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This fonds consists of letters written to Cornelius L. Plett by friends and family. They provide a valuable insight into the daily life in Mennonite village settlements in Canada, U.S., and Mexico in the first two decades of the twentieth century, as they discuss village and church dynamics, as well as personal issues and challenges of the writers. Most of these letters are written in the German Ghotic Script.

This fonds consists of a translation of a diary started by Jacob J. Dyck. It shows the day to day events in his family's life including church services and the operation of the mill. After Jacob's death, the diary is continued by his widow Maria until 1935, when she marries minister Johann Rempel. The diary records the hardships of life in Russia.

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.

This collections consists mainly of the village books covering the period 1875-1936, with a few gaps. The records record financial affairs of the village such as the levies on village inhabitants. There are also a set of community announcements (1917-1918), contracts with village teachers and shepherds, property transactions and other miscellaneous papers(1881-1904).

This fond consists of letters, poems, and other written excerpts which were received and preserved by the family of Cornelius and Elisabeth Froese. The items give a picture of life in the former Soviet Union during the 1930s. They show the sense of dire poverty, poor crops, and loss of property and goods. They speak of life working in a collective farm and the difficulties created when the required food or fees could not be raised. One letter comes from Brazil, where another family member emigrated. A few letters seems to be from a later period when it was possible to travel between the USSR and Canada and visit relatives. Two letters were translated by John Froese (1924-2012). The remainder of the items were translated by the Mennonite Heritage Centre volunteer Ed Enns in 2012.

This fonds contains sermons collected by Jake Peters in conjunction with his research on the Sommerfeld Mennonite church, and three sermons based on the scripture passages: Psalm 22:11, Hebrews 4:14-16, and Luke 22:7-16 were collected by the Christian Heritage Library.

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.

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.

This fonds contains a collection of sermons in German (1936-1941), and correspondence, minutes and reports related to the Nordheimer Church (Dundurn, Saskatchewan), Conference of Mennonites in Canada annual conferences, the Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization, and the German English Academy. Materials are both handwritten and typewritten.

This fonds consists of Peter H. Enns' personal papers concerning both his church work and his personal life. The latter includes correspondence with his brother and his memoirs. Most of the material is handwritten in Gothic script, with some typewritten material.