Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1973-1974 (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
44 color photographs; 12 color 35 mm slides
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Donated to the Archives in 2019 by Hildegard Martens
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Photographs taken by Hildegard Martens and her father, G. J. Martens, in southwestern Ontario, Rainy River in northern Ontario, and Manitoba Colony, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico during her research for a report on Mennonites from Mexico returning to Canada. The research project was directed by Frank H. Epp and funded by Mennonite Central Committee Canada and Canada Manpower and Immigration. Hildegard Martens was the author and researcher, Frank Epp wrote the introduction, and Martens and Epp together wrote the recommendations.
Photographs in this file include pictures of Old Colony and other Low German community Mennonite churches, agricultural activities of Mennonite individuals and families, and street scenes in Mexico.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
The photographs were received in three small albums and a container of slides. The archival classification number prefix for each slide represents its original album location:
1 - Ontario album
2 - Ontario album
3 - Mexico album
4 - Mexico slides
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Conditions governing access
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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Writing files, Frank H. Epp fonds. Mennonite Archives of Ontario, Hist.Mss.1.26.103 -B - M Mexico.
Existence and location of copies
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Publication note
See also:
Martens, Hildegard Margo, and Frank H. Epp. Mennonites from Mexico : Their Immigration and Settlement in Canada : a Research Report Ottawa: [Canada Manpower and Immigration and MCC Canada], 1975.