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This fonds consists predominantly of materials concerning settlement work through the Canada Colonization Association, the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization, and the Mennonite Settlement Board. The materials are mostly correspondence and reports. Additional materials include correspondence, minutes and reports concerning various Mennonite conferences, relief work through the Mennonite Central Committee and the Emergency Relief Board, and the German English Academy, as well as sermons and some personal correspondence. Materials are both typewritten and handwritten.

The David Agatha Fast fonds consists of records created, accumulated, and used records by David and Agatha Fast of Chortitz, East Reserve, Manitoba, between 1929 and 1996. The materials include immigration papers to come to Canada (1929), settlement documents, repayment of travel debt, farm account books (1931-1960), income tax papers (1943-1962), sermons, minister notebooks, notes from East Reserve Inter-Mennonite meetings and conferences, committee meeting minutes, Canadian passports, and wills. Also included in the record is a family bible that belonged to Johan Fast (b. 1860), and 2 copies of “We Must Adapt: The Schroeder-Fast letters 1930-1988" 1st and 2nd editions. Additionally, there are 4 optical disks of interviews with David and Agatha Fast as well as 3 handwritten dispensation charts (in map storage).

David attended Inter-Mennonite meetings and conferences in the East Reserve and collected programs, minutes, and invitations to interdenominational church conferences. Also among these documents are provincial government pamphlets on alcohol and correspondence with Manitoba Temperance Alliance. All of these records are in Volume 6478.5. United Ministers and Deacons minutes. – 1942-1966.

This fonds consists primarily of correspondence, official negotiations, and memos of the Studienkommission (1920-1921), the study commission sent to North America by Mennonites in Russia to investigate immigration possibilities; and of the Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization (1922-1926), founded to facilitate the immigration. There is extensive correspondence between Friesen and David Toews, Benjamin H. Unruh, Benjamin B. Janz, Peter H. Unruh, and other Mennonite leaders.

Several files deal with the case of "the 62", sixty two young male Mennonite refugees who left Russia for the United States via Constantinople in the early 1920s.

Some genealogical material for Russian Mennonite emigrants for the 1920s can be found here. The "notebooks" folder includes Friesen's passport and diaries.