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Brubacher House photograph collection

  • CA MAO XV-30.2.4
  • File
  • [ca. 1980]

This file contains photographs documenting the interior and exterior of Brubacher House, built in 1850, as an historic house museum from the 1980s onwards

Conrad Grebel University College (Waterloo, Ontario)

Carl Zehr slide collection

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.10.39
  • File
  • 1979

Colour slides taken in 1979 by Carl Zehr of four events: the Mennonite Relief Sale in New Hamburg, an auction at the Waterloo stockyards, a visit to the Wellesley Brand Apple Products processing plant, and a barn raising by Mennonite Disaster Service in Woodstock, Ontario.

Zehr, Carl

Emigration to Canada, 1924, 1925

This file consists of the following
1) Franz Friesen " Die Erste Immigranten-Gruppe von Sibirien, Slawgorod Kreis, nach Kanada", 1925, 4 pages; Report of Emigration from Rosental, 1923.
2) E. Janzen , " Unsere Auswanderung nach Canada", 1924. 16 pages
3) Bernhard B. Wiens, " Unsere Auswanderung nach Canada" 1924. 11 pages
4) Janz, B.B., Soldaten und Kassenpaaengiere, 1923, 5 Pages, B.B. Janz. "Die Soldaten, 1923,
5) H. Bartel, Auf! Nach Canada! 1923, 18 pages, via Minnedosa
6) P.F. Froese , "Usere Bauren in Moskau " 1928, 7 pages. (Taken from Der Bote June 19, 1962
7) Eine Mai-Ferien im Sovietalnde 1924. 9 pages. A group of 5,000 Mennonites was travel-ready to emigrate to Canada. B.B. Janz and B.H. Unruh assisted in making arrangements with CPR.
Terror im Molotschna-Gebiet, 5 pages; B.B. Janz hesitatingly agrees to classify that Mennonite ancestry is Dutch (not German).

Franz Friesen

Waterloo North Mennonite Church 25th anniversary

  • CA MAO III-55.2/2
  • File
  • 22-23 Oct 2011

In 2011, Waterloo North held a 25th anniversary service, a potluck and a dedication of a commemorative stone on the church grounds

Benner, Dick