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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.

The materials in this fonds document the founding and development of the first Rudnerweider (EMMC) congregation in Winnipeg. There are three series in the this fonds:
-1)Membership records (1958-1969)
-2) Minutes, reports and correspondence (1956-1994)
-3) Annual reports (1981-1999)

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 consists of seventeen diaries written by Rev. Peter Buhler.

Brotherhood and board minutes and reports, correspondence, Sunday school attendance rerords and meeting minutes, membership records including transfer of memberships, Christian Endeavour program outlines, Ladies groups records, mission minutes and reports and financial records. The files show the growth and development this congregation.

The fonds consists of sermons notes (1920-1938), notebooks containing notes taken at several annual Canadian Conference sessions (later known as Conference of Mennonites in Canada) (1923-1932) and several photographs of people with whom he worked.

This fonds consists of photocopies of a daily diary (and translation) that Jacob W. Friesen started in 1943, recording his many activities as a farmer and minister. Also included are sermons, a translation of sermons, and a record of Sommerfeld Mennonite Church ministers listing their ordination date. The excerpts from "Genealogy of Conrad Dwayne Stoesz" and "Rev. Jacob W. Friesen", by Melanie Friesen were added to the collection by the MHC staff.

This fonds contains some Klaassen family genealogy work, diaries and memoirs (1859-1922), and many letters from Johannes, a son of Michael Klaassen, about his lot as a conscientious objector in the United States during World War I. There is a diary of the trek to central Asia in 1880 and the years that followed. The letters relate to the family's decision to relocate to Manitoba in 1918. There are sermons and sermon notes, and a one-page school class schedule. Martin Klaassen sketched and painted two items -- one is the village of Tiegenhagen, Prussia and the other is the Johann Cornies estate of Juschanlee, Russia.

This collection consists of photocopies of letters from Jacob Fehr Jr., a journal of Jacob Fehr Jr. recounting the immigration to Canada, a brief account of the immigration by Helena Fehr, and a register of letters that includes authors such as Aeltester Gerhard Dyck of Chrotitza, South Russia. I also includes a notebook of sermons. In addition to these primary documents there are copies of published translation and transcription of the journal of Jacob Fehr.

This collection consists of three series:
-1) School-related material
-2) Correspondence
-3) Sermons.
These series contain mostly original material that was created while Ewert was principal at the Mennonite Collegiate Institute (Gretna, Manitoba), a Manitoba school inspector and ordained minister.

This fonds contains Franz H. Letkemann's Russian school report (1913), personal financial records related to the payment of the Reiseschuld (immigration travel debt) to the Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization as well as the assistance given to others through the Board (1923-1951) and sermons preached in various Manitoba Mennonite congregations with which he was associated (1948-1982).

This fonds consists mainly of the following series:
-1) Correspondence
-2) Topical files
-3) Sermon notes -
-4) Photographs
Several discrete items or objects not part of these series are: a map of Gnadenfeld and some memorabilia picked up in his travels (Vol. 3298; Map #817)

The files are from Gerhard Lohrenz's filing cabinet and his 13 binders of correspondence and photographs. Some personal and financial items were removed by the family before the collection was delivered.

The fonds consists of correspondence and documents collected, written and received by David Wiens. Contained within in the fonds is genealogical material (1990), correspondence collected from various people (1962-1968) and correspondence written and received (1990-1997) as well as the Schellenberg genealogy/compiled by Maria (Schellenberg) Wiens (1998). All of the correspondence included is either from or to people in either the former USSR or Canada. Some of the people with whom David corresponded with were George Harder, Herb Giesbrecht, Jacob Heinrichs, Cornelius Heinrichs and Hans Wiens. The material is all related to David's family history and genealogy research.

This fonds contains photocopied originals and typed transcripts of the diaries, poetry and other writings of Anna Baerg. Clara K. Dyck transcribed the diaries and some of the other writings, and also provided some interpretive commentary. The diaries, which include the years 1916-1926, and 1959, detail the every day life experiences of a young woman in a Mennonite community in Russia during the years of war, revolution, and civil war and a little bit of her subsequent life in Canada.

This fonds contains a transcript of an interview with Jacob Bergen, Jacob Bergen correspondence with the Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization regarding immigration, payment of travel debt and the sponsorship of relatives coming to Canada after the Second World War and correspondence with the Schönwieser Mennonite church. The fonds also includes the letters written by Margaret Bergen (1928-) to her parents, Jacob and Maria Bergen, and the letters received by Margaret from her parents, while attending the Mennonite Collegiate Institute boarding school from 1941-1945, while attending Normal School in Winnipeg 1945-1946, and while teaching in various schools in Manitoba and on an exchange program in Coventry, England in 1961-1962.

This material shows the difficult situation some Mennonites experienced in Russia after the First World War, how one family coped and immigrated to Canada where they started a new life with their children. The letters show the high value that this family placed on education and staying in touch with each other when transportation, travel and communication was quite limited.

There is also one file of letters which Margaret Bergen received from female Ukrainian agronomist of Zaporozhye who began to care for the Mennonite cemetery on the Island of Chortitza in 1998. These letters contain a perspective of a Ukrainian who lived through World War II as a prisoner in Germany and then returned to Ukraine in 1957, and eventually attending the Mennonite Church in Zaporozhye which started in the late 1990s.