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This fonds contains bulletins (1968-2021), directories (1968-2000, 2005, 2020), newsletters (1976-1995, 2007-2014; 2014-2021), congregational meeting minutes (1936-1983, 2016), church council meeting minutes (1975-1980), correspondence (1934-1982), legal documents (1938-1946), constitution ([19-?]-2000), annual reports (1936-2001, 2015, 2020), and brief congregational histories (1956-1978). The records pertain to the founding and development of the Mennonite congregation in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. They document the leaders and participants in the congregation.

Nicholas J. Fehderau and his mother in front of the “showpiece” main entrance door to their house.

The collection contains photographs depicting aspects of Nicholas J. Fehderau's family's life in the city of Halbstadt (Ukraine) and on his family's farming estate up to 1924, when he immigrated to Canada.
Also, the collection includes several other images showing Nicholas's Canadian life in Kitchener, Ontario, especially as a choir conductor.
The Nicholas J. Fehderau photo collection includes more than the 31 scanned images in this collection (see also NP164-04 for more photographs).
The collection documents the assumptions, motivation, vision, and everyday life of one Mennonite estate family, the Fehderau family.

Fonds includes the following files:
1) Biography of Nick Peters (written by his brother Isaac Peters) - 1945 (1 file) - Box 218
2) Correspondence - 1937-1948 (1 file) - Box 218
3) Vital Statistics Documents - 1938-1946 (2 files) - Box 218
4) Poetry (written by Nick and Isaac Peters) -1929-1964 (1 file) - Box 218
5) Ephemera (1 file) - Box 218
6) Photographs

This fonds contains 120 letters that Nicolai Thiessen received mainly from his father, KIaas Thiessen (1844-1918) and siblings of Schoenfeld, Russia, during the years that he served as a missionary in Java, Dutch East Indies (named Indonesia after 1949). (A few letters are from other friends or acquaintances.) The letters contain hints about the nature of the mission work and preparation for it, and also they tell of conditions in Russia from 1905-1917. The letters contain information about the economic, political, social and religious life in the Mennonite colonies in South Russia. Deaths in the community are often reported. There are several letters written a brother from the Forestry Service camp. One letter is dated 1924 and one 1935.