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This fonds includes the mayor's records for the civic administration of the village of Rosenort. There are reserve-wide directives that related to all 37 villages of the Reinländer Mennonite church. Also included are the financial records for each family such as the Brotschuld, agreements with teachers and shepherds, the original by-law of the Municipality of Rhineland, school records, and the record of assistance given to widows.

This material shows the organization of the pioneering Reinländer Mennonite church that contributed to their success of establishing thriving communities on the open prairies. It documents the growth and development of the Rosenort area as well as the larger Mennonite community of the Manitoba Mennonite West Reserve.

This fonds is the collection of materials regarding the life of Peter P. J. B. Reimer who worked diligently as an educator in southern Manitoba, as an Evangelical Mennonite Conference minister, a community servant, an historian, a writer, a traveller, and very devoted to his family. The fonds is divided into seven series:
1: Peter J.B. Reimer’s Youth, Family, and his Later Years.
2: PJB Reimer, the Student and the Teacher.
3: PJB Reimer, the Collector: Miscellanea.

4. Peter J.B. Reimer, the Writer.
   5: PJB Reimer, the Historian and Community Servant: Mennonite-history organizations and areas of interest and work outside of his Teaching and Ministry.
   6: PJB Reimer, the Minister: the EMC files (Evangelical Mennonite Conference) and his work as a youth leader, Sunday-school teacher and superintendent, minister, and with MCC.
   7: PJB Reimer, the Chronicler: Forty Years of Journals.

The collection consists of letters written by Mennonites in the Soviet Union before and after the Second World War. They were written by family and friends of Franz Bargen (1894-1976) and his wife Liese (Regehr) Bargen (1897-1976), who immigrated to Canada in 1930.

This collection of letters is divided into two sections -- over 500 letters written between 1930-1938 and almost 800 letters written between 1939-1977, the post-World War II period. There is also one file containing the travel documents for Franz and Liese Bargen when they immigrated to Canada in 1930, as well as a Canadian naturalization document from 1945.

The letters written between 1930 and 1938 present the experiences of over 30 families -- relatives of Franz and Liese Bargen. The first letters originate in Sagradovka, the Mennonite settlement in Ukraine from which families were sent into forced labour camps. Letters between family members in exile and those outside the camps were the the lifeline for many prisoners during this time of terror, brought on by Joseph Stalin's policies. The writers of the letters knew the risks of making contact with "the West" -- prison or execution, yet they continued writing, and letters got through in various circuitous and covert ways. The Bargen family responded with letters, money and packages, knowing that much material would not reach its destination.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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