The David Agatha Fast fonds consists of records created, accumulated, and used records by David and Agatha Fast of Chortitz, East Reserve, Manitoba, between 1929 and 1996. The materials include immigration papers to come to Canada (1929), settlement documents, repayment of travel debt, farm account books (1931-1960), income tax papers (1943-1962), sermons, minister notebooks, notes from East Reserve Inter-Mennonite meetings and conferences, committee meeting minutes, Canadian passports, and wills. Also included in the record is a family bible that belonged to Johan Fast (b. 1860), and 2 copies of “We Must Adapt: The Schroeder-Fast letters 1930-1988" 1st and 2nd editions. Additionally, there are 4 optical disks of interviews with David and Agatha Fast as well as 3 handwritten dispensation charts (in map storage).
David attended Inter-Mennonite meetings and conferences in the East Reserve and collected programs, minutes, and invitations to interdenominational church conferences. Also among these documents are provincial government pamphlets on alcohol and correspondence with Manitoba Temperance Alliance. All of these records are in Volume 6478.5. United Ministers and Deacons minutes. – 1942-1966.
