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This collections consists of published pamphets, booklets and term papers. The collection is divided into 3 series:

• 1) Doctrine
• 2) Peace and War
• 3) Churches

This collection has been organized into 4 categories (series):
1) a box containing audio recordings of several public events
2) records of family reunions and associated genealogical records
3) Theses and dissertations (13 items)
4) Local school and municipal records, and maps.

This collection of archival resources about Mennonites in Manitoba was organized into 8 different categories (series):

• 1) Immigration
• 2) Early settlement (1874-1900)
• 3) Anniversary programs
• 4) Mennonite Centennial & 125th
• 5) Years 1900-1925
• 6) Years 1925-1950
• 7) Years 1950-
• 8) Mennonite Heritage

This collections holds archival items that persons have contributed to the EMC Archives. The materials have been classified usually by the name of the donor or collector, and occassionally by the name of a corporate body or creator of the materials. The classified "Name" was also assigned a number sequentially as the collections were processed and appears in parenthesis after the name. There are over 70 names under which the "Persons" archival collection has been classified. The content ranges from family papers, church records, school and community records, diaries and financial accounts and other historical writings.

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 collection consists of correspondence among the J.J. Siemens family predominantly from daughter Viola and son John when they were in college in the United States and to a lesser degree from J.J. Siemens and his wife Marie Siemens. There are some speeches and correspondence by J.J. Siemens related to the Rhineland agricultural Society, Consumer's Cooperative, Co-op Vegetables Oils Ltd., and cooperatives generally as well as newspaper clippings. Publications regarding co-operatives and Mennonite History are also found in this fonds. There is one small file consisting of correspondence and research notes regarding the writing of a Siemens biography.

This material gives a glimpse into the life of J.J. Siemens as an important individual in western Canada and the Mennonite community. The documents show some of his activities with co-operatives and agriculture. This collection also gives a window into the lives of his adult children and Siemens family dynamics.

The collection consists of four 3 ringed binders with pages in plastic sleeves containing vital statistics, narratives, reproduced documents and some original photographs documenting the lives of Cornelius Klaassen and his descendants.

This collection consists of the 95 files which Dr. Rempel selected from the St. Petersburg Archive related to Mennonites which he requested to have microfilmed in 1962. The St. Petersburg (known as Leningrad at the time) Archive holds the documents of the Russian Senate (later referred to as the Duma) for the period of 1789 to 1917.

This collections contains a photocopy of a journal written in 1919 by a young woman, Katharina Hildebrandt (1901-1920), who was engaged to be married to Johann Isaac Warkentin, who was murdered on 26 October 1919 in Eichenfeld, South Russia. The collection also includes a Hildebrandt family register of birth and death dates of the children of Heinrich David Hildebrandt (1870-1919), father of Katharina, who also was murdered at the Eichenfeld massacre on October 26, 1919. Another item is a 1988 transcript of an interview of Isaac Warkentin (1908), a brother of Johann who died in 1919.

This collection consists of 50 letters written by members of the Peter Schroeder and Johann Fast families from 1930-1988. These are letters which the David and Agatha Fast family of Manitoba received from members of the family who were left behind in the Soviet Union when they emigrated in 1929-1930. Of the 50 letters, 42 were written between 1930-1934, and the remaining 8, scattered widely over the period from 1939-1988. They convey the experiences of the terrifying Stalinist years and convey glimpses into how life unfolded for the family.

This collection consists of correspondence, a travel diary, condolence cards, short biographies, and photographs related to bishop David Toews, his work, and his family. Together with the related materials this collection shows the depth of involvement Bishop Toews had in the Mennonite community and how he, as one of the most influential Mennonite leaders of his time, dealt with forces from within and without the Mennonite community for the good of the Canadian Mennonite community.

This fonds consists of research files collected by Jake Peters with the unrealized hope of writing a history of the Sommerfeld Mennonite Church. The materials are a mix of copied and original materials in German and English that detail the experiences of the Sommerfeld Mennonite Church and its leaders. Peters started as early as 1979 with the collection of materials when he conducted interviews in the villages of Sommerfeld and Neubergthal about the early history of the Sommerfeld Mennonite Church. On this trip he collected some materials which he deposted at MHC much earlier than the bulk of materials. The collection has been divided into the following twenty-two categories primarily by the compiler.
1) Bibliography research
2) Endeavors at writing Sommerfeld History
3) Sommerfelder pre history
4) Early observers of West Reserve Life
5) General leadership oriented historical file
6) Sommerfeld Church and the wars
7) Minutes and correspondence from ministers
8) Migration
9) Schisms
10) Church meetings functions, and activities
11) Statistical data
12) Ideology, theology and sermons
13) Social concerns and broader involvement
14) Local congregations and people
15) General West Reserve materials
16) Various Sommerfeld diaspora communities
17) Swift Current and Herbert area Sommerfeld Mennonite Church
18) Assorted non Sommerfelder research materials
19) Addendum
20) bulletins and correspondence
21) Early collection of materials related to the Sommerfeld church in Neubergthal and Sommerfeld
22) Photographs.

This genealogical collection is primarily contained in four large binders that include family group sheets, photographs, maps, original and photocopies of documents and correspondence. Each binder traces the ancestral lines of Kathy Peters (Dueckmann on her mother's side and Goerzen on her father's side) and her husband, Ed;'s families (Peters and Braun).