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Argentina passenger list fonds

  • CA MHSBC 313
  • Fonds
  • 1932

Fonds consists of the following series:
1) Argentina Passenger List of April 22, l932

Neufeld, Herman and Katarina

Arnaud Mennonite Church fonds

  • CA MHC ORG
  • Fonds
  • 1936-2016

This fonds contains financial records realted to the travel debt (Reiseschult) owed to the Canadain Mennonite Board of Colonization, church levies and church expenses (1936-1956) bulletins (1977-2000), minutes and reports (1943-1992) , minutes of congregational mission societies (1962-1983), related documents of these mission societies (1962-1983), congregational annual reports (1982, 1993, 1995), and various congregational registers (1944-1999), and a 50th anniversary book of the congregation. The records pertain to the founding and development of the Mennonite congregation in Arnaud, Manitoba and they documents the leaders and participants in this congregation.

Arnaud Mennonite Church (Arnaud, Manitoba)

Arnold Mennonite Brethren Church fonds

  • CA MHSBC 32
  • Fonds
  • [1940-1990]

Fonds consists of the following series:
1) Constitution, 1984 - (1 file) - Box 109
2) History, 1942-1968, 1988 - (1 file) - Box 109
3) Minutes, 1942-1968 - (7 files) - Box 109
4) Correspondence - Youth Missions, 1956-1964 - (1 file) - Box 109
5) Reports - 1944, 1946-1947, 1949, 1956-1961, 1963, 1968 - (2 files) - Box 109
6) Annual Business Meetings, 1996-2006 - (1 file) - Box 109
7) Vital Statistics, including baptism & membership - 1941-1988, 2006 - (4 files) - Box 109
8) Lists - Youth members, 1956-1957 - (1 file) - Box 109
9) Youth, 1955-1965 - (3 files) - Box 109
10) Lectures & Sermons - (1 file) - Box 109
11) Sunday School Register & Record, 1956-1981, 1985-1987, 1990-1992, 1994-1995, Sunday School history 1942-1968, including MCC child sponsorship in 1965 - (7 files) - Box 419
12) Christian Education - Vacation Bible School records - (1 file) - Box 419
13) Publications - Bulletins & Pictoral Directory - (3 files) - Box 419
14) Photographs 1940's 1990 - (1 file) - Box 419
15) Tape Cassettes - 2006 - (1 file) - Box 419
16) Epemera - (1 file) - Box 419

Arnold Community Church (Abbotsford, British Columbia)

Aron Rempel fonds

  • CA MHSBC 199
  • Fonds
  • 1942-1970

The fonds consists of the following series:
1) Constitution - British Columbia Conference of the Mennonite Brethren, N.D. - (1 file) Box 434
2) Minutes: Board Meeting, 1948, "Aufzeichnungen der Prediger-Diakonen Konferenz" (Record of the Paster-Deacon Conference), 1950, Canadian Board of Colonization, 1957. - (1 file) Box 434
3) Reports - Mission reports from India (1948), Africa, Japan, Mexico & South America (ca. 1955). - (1 file) Box 434
4) Publications - "LehrerZeitung", 1949 - (1 file) Box 434
5) Photographs

Rempel, Aron Dietrich, 1903-1981

Arthur W. Slagel fonds (photograph collection)

  • CA MHC 665
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1924

This fonds contains 276 photographs taken and received by Arthur W. Slagel during his 3-year assignment with Mennonite Central Committee from 1920-1923. The collection has photos of the relief work in Russia showing various aspects of the work including workers, headquarters, storage, distribution, seeded and distributed crops, transportation, buildings and homes. The photos were taken in locations such as Chortitza, Alexandrosk, Schoenwiese, Rosenthal, Halbstadt, Gnadenfeld, Ohrloff, Nicopol, and Sagradowka. There are images of the 1923 emigration group from Schoenwiese leaving for Canada. There are general scenic photos of the Dnieper rapids, the Kremlin and other sites in Moscow. Some photographs were likely given to Slagel from Mennonite workers in Russia, such as the Solomon Ediger family, the Peter Nikkel family, the Johann Janzen family, the Ohrloff teachers and others. And, finally there are photos of travels taken in England, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland, Egypt, Palestine and Syria.

Slagel, Arthur W., 1891-1943

Artur Laser fonds

  • CA MHC PP
  • Fonds
  • 1992-2007 , predominant 1992

This fonds consists of the memoirs of Artur Laser, a German Baptist Christian, who moved into a Mennonite community as a child, lived and went to school in Tiegerweide and Rueckenau, Molotschna, was commandeered to work in a Russian concentration camp in 1940, and who continued to meet and live among German-speaking Baptists and Mennonites, as religious life began to re-organize after Stalin's death. The memoirs provide political background against which many experiences are described from 1933 up until he immigrated to Canada in 1973. The memoirs includes notes on each change of Soviet leadership from Stalin through to Gorbechev, and how it affected religious and social life in the Soviet Union.

Laser, Artur, 1925-2022

Avon Mennonite Church fonds

  • CA MHC ORG
  • Fonds
  • 1997-2010

The fonds contains weekly bulletins which document the activities of the congregation and its participants.

