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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.

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

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.

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.

This fonds contains minutes, reports, correspondence and project files of the board, executive and committees of the Society. An annual report book provides an overview of the activities and projects undertaken to meet the Society's objectives. The records of the board, executive and committees provide more details on the activities and projects. The activities include celebration events, seminars and workshops, research, publication and marketing. This fonds consists of the following types of records:
A) Administrative and Legal Records

• Board and Executive records (constitutions, annual reports, minutes, financial records)

B) Records of the committees and projects
-Fine Arts / Cultural Committee
-Genealogy and Family History Committee
-Research, Scholarship and Publication Committee
-Local History and Historic Sites Committee
-Historic Sites and Monuments Committee
-Membership and Publicity Committee
-Mennonite Book Club (Mennonite Books)
-Finance Committee
-Oral History Committee
-Conscientious Objectors Monument Committee
-125th Anniversary Committee
-Jewish, Mennonite, Ukrainian Conference Committee
-Arnold Dyck Publication project
-Mennonite Artist: Insider as Outsider
-Museo Y Centro Cultural Menonita, A.C
-Manitoba Mennonite Centennial Celebrations

C) Involvement with other organisations
-Involvement with other organizations such as Mennonite World Conference, Institute of Mennonite Studies, Mennonite Historical Society of Canada, Mennonite Encyclopedia, Pembina Hills Historical Society, Neubergthal Heritage Foundation, Canadian Human Rights Museum

D) Photographs
-MMHS Photograph collection

E) Books
-Books published by MMHS

This fonds consists of four series:
-1) Epp Diaries, 1837-1843, 1851-1986
-2) Epp Materials, 1788-1811, 1846, 1878-1955
-3) David G. Epp Family Farm Ledgers, 1927-1986
-4) Epp Family Photograph Collection, [1920's?]

This fonds consists of diaries created by Cleo Heinrichs, photographs she inherited, and a Heinrichs family history book she wrote. The materials document the life and times of a single woman living in southern Manitoba after the Second World War and into the 1970s.

This fonds consists of educational materials created and used by Abram P. Bueckert as well as a large scale composite photograph that includes Bueckert when he served in one of the Mennonite alternative service forestry camp.

The materials in this fonds consists of materials related to the life of Jacob Hoemsen and to the Heidebrecht family. The Homsen materials included letters to and from family members in Russia after WWI, documents, diary, and photos related to Hoemsen's experiences during various wars including the Russo-Japanese war of 1905, and a book of memoirs edited by his daughter Margaret Silver. This fonds is unique as gives details of the various conflicts of the early 20th Century in Russia and how a Mennonite moved from doing alternative service to serving the Russian and German war efforts and actively participating in the Mennonite Selbstschutz (self defense unit).

The Heidebrecht family materials consists of a manuscript by Margaret Silver that, with the help of old letters, reconstructs the life of the Heidebecht family as it struggled to survive in Russia under Stalin and the Soviet governments. Also included are photos and documents to his wife Maria Heidebrecht's experience as a student in Russia. This material is helpful in understanding the experiences of the Mennonites after World War one, the collectivization of the farms, Stalin's purges, labour camps, famine, deportation and exile, great trek to Germany, repatriation to the U.S.S.R., and life in Russia up to the modern era.

This fonds consists of a journal written by Heinrich Heinrichs which covers 1918-1922 including his escape from his time with the Selbstschutz, his time with the Russian White Army, fleeing to Constantinople and finally immigration and his early months in the United States. The first 11 pages of the journal are written in the Russian language and appear to be prose. Pages 12 to 49 are written in German gothic script which has was translated by Heinrich Heinrichs’ nephew Arthur Toews. Between pages 13 and 14, two leaves (4 pages) have been cut out. The family speculates “probably because they were too bad.” Seven photocopied photographs are also included showing the young Heinrichs family and the burial plot of Heinrichs in Detroit.