mennonite Encyclopedia, Pembina Hills Historical Society, Neubergthal Heritage Foundation, Canadian Human Rights Museum

D) Photographs
-MMHS Photograph collection

E) Books
-Books published by MMHS

This fonds has been organized into eighteen series of textual records plus 4 photograph collections:
-1) Student Records, 1937-1987;
-2) Alumni Records, 1929-1989;
-3) Personnel Records, 1969-1988;
-4) Board Records, 1938-1988;
-5) Church School Hour Records, 1956-1964;
-6) Courses/Scheduling, 1946-1987;
-7) Correspondence, 1938-1989;
-8) Related Organization, 1961-1987;
-9) Special Programs and Events, 1940-1988;
-10) Faculty/Staff Records, 1960-1989;
-11) Program Review and Future Planning, 1970-1989;
-12) Student Council Records, 1945-1986;
-13) Campus Development, 1975-1988;
-14) Other Committees, 1967-1978;
-15) Office Files, 1940-1994;
-16) Public Relations Records, 1964-1988;
-17) Publications, 1948-1988;
-18) Financial Records, 1947-1994.
-19) Elim Bible Institute Photograph Collections: No. 108 (30 photos); No. 195 (23 photos); No. 415 (54 photos); No. 417 (69 photos).

This fonds consists of correspondence of the Enns - Toews family in Canada, Russia, Brazil, and Germany to and from family and friends. Also included are diaries eleven photographs, two Russian estate maps and one audio cassette. This fonds can be divided in to nine series.
-1) John H. Enns papers
-2) Elise Enns papers
-3) Anna Toews papers
-4) Gerhard Enns papers
-5) Gerhard Martens papers
-6) Various Family members papers
-7) Photographs
-8) David Enns papers
-9) Luise (Enns) Martens papers.

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.