Children's Camp

The Scratching River Post clipping regarding Mexico colonization. December 11, 1978. German.

This collection consists of copies of the photos collected by Cornelius Krause from a Mexican land agent that traveled with Krause and other Mennonite delegates from Manitoba and Saskatchewan who were investigating the possibility of the migration of a group of Mennonites from Canada to Mexico and photos taken by Cornelius Krause himself while investigating Mexico as a possible country to which a group of Manitoba and Saskatchewan Mennonites could move. The photos which Krause took himself show people and places visited on the trip in Mexico (Collection 592). The photos by the land agent (Collection 590) taken before the arrival of the Mennonite delegation and during their visit to Mexico. The photos were taken to encourage the Mennonites to move to Mexico. They show road and railway construction, wide open wild areas, places where there was water, villages, homes, and fields successfully developed by the Old Colony and Sommerfeld Mennonites who had moved to Mexico in 1922.

This fonds consists of letters written to Cornelius L. Plett by friends and family. They provide a valuable insight into the daily life in Mennonite village settlements in Canada, U.S., and Mexico in the first two decades of the twentieth century, as they discuss village and church dynamics, as well as personal issues and challenges of the writers. Most of these letters are written in the German Ghotic Script.

This photo is of a couple in front of a large stone monument in Mexico. Helen Harder Loewen and Peter Loewen. -- Note: this photo came from a box labeled 1978 II Mexico City, Quito Equade, Downtown in Quito.

This is a photo of a crossorads in Mexico, with stores on each corner. There is a green truck coming towards the camera. See volume 1242, scrapbook 01, pg 09.