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Fonds is arranged in the following series:
1) Diaries, November/December 1947 - (1 file) Box 199
2) Correspondence, 1947 (3 files) - Box 199
3) Minutes & Reports, 1946-1956 - (1 file) Box 199
4) Financial Records, 1950, 1954 - (1 file) Box 199
5) Reports, 1926-1954 - (1 file) Box 199
6) Research Material, 1936-1954 - (4 files) Box 199
7) Board of Colonization, 1931-1935, 1947 - (3 files) Box 199
8) Reiseschuld, 1939 - (1 file) Box 199
9) Sir Edward Beatty Visit to Coaldale, AB - 1937 - (1 file) Box 199
10) Personal Meditations, Herb Klassen - (1 file) Box 199
11) Clippings - (1 file) Box 199
12) Photographs (including photocopies) - (1 file) Box 199
13) Ephemera - (1 file) Box 199

Series consists of the following files:
1) Correspondence Jacob A Harder With Sisters and Others - 1933-1935
2) Correspondence Jacob A Harder With Siblings - 1933
3) Correspondence Jacob A Harder With Wife and Children - 1955
4) Correspondence Jacob A Harder With B B Janz - 1937-1957
5) Correspondence Jacob A Harder With Mission Board Volume 1 - 1944-1956
6) Correspondence Jacob A Harder With Mission Board Volume 2 - 1957-1966
7) Correspondence - Jacob A Loewen - 1992-2001
8) Correspondence - 1999-2000
9) Correspondence - 2001

This file consists of the following:
1) Military Service Act, Mennonites are to be exempt and free by the Law of Canada from serving in military either in the time of peace or war. 29 pages. J H. Doerr, Department of Justice.
2) Correspondence with the Department of the Secretary of State, Canada showing documents relating to the advantages and immunities offered to Mennonite settlers.intending to emigrate to Canada. John Lowe was the Minister of Agriculture. David Klassen, Jacob Peters, Heinrich Wiebe and Cornelius Toews were the delegates from South Russia.11 pages.
3) Department of Agriculture document outlining Homestead Rights and Exemptions from Military Service; 1973. 1 page. Box 261

Self Defense began as a spontaneous movement by Mennonites to protect lives and property during the period of violent anarchy following the Russian Revolution in 1918-1919. - (24 files) Box 255

This files consists of the following;
1) B.B. Janz, "Die Wehrlosigkeit der Mennoniten in Russland nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg", 1919, German, report on the Mennonitischen Sanitaet-Dienst in WW I (medics). 8 pages.
2) Jacob H. Block, "Mennoniten im Sanitaets-Dienst waerends des Ersten Weltkrieges, 4 pages
3) Dienst der Mennoniten Russlands im ersten Weltkrieg.. An unsigned response to a questionaire sent to John B. Toews. 1 page Box 258
4) C. H. Tiessen, "Zur Frage: Sanitaetsdienst 1914-1918", 9 pages
5) Fast, Henrich, " Experiences of Henry Fast Sr. in Russia 1914 to 1923" . Osterwick, Altcolonie, 30 pages, English.
AND "Memories of Henry Fast" ( Re: Immigration from Russia), 1922, 1923, 9 pages, English. Also references Immigration to Canada in 1923.

File consists of the following items:
1.1 B.B. Janz "Wir haben gesuendigt",German, 4 pages. English translation, "We have sinned" 6 pages; Peter Baerg "Der Selbstschutz in der Halbstaedter Wollost 1918-1919" (letter lists names of individuals murdered in Blumenort); "Ein Selbstschuetzler Erzaehlt", "Eine Woche in Podwod mit Pferd und Wagen",
1.2) John Wall Letter to B.B. Janz" Mennonite Participation in Colonist's Brigade", 1951
1.3) Anonymous letters to B.B. Janz, " The Selbstschutz in the Halbstadt Volost" (1918-1919)od (mit Pferd und Wagen) 1919.
1.4) J.G. Dyck letters, Leamington, Ontario, 1956.
1.5) A. P. Bergmann letter , Steinbach, 1956
1.6) J.N. Wittenberg, "Etliche Hauptmomente von dem Mordtag in Altenau I'm Oktober 1919" 2 pages, translated by John B. Toews
1.7) P. Goossen, "The Makhno Bands in Zagradovka" , 1919, 2 pages translated by John B. Toews
1.8) B.B. Janz." Abschiedsede von Bruder B.B. Janz" Tiege,1926, 6 pages.

2) Folksfreund Articles written in 1918 by Jacob Martens, A. Klassen, Peter Braun, Enns, Elder H. Unruh, Abraham Kroeker,
H. Neufeld, Translated by John B. Toews. - (1 file) Box 255

This file consists of the following:
1) H. H.Goossen letter to B. B. Janz "Einige Erlebnisse unseres Volkes in Sued Russland in den Jahren des ersten Weltkrieges bis zur ersten Auswanderung. Translated into English "A few Experiences of our People in South Russia during the Years of W.W. I and until the Emigration, 1915." 17 pages
2) H.H. Goossen, "Unsere grosse Vaterlandsliebe und Treure zum Kaisertrone erhaelt einen Schlag und wird schwer geprueft"
3) Anonymous, "Selbsterlebtes" 1918-1919, 8 pages (German) - (1 file) Box 255

This series contains the following:
1) Correspondence and documents, February to December 1921
2) Correspondence and documents, January to March 1922
3) Correspondence and documents, April to May 1922
4) Correspondence and documents, June to July 1922
5) Correspondence and documents, August to September, 1922
6) Correspondence and documents, October, November, December, 1922
7) Correspondence and documents, January, February, 1923
8) Correspondence and documents, March, April, May, 1923
9) Correspondence and documents, June, July, August, 1923
10) Correspondence and documents, September to December, 1923
11) Correspondence and documents, January, February, 1924
12) Correspondence and documents, March, April, May, 1924
13) Correspondence and documents, June, July, August, 1924
14) Correspondence and documents, September, October, 1924
15) Correspondence and documents, November, December, 1924
16) Correspondence and documents, January to May, 1925
17) Correspondence and documents, June to December, 1925 - (17 files) Box 257

143 North America delegates at Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren churches are posing outdoors at the side of a building. Back row (sixteenth from left): Jacob Siemens. Fourth row (ninth from left) : David Pankratz. Third row (twentieth from left): J.A. Toews. (twenty-first from left) Isaac Tiessen. (twenty-sixth from left) B.B. Fast, (twenty-eighth from left) Dietrich Rempel. Second row (second from left): Heinz Klassen. Front row (ninth from left): Johann Harder, (tenth from left): H.H. Janzen, (eleventh from left): B.B. Janz, (twelfth from left): A.H. Unruh, (eighteenth from left) F.C. Thiessen