Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1889-1979 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
35 photographs (2 series)
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
In 2017, James VanDyck deposited a collection of photo albums and documents related to the Nicholas Fehderau family. He did this on behalf of Lillian L. Fehderau-Dyck, his mother and Nicholas's daughter.
Many of these Fehderau photos had already been scanned by Linda Huebert Hecht for the Molotschna Bicentennial Photo Project 2004 (see CA CMBS NP164-04 as well as CA MAO M2004F).
The 2017 deposition (Acc. No. 2017-21) includes many (though not all) of the originals scanned by Linda for the 2004 project. The meta-data accompanying an image indicates which are based on an original photograph and which are based on scans.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The collection contains photographs depicting aspects of Nicholas J. Fehderau's family's life in the city of Halbstadt (Ukraine) and on his family's farming estate up to 1924, when he immigrated to Canada.
Also, the collection includes several other images showing Nicholas's Canadian life in Kitchener, Ontario, especially as a choir conductor.
The Nicholas J. Fehderau photo collection includes more than the 31 scanned images in this collection (see also NP164-04 for more photographs).
The collection documents the assumptions, motivation, vision, and everyday life of one Mennonite estate family, the Fehderau family.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Accession Nos. 2002-007, 2003-004, 2017-21
Note
See Nicholas J. Fehderau's published memoir, "A Mennonite Estate Family in Southern Ukraine, 1904-1924," translated by Margaret Harder and Elenore Fehderau-Fast, and edited by Anne Konrad (Pandora Press, 2013).
Note
See also the 83 Fehderau family photos in the Molotschna Colony Photograph Collection, 2004, series #4.
NP164-04 @ https://archives.mhsc.ca/fehderau-family-molotschna-colony-photograph-collection
Note
See also Nicholas J. Fehderau Personal Papers collection. The file list itemizes the Fehderau documents held at the CMBS archives.
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Fehderau, Nicholas J., 1904-1989 (Subject)
- Fehderau, Jacob, 1865-1922 (Subject)