Avon Mennonite Church (Stratford, Ontario)

Bakerview Mennonite Brethren Church fonds

  • CA MHSBC 33
  • Fonds
  • 1965-2011

Fonds is arranged in the following series:
1) Constitution - [1965] - (1 file) Box 110
2) Financial Records - 1992-1993 - (1 file) Box 110
3) Reports - 1992-1993, 2006 - (1 file) Box 110
4) Lists - 1993 - (1 file) Box 110
5) Publications - 1966-2009 - (6 files) Box 110
6) History - 1965 - (1 file) Box 110
7) Photographs

Bakerview Mennonite Brethren Church (Abbotsford, British Columbia)

BC Conference of MB Churches fonds

  • CA MHSBC 30
  • Fonds
  • 1899-2012

Fonds consists of the following series:
1) Constitution - 1936-2005 - (9 files) Box 84
2) Minutes - 1931-1995 - (1 file) Boxes 84 - 87
3) Correspondence - 1940-1994 - (68 files) Box 88 - 90
4) Financial - 1945-1988 - (18 files) Box 91
5) Legal Documents - 1936-1984 - (6 files) Box 92
6) Reports - 1980-1995 - (96 files) Boxes 92-94
7) Lists - 1970-1993 - (6 files) Box 95
8) Statistics - 1972-1992 - (2 files) Box 95
9) Personnel Records 1972-1981 - (12 files) Box 95; (129 files) Box 106
10) Certificates of Ordination and Membership 1944, 1968 - (2 files) Box 96
11) Lectures and Sermons - 1971-1991 - (16 files) Box 96
12) Publications - 1902-1994 - (7 files) Box 96
13) Ephemera - 1940-1986 - (2 files) Box 96
14) Clippings - 1952-1966 - (1 file) Box 96, 424
15) Chart and Drawings - 1939-1959, 1965-66 - (1 file) Box 96
16) Mennonite Brethren Churches (alphabetical) - (143 files) Boxes 97 -103
17) Board of Church Extension - 1968-1999 - (22 files) Box 104
18) Board of Christian Education - 1942-1992 - (21 files) Box 105
19) BC Youth Organization - 1944-1972 - (18 files) Box 105
20) MB Missions of BC - 1943-1995 - (32 files) Box 106
21) Photographs - (including West Coast Children's Mission)
22) Sunday School Materials - 1899, 1940-1987 - Box 107

British Columbia Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches

Benjamin Ewert fonds

  • CA MHC PP
  • Fonds
  • 1892-1957, predominantly 1916-1957

This fonds consists of six categories of material. 1) World War One and World War Two Materials 2) Conference of Mennonites in Canada (CMC) Material 3) Mennonite History 4) Church Related Material 5) Mennonitische Schulkommission 6) Foreign Bible Society Records. The physical arrangement does not allow following these categories sequentially.

The World War materials record Ewert's efforts to ensure the government would grant military exemption. The materials include petitions, records of financial gifts, articles and correspondence with such leaders as Abraham Doerksen, David Toews, Jacob Hoeppner and B.B. Janz. Ewert also kept a list of Mennonite men from Conference churches who were in the military during the wars. There is also a some correspondence of Julius Toews with Prime Minster Neville Camberlain of England.

The CMC materials newspaper clippings, notes, articles by Ewert and others, and correspondence. There are files on topics such as marriage licensing; articles on the German hymnal, conference statistics, program bulletins for teachers and ministers, the Canadian Mennonite, Canadian Mennonite Bible College (CMBC) conferences, new Mennonite immigrants to Canada and notes on annual conference session notes.

The Mennonite History materials include numerous newspaper clippings from Die Steinbach Post, Die Mennonitische Rundschau, The Winnipeg Free Press, Carillon News, and Der Nordwester regarding Mennonites in Canada, Paraguay, Mexico, and Brazil. There are also files dealing with the publication of Wohin? Woher? Mennoniten, and articles written by Ewert and others dealing with Mennonite history.

The church related material consists of things that Ewert collected through his work in specific congregations, namely the congregations at Edenburg and Bethel Mennonite Church in Winnipeg. Items such as a minister's manual, German New Testament, sermons, and newspaper clippings can be found in this section.

The Mennonitische Schulkommission materials consist of the records of an organizaiton that met with politian Valentine Winkler about the governments interference in the operation of Mennonite schools. There is also a 1892 attendance record for the Edenburg school where Ewert taught.

The Foreign Bible Society records include materials which Ewert collected while involved with this organization from 1952 to 1955.

Ewert, Benjamin, 1870-1958

Bergfeld Evangelical Mennonite Mission Church fonds

  • CA MHC EMMC
  • Fonds
  • 1940-1999

This fonds consists of local church board meeting minutes, correspondence, brotherhood meeting minutes, bulletins, annual reports and minutes, Sunday school materials, financial records, a constitution and missions records. The records document the life of a small rural Manitoba Mennonite congregation affiliated with the Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference.

Bergfeld Evangelical Mennonite Mission Church

Bergthal Mennonite Church (Didsbury) fonds

  • CA MHC ORG
  • Fonds
  • 1962-2018

This fonds contains bulletins (1968-2004), congregational meeting minutes which include at times financial statements (1962-1990), financial statements (1969-1980), annual reports (1975-1993), directories (1977-1994), programme ([1971]), congregational history (1978), newsletters ([198-?]-1997), and constitution and rules ([196-?]-1981). The records pertain to the founding and development of the Mennonite congregation Didsbury, Alberta. They document some of the leaders and participants in the congregation.

Bergthal Mennonite Church (Didsbury, Alberta)

Bergthaler Mennonite Church of Manitoba fonds

  • CA MHC ORG
  • Fonds
  • 1882-1985

This fonds consists of six series:
-1) Church membership ledgers recording vital statistics
-2) Minutes of the brotherhood, ministerial, and finance committee meetings
-3) Financial records, legal documents, and correspondence
-4) Fire insurance records
-5) Bergthaler Waisenamt (aid organization) records
-6) Disbanding of the Organization.

Bergthaler Mennonite Church of Manitoba

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