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This is a photocopy of his account in his journals. For the original, see series 7, file 20.

Materials include the Selkirk Settlement, European new-comers, Indigenous and Metis peoples, Winnipeg Free Press, 1963; “Manitoba and the North-West of the Dominion of Canada”, nd: 2 small clippings about PJB Reimer and other ministers, 1948; 3 small clippings about Mennonites migrating to Mexico, 1948; a small clipping about flood waters receding, 1950; Steinbach teachers, 1951; two articles he wrote, 1951, 1954; a page featuring Steinbach schools and its teachers, 1954; one lists graduates and awards, including his son Al, 1956; a review of In Search of Utopia by E.K. Francis, to which he had contributed; a newspaper clipping of photos of 7 Mennonite graduates from the University of Manitoba, 1951; 3 pages from the Mennonite Weekly Review, 1952; a page from the April 30, 1958, issue of The Red River Valley Echo (RRVE); a page from the Carillon that features the Sarto baseball team, 1959; 2 pages from the RRVE about the Rosenort Grill and Grocery, which his daughter Louise managed and co-owned and where his daughter Charlotte was employed, 1960, 1961; a page from the March 2, 1962, issue of the Carillon that featured the tentative plan for an “Old Type Mennonite Village lot”; an article about consolidation in Hanover SD; a page from The Journal featuring PJB as the Centennial Citizen of the Week, 1967; several more articles.

Includes a letter from Arnold Dyck, 1921, and a letter from Bill Schroeder, 1974, attached to maps.

some 10 articles (some are duplicates) written by PJB Reimer about some members of his family: Maria Barkman Reimer, Klaas Reimer, Jakob Barkman (Jacob Barkman), Brandts, Warkentins, and a poem PJB wrote about his family

brochure for the Reimer Family Reunion held in July in Blumenort, MB, with his 2 name-tags tucked inside from 1954 and 1958; an article from Time magazine about the reunion of the “prospering Reimers”; the entire 14 July 1954 issue of the Steinbach Post that features a huge photo of the 1500-person assembly; “A Record Family Reunion,” a newspaper clipping from the The Star Weekly, Toronto, 1954; a newspaper clipping about the Kehler family reunion, “The (Berliner) Jacob Kehler family reunion” written by PJB Reimer, nd; an article about Aron Schulz written in 1924 by daughter Maria and son-in-law David Friesen, in German and in English, 1924, 1954; an undated hand-written article wherein PJB traces the lineage of Klaas Reimer back to Abraham Reimer, Danzig

his birth-certificate; 6 articles he wrote about his childhood and early teaching years; a photograph of him, 1951; his autobiography (partial); part of an article about PJB and his first wife Elizabeth Reimer (1903-1946) written by Al Reimer for a family-history book; more articles he wrote, including “Miene Mutta”; a list of cars he owned; article “The Peter JB Reimer family”; photocopy of a hand-written article about himself and one about a book he wrote; a hand-written invitation to celebrate the 25th wedding anniversary of PJB and Marie Reimer; two pages stapled together—one noting the program PJB jotted down and the other the brief address Marie gave at their silver-wedding anniversary in 1971; a small paper with the prayer from Al Reimer; copy of an article about their 40th wedding anniversary; a tribute by son Al; “P.J.B. Reimer ist heimgegangen” and “Obituary of Our Father, Peter J.B. Reimer”—two obituaries written by his son Al; and a tribute to PJB Reimer by Roy Vogt