Women's groups

Group of Women in 1920s

CA CMBS NP132-01-18
Item
[192-?]

Part of Shirley Bergen Photograph Collection

A studio portrait of a group of 25 women. Unidentified.

Womens aid meeting

CA MHSBC 2-6-4-2018.076.059
Item
1950

Part of Bethel Mennonite Church fonds

24 women, members of Bethel Ladies Aid, are assembled ourtdoors.

Canadian women's conference, St. Catharines

CA MAO XV-19.3-1992-14-2978
Item
1962

Part of The Canadian Mennonite photograph collection

Used in the CM 10-34-5 with art. View from the front of the women in the audience at the Canadian women's conference at St. Catharines United Mennonite Church.

Unknown

Women sew bedspreads for Grebel residence

CA MAO 2013-1 141
Item
1965

On 8 Sept 1965, 42 Mennonite women finished 106 bedspreads for the residence of Conrad Grebel College.

Unknown

Women sew beadspreads for Grebel residence

CA MAO 1989-9 2
Item
1965

42 Mennonite women contributed $1,000.00 worth of work on Sept. 8, 1965, resulting in 106 finished bedspreads for all the beds of CGC residences. J. Winfield Fretz standing in centre; Adeline Brenneman.

Hunsberger, David L.

Helene Toews, founder of the Ontario women's group

CA MAO XIII-1.5.2.2-32
Item
[1972?]

Part of Ontario Women in Mission photographs

Helen Toews (left, in wheelchair) being presented a basket of fruit by Katie Dyck. The setting appears to be her room in a care home. She was the founder and first president of what became Ontario Mennonite Women in Mission.This presentation was possibly made in conjunction with a celebration of the 25th anniversary of Ontario Women in Mission at Niagara United Mennonite Church in 1972, or might have been a visit at Christmas.

Ontario Women in Mission photographs

CA MAO XIII-1.5.2.2
File
1972-1989

Photographs taken at Ontario Mennonite Women in Mission events, and also at some activities of the women's groups in their local churches

Huebert, Anne

Vineland Helfende Haende picnic

CA MAO XIII-1.5.2.2-42
Item
1973

Part of Ontario Women in Mission photographs

"Helping Hands," one of the women's groups of Vineland United Mennonite Church

Friendship quilt by a United Mennonite women's group

CA MAO XIII-1.5.2.2-18
Item
[after 1975]

Part of Ontario Women in Mission photographs

A quilt on display, possibly at a meeting of the Ontario Mennonite Women in Mission. This is a "friendship quilt" with embroidered names of women on each patch. A label attached to the quilt indicates it was made by a ladies' group of a United Mennonite Church, possibly Niagara United Mennonite, probably for one of its members. The last date visible on the quilt is 1975.

Bethany women's group making bandages

CA MAO XIII-1.5.2.2-34
Item
1976

Part of Ontario Women in Mission photographs

Past presidents of Ontario Mennonite Women in Mission

CA MAO XIII-1.5.2.2-43
Item
[ca. 1979]

Part of Ontario Women in Mission photographs

Past presidents of Ontario Women in Mission, in about 1979. Front (left to right): Margaret Dick (not a former president), Helene Toews (founder and first president), Mary Harder. Back (left to right): Margot Fieguth, Katie Dyck.

Women working at the Silver Lake Smorg

CA MAO XIII-1.5.2.2-44
Item
[ca. 1980]

Part of Ontario Women in Mission photographs

The "Maria Martha Verein" in the St. Catharines United Mennonite Church kitchen making wareneki for the annual Silver Lake Smorg fundraiser for Silver Lake Mennonite Camp