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This photo is of the Mennonite delegates from Russia preparing to depart from the Federal Dominion Lands Office in Winnipeg to inspect the East Reserve. Government officials and even some Native people are present in the photo (note: this is only a copy of the original).

This photo is of the S.S. International arriving in Winnipeg with Mennonite immigrants.

This photo show the extended family of Vietnamese refugees that were received by Home Street Mennontie Church. Home Street members (l-r): Michael Thiessen, Henry Thiessen, Jackie Thiessen, Tina Letkemann, John R. Friesen, Olga Teichroeb and Abe Teichroeb. The Vietnamese family consisted of Tan Mau Ngo and his wife Bao Chanh Ngo with their 3 children My Quyen, Kieu Quyen and Tuan Hung; plus four siblings of the wife Bao Chank, Tich Chanh, My Chanh, Thoi Trung and Thoi Phuong Cung.

This is a copy of a photo showing families boarding a freight train car in preparation to leave Russia in the 1920s. About four families lived in one of these small freight cars for about two weeks en route to Riga, providing their own food along the way. Photograph in Gerhard Lohrenz, HERITAGE REMEMBERED: A Pictorial Survey of Mennonites in Prussia and Russia, revised and enlarged (Canadian Mennonite Bible College, 1977), 264.

This photo is of a group of refugee boys getting food from MCC.

This is composite image of the passport photos of some of the Susanna Funk family members (daughter and sons with spouses) that emigrated from Russia to Canada. They came in three separate groups, two in July 1923 and one in December 1926.

This is a photo of a large group of men, women and children posed in front of a building. Arthur Slagel has identified it as "Lechfeld, 1923". Germany provided this temporary camp in Bavaria for the Mennonite immigrants en route to Canada.

This is a photo of Mennonites in Southern Russia boarding trains. They were leaving for Canada. Parting was bitter. Many knew that it was for life. [HR 264]

This was the 2nd train of emigrants that departed in early July 1924 from the Lichtenau train station. The names Philip D. Cornies, P.D. Nickel, H. H. Bartel plus 2 more in Russian script are written on the top corner of this item.

This photo is of Mennonite boarding the train at Lichtenau, Molotschna in July 1924 to immigrate to Canada. People are standing in the box car and around the door on the ground posing for a photo. In the box car far right is Benjamin B. Janz (BB Janz). This was the 2nd train departing in early July 1924.

Emigrants departure on train in Lichtenau station, Russia 1924.

En route the emigrants stayed in Atlantic Park Hostel which was operated by Canadian Pacific-Cunard White Star Steamship lines near Eastleigh, England. The hostel consisted of barracks and offices.

This photo is of the farewell gathering in the village of Tiegenhagen in July 1924. Almost the whole village left for Canada.
First row, sitting on ground (l-r): Agnes Braun (Rempel), Justina Enns (Rempel), Maria Doerksen (Schulz), Maria Willms (Kornelsen), Margareta Wiebe, Lydia Enns (Jordan), Emma Kronrad (Grimm), Olga Loewen (Grimm), Sara Schulz.
Second row (l-r): Anna Braun (Friesen), Mrs. Woelk (Braun), Anna Poetker, Lena Warkentin (Wiebe), Aganetha ?, Aganetha Dahl, Maria Kornelsen (Konrad), Helena Loewen (Friesen), Katharina Astakhoff (Enns), Anna Boese, Kornelius Braun, Gerhard Schellenberg.
Third row (l-r): Maria Wiens (Braun), Sara Schellenberg (Kornelsen), Anna Dueck (Braun), Sara Braun (Friesen), Sara Poetker, ? Warkentin, Liese Schulz (Wiebe), Margareta Loewen, Anna Epp (Loewen), Lena Dahl (Boese), Katharina Thiessen (Kornelsen).
Fourth row (l-r): Sara Penner (Enns), Maria Wiebe, Greta Loewen (Fast), Anna Wiebe, Anna Rempel (Reimer), Lena Warkentin, Maria Friesen, Liese Tiessen (Woelk), Agnes Warkentin, Maria Schulz (Wiebe), Sara Rempel (Wiebe), Lena Dahl (Rempel), Aganeta Pauls (Enns), Liese Poetker (Braun), Margaret Loepp (Nickel).
Fifth row (l-r): Heinirch Enns, Jacob Penner, Johann Konrad, Peter Konrad, Jacob Braun, Gerhard Dick, Wilhelm Rempel, Wilhelm Schulz, Jacob Willms, Johann Wiebe, Abram Dahl, Peter Dahl, Johann Poetker, Peter Kornelsen, Wilhelm Loewen.
Sixth row (l-r): Heinirch Rempel, Jacob Braun, Peter Willms, Heinirch Schulz, Abram Loepp, Jacob Fast, Jacob Loepp, Heinrich Willms, Jacob Dahl, Gerhard Braun, Wilhelm Loewen.
Seventh row (l-r): Jacob Braun, Kornelius Woelk, Kornelius Loepp, Johann Loewen, Peter Reimer, Nicolai Enns, Abram Dahl, ? Warkentin, Jacob Schulz, Jacob Wiebe, Heinrich Poetker, Heinrich Loewen.

Postcard of a gate at the border of the Soviet Union, probably at Latvia. The view is looking towards the Soviet Union. Neufeld relatives of the Penner family crossed through this gate in 1924. Description accompanying photograph reads: "Gate exiting Russia that Oma and Opa Neufeld's train passed through, 1924." "Oma and Opa Neufeld" are Peter Neufeld and Gertrude (Fast) Neufeld. The writing on the arch (in Russian) translates, in part: "SSSR: Greetings to the workers of the West." On the columns supporting the arch, the left one translates "Long live the commune." The right one translates "Death to capitalism." The writing on the bottom, likely in Latvian, possibly refers to the Latvian town of Zilupe on the Russian border.

This photo is of Mennonites boarding a train at Lichtenau, south Russia. In foreground is a group of boys, and background is the train.