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This fonds has mainly the correspondence (1945-1948) between Anna Peters in Germany, her sister Maria (Peters) Bergen in Canada and her nephew John Bergen, at first in Oldenburg, Germany, later back in Canada, and her niece, Margaret Bergen in Canada. Anna's first letter to her sister Maria Bergen after the war was sent along with a Canadian soldier stationed in Wiesmoor, who was returning to Canada. No correspondence was yet allowed between Germany and Canada at the time. Maria was able to send a letter to her son John Bergen, who was in the Dental Corps, as a member of the occupation forces stationed in Oldenburg, Germany, and through him contact could be made and letters received. For several months all letters from Anna Peters (Germany) to her sister Maria (Canada) were forwarded via John Bergen in Oldenburg, Germany.
There are also three letters which pre-date the 1945-1948 period -- one written by Anna's brother, Anton Peters in 1934, another by her father Abram Peters in 1933, and one by Anna herself as a 13 year-old, describing their dire circumstances having the last potatoes, etc. taken by the communists and begging for a dollar (1933).

This fonds consists of 3 volumes of letters translated into English depicting life in Russia and the Soviet Union 1925-1978. In 1925 Anna Reimer's daughter, Katherina Enns and her husband Wilhelm Enns immigrated to Canada along with Anna's son's family, Johann and Kaethe Reimer. Anna and her other children remained in Russia, hoping also to move later but could not do so. This fonds consists of the letters the family members in Canada received, documenting the situation in the Soviet Union. The letters were translated by Katherina and Wilhelm Enns' children Con Enns and Elizabeth Enns, her husband Edward Enns and daughter Ruth Enns. "Katherina Enns and Johann Reimer left behind in Russia their sisters Anna Epp, Mariechen Reimer, Margareta Enns, Susanna Reimer, Elisabeth Teichroeb, and a brother Dietrich Reimer and their mother Anna (Peters) Riemer."

The materials in this fonds consists of eight diaries covering 18 years written by Anna Sawatzky (born Anna Funk) and some Mennonite private and public school textbooks used by Abram Friesen and Abram Driedger. The diaries are factual in nature showing little of the author's emotions but showing the activities of the author, immediate and extended family, the weather, and events taking place at church on Sunday morning. Also included is some poetry collected by Anna Sawatzky and a 29 page "Funk Familie Register". The diaries are an example of the life of an ordinary Southern Manitoba Mennonite housewife's life. The educational materials are an example of the kinds of resources the Mennonites used in their public and private school systems during the first two decades of the 20th century in Manitoba.

This fonds contains three diaries the first from 1945 until 1987 which appears to have been recopied. The first diary gives memoirs and accounts of Penner’s time in India including personal stories, politics, weather, and major news events. The first diary also includes loose pages in the back from 1981 and 1993, other loose pages are included with no specified year. The second diary spans from 1988 until 1990, and the third from 1990-1992. These two diaries are from Penner’s retirement in Winnipeg, Manitoba and include memoirs, personal experiences, news, and medical topics such as AIDS. Penner’s bible has prayers and notes throughout, in the back there is a short timeline of her first trip to India.
In addition, This fonds contains a letter written by Penner to her adoptive relative Doreen Loewen in 1956 while she was in India, recounting her work in the hospital and teaching Sunday school. Finally, also included are Penner's business card and two pins; one of these pins is a nursing pin, and the other contains a photo of her late parents.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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