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This fonds contains a ledger containing family and genealogical data, including some church transfer documents, 16 sermon booklets and additional loose pages, a personal date book (Christliches Vergissmeinnicht), and several other documents created or collected by Peter J. Dyck. There is an English translation of a sermon written by P.J. Dyck on the occasion of the "sudden and self-inflicted death of a person whose passing causes the bereaved great sorrow" which is of note.

This fonds consists of a sampling of key documents which Ike Froese preserved from his life’s passion and work related to how he worked within the Mennonite Church to relate and minister amoung North American aboriginal people. Correspondence, news clippings, and research papers are found in this fonds. The files include information on the history of Mennonite Pioneer Mission and Conference of Mennonites in Canada Native Ministry programs, especially from 1970 to 1980, but also there are a few documents from the 1980s and 1990s. The fonds contains one series of textual materials and another of photographs, which show people, place and events of significance to his life.

This fonds consists of a journal written by Heinrich Heinrichs which covers 1918-1922 including his escape from his time with the Selbstschutz, his time with the Russian White Army, fleeing to Constantinople and finally immigration and his early months in the United States. The first 11 pages of the journal are written in the Russian language and appear to be prose. Pages 12 to 49 are written in German gothic script which has was translated by Heinrich Heinrichs’ nephew Arthur Toews. Between pages 13 and 14, two leaves (4 pages) have been cut out. The family speculates “probably because they were too bad.” Seven photocopied photographs are also included showing the young Heinrichs family and the burial plot of Heinrichs in Detroit.

This fonds includes personal letters written by friends and family as well as professional letters. The majority of letters from family and friends were written in gothic script German. Some of these letters have been transcribed by someone other than A.K. Friesen into Latin script German. When A.K. Friesen was a teacher he received letters from the Department of Education and Dominion School Supply. Then when A.K. transitioned to working for Monarch Lumber Company he received letters from The Star Manufacturing Co. Limited.
Most of the letters were written to A.K. Friesen, however, there are a few letters written to other people.

Also included is a free sample of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver tablets (Volume 6486.7).

This fonds consists of oral interviews (digital) conducted by Abigail Carl-Klassen, transcripts, consent forms, as well as textual and photographic materials provided by the participants. "The oral history project sought to document and explore the ways in which Mennonite, Mestizo, and Indigenous individuals and communities have interacted with one another in spite of fears, prohibitions, and taboos, in the nearly 100 years since Old Colony Mennonites arrived from Manitoba and Saskatchewan to settle in the region in 1922. We especially wanted to capture personal stories to explore how life has changed in the Campos and to document the depth and variety of cross-cultural interactions occurring between individuals and communities at the present moment." https://www.mennotoba.com/5-questions-with-poet-abigail-carl-klassen/. The project was funded by the D.F. Plett Historical Research Foundation.

This fonds consists of sketches and handwritten commentaries describing Marta’s childhood on a rural Manitoba farm in the late 1920s and early 1930s, during the Great Depression; they were drawn over a period of fifteen years as a form of physical therapy. Marta arranged her artwork by which of the four seasons the subjects of her art fell into.

This fonds consists of research files and primary material collected by Abraham D. Stoesz for the purpose of publishing a Stoesz book. There are letters, documents inherited from his father and other ancestors, birth and marriage certificates, citizenship records, photographs and other family records. In addition to the Stoesz family materials, there is also some Harder genealogical information including excerpts from a Jacob Harder (1789-1857) diary.

This fonds consists of diaries, correspondence, community announcements, legal documents, financial ledgers and memorabilia which record events, transactions and experiences in the life of Johan W. Thiesen in Neuhorst, Manitoba prior to 1922 and later in Neuhorst, Mexico until his death in 1954. The diaries consist of 7 volumes covering 1902-1951. The correspondence includes letters written by Isaac Mueller, Jacob Lehn, Andreas Wallmann, Johann Wall and many more who wrote from Manitoba and Saskatchewan in Canada, as well as from village in the Durango Mennonite settlement in Mexico, and from Paraguay and Russia, arranged alphabetically by writer. The legal documents include the 1877 Neuhorst village agreement from Manitoba and other land deeds held by the family between 1880 and 1933. The financial ledgers cover records income and expense records (1902-1954) and account books of the Old Colonia Waisenamt (1930-1953). Personal memorabilia includes several school notebooks (hand-writing, arithmetic, religious instruction, poems), genealogical data and a hand-copied transcription of Heinrich Donner's 1783 history of the Hutterian movement.

This fonds contains information on the founding of a radio station in Altona, Manitoba, an autobiography of A.J. Thiessen, a portrait of Thiessen and a photo of his first bus. Much of the material documents Thiessen's community involvements.

This fonds contains various newspaper clippings, poems and correspondence related to the Ebenezar Girl's Home (Maedchenheim) in Winnipeg. Included are some items that document the contact which Helene Tiessen continued to have with girls from the home. A small amount of material was created by her husband Rev. Gerhard A. Peters.

Of special interest is an interview of Helen Tiessen in German about the Maedchenheim created by Henry Dueck.

This fonds contains both personal and pastoral materials. The personal materials consist of a financial ledger and various financial documents and correspondence relating to farming operations. The pastoral materials consist of correspondence, minutes, reports and other documents. A large portion of the correspondence relates to alternative military service, and some also relates to church discipline.

This fonds consists of photographs of the Tokmak railroad, the Wall estates, and the extended Wall family. Maps showing the railroad including a Russian map of the Crimea and southern Ukraine and a memoir by George Wall recounting the family's experiences in Russia and early life in Canada. A Gesangbuch (hymnal( once owned by Peter Wall is also included.

This fonds uniquely highlights the life and times of a wealthy Mennonite family involved in the transportation and farming industries and how that changed with the Russian Revolution forcing the family to emigrate.

This fonds consists of 493 sermons organized by the following categories: funerals, baptism, Christmas, New Years, Pentecost, Thanksgiving, Missions fests, Advent, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension Day, pre-Easter, post Epiphany, wedding and anniversaries, communion, Trinitatis, Ten commandments, Matthew, Acts, Romans, I Corinthians, James, catechism . The sermons cover the cycle of the Christian church calendar and the breadth of community life over a 40 year period from the late 1930s to the 1970s.

This fonds consists of a photocopied sermon entitled "Meinem Austritt Predigt = My Departure sermon" written by Peter S. Wiebe.

The H.P. Krehbiel fonds consists of material related to Krehbiel's involvement with the Mennonite Colonization Board's efforts at settling Russian Menonites in Mexico. The files include correspondence with various individuals and institutions regarding Mennonite settlements in Roasario, San Juan, Las Aminas, El Trebol and Cuauhtemoc, applications for emigration to Mexico, settlers lists, detailing when and where they settled, and accounts regarding how the MCB assisted Mennonite settlers in Mexico.