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COM Slide Presentation-Taiwan: Hope For Success

  • CA MHC 704
  • Collection
  • 1986

This 122 item color slide show depicts the people and landscape of Taiwan and briefly describes Taiwanese politics, history, economics, agriculture, and the Buddhist religion. It is in this context that Mennonite missionaries work. The first Mennonite missionaries came in 1948 and in 1954 the Mennonite Chritian Hospital was built in Hwalien. Church planting has grown from this service. Individuals depicted include Simon Wang, Vincent Chen, Sheldon Sawatzky, Paul Shr, Leona Shr, Helen Willms. -- Note: included is a script and narration on audio cassette tape #2554. There are a few extra photos and after the narration is over another narration starts also about Taiwan but different that this one.

General Conference Mennonite Church. Commission on Overseas Mission

Westgate Mennonite Collegiate fonds

  • CA MHC ORG
  • Fonds
  • 1957-2016

There are six series that make up the Westgate Mennonite Collegiate fonds. Series:

  1. Building and Facilities. -- 1970-2015.
  2. Mennonite Educational Society, Westgate Parents Association, and Committee Minutes. -- [196-?]-2000.
  3. Board of Directors Meeting Minutes, Correspondence, and Reports. -- 1957-2012.
  4. 25th Anniversary Celebration, Alumni, Publications, and Programs. -- 1965-2016.
  5. Canadian Association of Mennonite Schools (CAMS). -- 1990-2014.
  6. Staff Meeting Minutes. -- 1966-2015.

Westgate Mennonite Collegiate (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Jacob Sudermann Photograph Collection

  • CA MHC 725
  • Fonds
  • 1918-1920

This fonds consists of a leather-covered “Snap Shot Album” featuring the face and headdress of an indigenous man burned into the leather. Photographer, J.E. Suderman’s name appears at the top left and the name of his son, H.J. Suderman at the bottom left. Inside are fifty-five (55) black and white photos taken by Jacob Sudermann. Son Harold has supplied photo descriptions which were used as a guide.

Sudermann, Jacob E., 1895-1945

Johann P. Klassen fonds

  • CA MHC PP
  • Fonds
  • 1922-1923

Johann P. Klassen fonds contains documents related to the organizing of the move out of Russia organized by Johann P. Klassen and Abram Vogt (1887-1968). Includes meeting minutes, travel documents, health records, citizenship guarantee records, and correspondence. Also includes some transliteration organized by Margaret Kroeker as well as transliterations and translations done by Peter H. Rempel.

Klassen, John P., 1888-1975

Evangelical Mennonite Conference (Kleine Gemeinde) Fonds

  • CA MHC EMC
  • Fonds
  • 1800-2015

The EMC Archives were intellectually arranged into 9 categories:

  • I. Archives
  • II. EMC Church and Conference (organized into 15 series) (ca. 580 files)
  • III. Congregations (organized by 9 regions) (ca. 360 files)
  • IV. Related Organizations (a number of larger and smaller entities totaling, ca. 280 files)
  • V. Person Collections (numerous collections) (ca. 2600 files)
  • VI. Mennonites in Manitoba (ca. 130 files)
  • VII. Other Materials. (ca. 110 files)
  • VIII. Small archives (pamphlets) (ca. 60 files)
  • IX. Newspapers (ca. 40 files)

Evangelical Mennonite Conference

Al Reimer fonds

  • CA MHC PP
  • Fonds
  • 1917-2015

This fonds consists of materials regarding the life and work of Dr. Elmer Edger Ernest Reimer [“Al Reimer"], a scholar, a professor in the English Department of United College—the University of Winnipeg, a novelist, a writer of short stories and many articles, an historian, a stalwart Mennonite, a traveller, very involved in the Arts, and devoted to his family.
The fonds is divided into eleven series:

  1. Personal: early years and family, most correspondence, and the later years
  2. Student days
  3. University-teaching years
  4. Low-German: the language, works, and writers
  5. Research for Writing his Novel My Harp is Turned to Mourning and for his collection of short stories, Kleindarp
  6. Drafts of Al Reimer’s novel My Harp is Turned to Mourning (1985)
  7. Al Reimer’s transcription, editing, and translations work with A Russian Dance of Death (1977), No Strangers in Exile (1979), and Arnold Dyck’s works (1989)
  8. Literature
  9. Interest and Involvement in the Arts other than Literature
  10. Al Reimer as a Leader of Tours to Europe and Russia (USSR)
  11. Manuscripts sent to Al Reimer by other writers

Reimer, Al, 1927-2015

Johann G. Rempel fonds

  • CA MHC PP
  • Fonds
  • 1917, 1931-1952

This fonds consists of articles written by John G. Rempel ,many of which were published in Der Bote. Some have been translated by his daughter Agnes Wall and some by his brother David. The articles give a first hand account of life in Russia during the tumultuous early 1900s.

Rempel, Johann G., 1890-1963

Leo Driedger fonds

  • CA MHC PP
  • Fonds
  • 1959-1969

This fonds consists of papers collected by Leo Driedger related to his involvement with the Board of Christian Service and the Peace and Social Concerns Committee of the General Conference Mennonite Church during the 1960s. They include peace education materials, meeting dockets and various papers on social issues such as nuclear weapons, everyday ethics and sexuality.

Driedger, Leo, 1928-2020

Slide Presentation-CHM - Open your Eyes to the People

  • CA MHC 573
  • Collection
  • 1991

This slide show was produced by Women in Mission and the Commission on Home Ministries of the General Conference Mennonite Church. The Women in Mission provided funding so that 10 women could travel North America to see the involvements of the General Conference's work through Commission on Home Ministries. The photos for this presentation were provided by these ten women on the trip: Evaleen Bertsche, Earlene Clark, Norma Duerksen, Mary Litwiller, Nettie Neufeld, Holly Olfert, Evelyn Rempel, Shirley Ries, Jan Lisa Wilhelm, Martha Zimmerman. Script was written by Ardie S. Goering. CHM (Commission on Home Ministries) works with the Mennonite churches in North America in overcoming racial and cultural prejudices. It seeks to bring the vision of Christ's ministry to the people of the United States and Canada. CHM works to plant churches in specific cultural groups cross cultural fellowship women in mission Chicago, Washington, Arizona, Toronto, Winnipeg. The photos are illustrative in nature and show people of many different races in daycares, schools, churches, interacting with one another indoors and outdoors. -- Note: with this is a script and a audio cassette #2358.

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