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Mennonite Archives of Ontario James Reusser photograph collection Waterloo (Ontario)
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Schoolhouse in Waterloo Park, Ontario

On slide: "Old School-Waterloo Park" This is the 1820 schoolhouse built on land donated for that purpose by Abraham Erb in 1820. In 1843, a stone schoolhouse was built nearby and the log structure was moved to the Greenbush area between the towns of Berlin and Waterloo where it stood for 50 years. In 1875, the first Berlin/Waterloo high school was built beside it. While at Greenbush, it housed the family of African-Canadian Levi Carroll. Isaac E. Bowman, MPP, arranged for the old schoolhouse to return to Waterloo in 1894 and it eventually became part of Waterloo Park.

Sod turning at Conrad Grebel College in 1963

Ground-breaking ceremony for Conrad Grebel College, October 5, 1963. L-R: Newton Gingrich (Mennonite Conference of Ontario), Henry Yantzi (Western Ontario Mennonite Conference), J. Winfield Fretz (Conrad Grebel College), Henry P. Epp (United Mennonite Conference), Douglas Millar (Stirling Ave. Mennonite Church).