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The Grand River near the sites of the first Mennonite farms in Waterloo region.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Mary Snyder, [sic] active in church and community." She was the matron of the Berlin Orphanage (beginning in 1896) and the first president of the Stirling Women's Missionary Society.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Two church friends, Estella Weber and Vera Cressman." Vera (Cressman) Weaver and Estella L. Weber.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church with horse sheds in the back. (circa 1935)"

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "The Isadore and Hannah Snyder farmhouse. The farm is now the location of Sheppard Public School and the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Rev. J. E. and Mamie Hartzler" Rev. Hartzler, a former president of Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana), was a popular speaker in the Waterloo area.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Generations of hard work: the Gordon & Verna Weber Farm (circa, 1950). Formerly U.K. & Maggie Weber Farm, Old Chicopee Road."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Snyder family members at the Ontario Agricultural College, early twentieth century. Back row l to r: Allan Bowman Shantz, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Eli Schantz, Miss Thalman, Catherine (Shirk) Shantz, David Betzner, Unidentified, Samuel Burkholder, Unidentified, Eli Shantz, Sarah Burkholder, Fannie (Mrs. David) Betzner, Mrs. Hannah Bingeman Snyder. Front row l to r: Lucien Zimmerman, Leo Betzner, Anna (Shantz) Cameron, daughter of Allan & Catherine Shantz, Edward Shantz. Standing: Helen Betzner (later High)."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Professor Earle Snyder at work at the Ontario Agricultural College (University of Guelph)." Earle Snyder sitting at a bench with scientific equipment.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Berlin (First) Mennonite Church, 1913. Stirling would be built "up the hill" behind this church."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "'Members met each other much as they always have.' Stirling's Catherine Shantz visits with Ontario Conference members Fannie and David B. Betzner." Fannie (Hess) Betzner was from Pennsylvania, which accounts for her more traditional form of Mennonite dress.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Susannah Cressman with Fred, her daughter Laura's son. The occasion was a visit by Laura and Milton from their 'home in the far west.'"

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "This picture caused quite a stir. Ida Bergey, Eva Bergey, and Laura Shantz in California. (circa 1908)." A Mennonite bishop at home in Waterloo region wanted the women to apologize for wearing fashionable hats instead of Mennonite bonnets while on their trip to California to work as maids. In the photograph, two of the women are standing, while one sits on the back of an ostrich. Left to right: Laura Shantz, Ida Bergey, Eva Bergey.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Marshall O. Bingeman's Kitchener Dairies. Bingeman would offer part of this building for use by the House of Friendship and the NRRO/MCC [Nonresistant Relief Organization and Mennonite Central Committee]." The building was at 205 King Street East, Kitchener.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Two explorers on the eve of war. Stirling members Orpah Cressman and Nellie Bachert on the Queen Mary, 1938." The two women pose on the deck aboard ship with a lifesaver ring which reads "Queen Mary Liverpool."