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“Russian-Mennonite Photos”

Reimer filled this file with photocopies of photos from the Mennonitische Volkswarte of Mennonites in Soviet Russia and their buildings built in Imperial Russia, and with one clipping from Der Bote (nd) showing a baptismal group of young Mennonite men and women in Ukraine, 1930

Young women

Twenty-eight young women in Yarrow, BC. Standing (left to right) : unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, Susie (Giesbrecht) Derksen, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown. Sitting on chairs (left to right) : Lena (Nickel) Klassen, Louise (Friesen) Peters, Annie (Derksen) Dyck, Sarah Neufeld, Mary Friesen, Margaret (Peters) Toews, Lena Kroeker, Gertie (Giesbrecht) Abrahams, Mary Epp, Anne (Ewert), Froese, Mary Thiessen. Sitting on the grass : Erna (Martens) Neumann, Mary Goosen, Mary Wedel, Margaret (Reimer) Henry, Agnes (Isaak) Spenst, Lena Bargen, Mary (Derksen) Enns.

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Maedchenheim

Madchenheim in Winnipeg, Manitoba with 25 women. Front row : Amelia Froese, ? Gunther, Mrs. Voth, Tante Marichen Lepp.

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Hymn text slide

Slide with hymn text and a forest scene produced by the United Church Publishing House in Toronto. Slide was likely used in informal church services or youth events at Stirling Avenue. The text is the third verse of "Tell me the old, old story."

Loading truck with cardboard

A man, possibly Maurice Plummer, loads cardboard onto the back of a truck. Behind him is a shed in which a pile of cardboard can be seen. This is possibly the horse shed, no longer extant, behind Stirling Avenue. The cardboard was likely collected by the "Busy Bees," a Stirling junior youth group doing odd jobs for the Crusaders program, for recycling.

Congregation at Sirko, Basma

A large group gathered outside in a village setting. A label on the photograph reads "Congregation at Sirko, Basma." This is likely related to the work of missionaries Lillian and Cyril Forth, with the Sudan Interior Mission. The Stirling Avenue congregation were supporters of the Forths.

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