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Anna Baerg fonds

  • CA MHC PP
  • Fonds
  • 1913-1959 , predominant 1916-1926

This fonds contains photocopied originals and typed transcripts of the diaries, poetry and other writings of Anna Baerg. Clara K. Dyck transcribed the diaries and some of the other writings, and also provided some interpretive commentary. The diaries, which include the years 1916-1926, and 1959, detail the every day life experiences of a young woman in a Mennonite community in Russia during the years of war, revolution, and civil war and a little bit of her subsequent life in Canada.

Baerg, Anna, 1897-1972

Anna Friesen fonds

  • CA MHC PP
  • Fonds
  • 1929-1953

Fonds consists of 25 diaries recorded by Anna dated from 1929 to 1953. The originals were scanned and then returned to the family. In this fonds are colour prints of the diaries. Personal records also include newspaper clippings, poems and some photos. The diaries, mostly in English with some German, are usually written in 7 by 9 inch scribblers. The first was written in a proper diary given as a gift to Anna by her son, Cornelius. Later entries were hastily recorded on whatever was available, with a few by her daughter, Evelyn. Anna writes about day-to-day activities which centered around their growing family, Abraham’s work and hobbies, their church activities, health issues and the influence of world events on their daily life.

Friesen, Anna (Sawatzky), 1884-1953

Anna Peters fonds

  • CA MHC PP
  • Fonds
  • 1933-1948 , predominant 1945-1948

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).

Peters, Anna, 1919-2015

Anna Reimer family fonds

  • CA MHC PP
  • Fonds
  • 1925-1978

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."

Teichroeb, Elisabeth (Reimer), 1890-1978

Anna Sawatzky family fonds

  • CA MHC PP
  • Fonds
  • 1905-1974 , predominant 1947-1965

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.

Sawatzky, Anna (Funk), 1892-1966

Anne Penner fonds

  • CA MHC PP
  • Fonds
  • 1945-1992

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.

Penner, Anne, 1916-1996

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)

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