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Caption in Risk and Endurance: "The Wendell and Anna Shantz family had numerous Waterloo County Mennonite connections. Many would become members of Stirling. Front, left to right: Anna ("Nancy") Bowman Shantz, Alberta ("Bertie"), Melinda, Sydney, Wendell Erb Shantz. Back, left to right: Louida, Urias, Allan, Susannah ("Susie")."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "The Isadore and Hannah Snyder farmhouse. The farm is now the location of Sheppard Public School and the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium."

A formal photograph of the Benjamin M. and Esther (Brubacher) Eby family. Front row (left to right): Vera (Eby) Hurst, Esther (Brubacher) Eby, Beulah (Eby) Shantz, Ada (Eby) Shantz, Benjamin M. Eby, Alpheus Eby. Back row (left to right): Elmina "Mina" (Eby) Shantz, Phares Eby, Mabel (Eby) Bearinger, Samuel Eby, Luella (Eby) Snider.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Mary Snyder, [sic] active in church and community." She was the matron of the Berlin Orphanage (beginning in 1896) and the first president of the Stirling Women's Missionary Society.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "This picture caused quite a stir. Ida Bergey, Eva Bergey, and Laura Shantz in California. (circa 1908)." A Mennonite bishop at home in Waterloo region wanted the women to apologize for wearing fashionable hats instead of Mennonite bonnets while on their trip to California to work as maids. In the photograph, two of the women are standing, while one sits on the back of an ostrich. Left to right: Laura Shantz, Ida Bergey, Eva Bergey.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Berlin (First) Mennonite Church, 1913. Stirling would be built "up the hill" behind this church."

Children and grandchildren of John M. and Angeline (Rudy) Brubaker. Front row (left to right): Russell Baer, Luanna (Brubaker) Baer, Evelyn Brubaker, Edwin Brubaker, Dorothy Brubaker. Back row (left to right:): Melvin Baer, Abraham (Ray) Brubaker, Leona Brubaker, Clara Brubaker.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Susannah Cressman with Fred, her daughter Laura's son. The occasion was a visit by Laura and Milton from their 'home in the far west.'"

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Two church friends, Estella Weber and Vera Cressman." Vera (Cressman) Weaver and Estella L. Weber.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "WMS Picnic at the I.K. Weber residence on Schneider Avenue, c. 1930."

Mary (Braun) Harder (1910-1937) as a bride in Arnaud, Manitoba in 1931. She married Abram A. Harder. This black and white photograph was colourized.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Young men on an outing to Jackson Point [on Lake Simcoe], 1934. [Left to right]: Wilfred Meyer, Russel Shantz, Edward Shantz, Edward Weber, Gordon Snyder."

Vineland United Mennonite Church on Victoria Avenue, nearing the end of construction, 1935. Congregants are exiting from the building.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church with horse sheds in the back. (circa 1935)"

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Alice Bachert examines Idali in a Columbia marketplace. The girl had recently lost a brother and sister to illness."