This fonds includes correspondence between William Baerg with colleagues and friends. Many of these correspondences are between Baerg and the Mennonite Brethren Bible College (MMBC), Peabody Institute, and the University of Manitoba. Programs, reviews, articles, and photographs of Winnipeg Singers, Bach Festival, Mennonite Community Orchestra, and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. Irmgard Baerg’s professional correspondence, recital and concert programs, photos, newspaper reviews and articles published about her. Both series highlight the successful and extensive careers of each individual.
This fonds contains a ledger containing family and genealogical data, including some church transfer documents, 16 sermon booklets and additional loose pages, a personal date book (Christliches Vergissmeinnicht), and several other documents created or collected by Peter J. Dyck. There is an English translation of a sermon written by P.J. Dyck on the occasion of the "sudden and self-inflicted death of a person whose passing causes the bereaved great sorrow" which is of note.
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.
Froese family (Descendants of Cornelius H. 1896 and Elisabeth 1901)
This fonds consists of a sampling of key documents which Ike Froese preserved from his life’s passion and work related to how he worked within the Mennonite Church to relate and minister amoung North American aboriginal people. Correspondence, news clippings, and research papers are found in this fonds. The files include information on the history of Mennonite Pioneer Mission and Conference of Mennonites in Canada Native Ministry programs, especially from 1970 to 1980, but also there are a few documents from the 1980s and 1990s. The fonds contains one series of textual materials and another of photographs, which show people, place and events of significance to his life.
This fonds consists of mainly the poetry which Peter Kroeger wrote. There are a few sample engineering drawings, correspondence, sketches of Manitoba scenes by his brother Arthur, and a few miscelleneous documents which he collected. Much of the poetry was submitted to the editors of the German language Mennonite newspaper called Der Bote or to the producers of Faith and Life Communications Low German Radio broadcast. The poems were written for various occasions, seasons, institutions and people -- mainly in German and Low German, and occasionally in English. At least one poem was selected for publicaion by "The National Library of Poetry" (Owings Mills, Maryland, USA) in 1996. (See Vol. 1655:11).
This fonds contains a series of journals begun in Russia in 1908 and continued in Canada after 1923. Parts were written while the writer was still living in Nikolaifeld, then Arkadak, and finally in Hanley, Saskatchewan. There are transcriptions and translations with the materials which were completed by the MHC volunteer staff Jake Friesen in 2008.
This fonds consists of family documents, unpublished genealogies, a computer database and 83 photographs. Many of the genealogies are computer generated reports based on data that Ed Schellenberg collected and compiled for himself and others interested in Mennonite family history. Some of surnames of the families he researched included Schellenberg, Rempel, Braun, Barkman, Falk, Schlabach, Warkentin and Reimer.
This fonds consists of a set of personal journals from 1936 to 2011, which records people that visited Helena Thiessen, places Helena visited and the activities of those she lived close to. There is also a series of notebooks containing personal notes, sometimes attending to loved ones who were in the last days of life in the hospital. Contained in this fonds are also some items which she acquired from her father, mother, sisters and brothers, as well as some person memorabilia like a recipe book, book of her school art work and the record of her baptism. A significant item is the friendship book started by her grandparents, Johann J. and Elizabeth Loewen, which contains birth, marriage and death dates of many friends and family members. The fonds also contains several hundred letters which she received from her parents, siblings and friends.
This fonds contains mainly letters received from siblings who remained in the homeland (Russia/Soviet Union) written in the post-revolution era, after Johann J. and Helena Wiens immigrated to Canada. The letters describe experiences of family, exile and complete disruption of their way of life as the communist regime developed. There is a 19-year period of no letter exchange beginning in 1937 when Stalin initiated an horrendous purge of anyone that might be a threat to his regime. After Stalin's death, things began to change slowly, and starting in 1956 contact was again established and another series of letter were exchanged. This fonds includes letters which Johann received from his sister Anna Siemens, his brother Jacob's family, his brother Peter Wiens and his sister Liese Letkemann. There are also some letters from relatives, David and Justina Kasper, Gertrude (Enns) Regehr and others. In addition to the letters from Russia, this fonds also contain two notebooks -- one consisting of the Wiens family register compiled by Johann J. Wiens, and the other a 1948 trip diary and address book created by Helena Wiens.
This fond consists of nine series. They include: -1) Linguistics; -2) Russian / Prussian Mennonite history; -3) World War Two history; -4) Education; -5) Anabaptist history (with a sub series on catechisms); -6) Theology; -7) Genealogy; -8) Russian history; -9) Philosophy and History. These series contain handwritten notes, manuscripts by the author, card indexes, photocopies, pictures, micro media, and a few original documents. The numerous photocopies and micro media are of books and articles, some of which are extremely rare. It is difficult to determine when the copies or notes were made: therefore, the creation date of the files are often [19-], meaning between 1900-1999. In many cases, the correspondence and manuscripts are the only way to date his research. In some cases, the date of publication is not known and an estimate was made.
This fonds consists of eleven series reflecting the life of a Mennonite minister, teacher and administrator who spent most of his life working with the church and its institutions and programs. The series are: -1. Pastoral work, 1937-1975 -2. Mennonite conferences, 1939-1973 -3. CMBC, 1945-1972 -4. Teaching notes and student assignments, 1945-1973 -5. Schools attended and student work, 1930-1972 -6. Topical files, 1938-1974 -7. Personal files, 1918-1974 -8. Elsie's personal files, 1918-1995 -9. Bethel Mennonite Church (Winnipeg), 1939-1974 -10. Sermon collection, 1939-1974 -11. Photograph collection, 189-?, 1926-1975.
This fonds consists of correspondence of the Enns - Toews family in Canada, Russia, Brazil, and Germany to and from family and friends. Also included are diaries eleven photographs, two Russian estate maps and one audio cassette. This fonds can be divided in to nine series. -1) John H. Enns papers -2) Elise Enns papers -3) Anna Toews papers -4) Gerhard Enns papers -5) Gerhard Martens papers -6) Various Family members papers -7) Photographs -8) David Enns papers -9) Luise (Enns) Martens papers.
This fonds includes two photograph collections -- the one contains images of people (friends and family), some buildings and some scenes of places (Coll. 166) ; the other collection contains mainly photos taken on trips (Coll 360). The textual materials relates largely to the family history of the Hamms. Some material is autobiographical and deals with Heinrich H. Hamm's involvements in municipal life. There is a personal financial ledger. There is some travel literature relating to his trips to Europe and the Middle East, and a few cards and letters to complete the collection.
The collection is most useful to researchers seeking illustrations of social life and modes of transportation during the period 1900-1945 in the Canadian prairies, specifically in Manitoba.
This fonds consists of six series: Peter & Mary Koop correspondence, Manuscripts & Books, Verses, Poems & Songs, Koop family history materials, Heidi Koop materials, Photograph Collection, Map Collection.
