The view of the back of the house, where the family of Jakob and Maria Fehderau would often sit on the green benches. The well for drinking water is to the right of the photo. On the verandah there seems to be a young boy holding a guitar.
The village elementary school (Dorfschule) in Gnadenheim. The teacher lived in the school building, shown here on the right, having two windows. The rest of the building was one big classroom where children in grades one to four were taught.
The wedding of Elisabeth Stobbe and Dietrich Baerg in the 1930s at Schönau, Molotschna Colony. Dietrich’s sister Lena (Helena) Baerg stands to the left of the bride. On the far right is her sister, Agnes Baerg. The two young women in the middle are not identified. Dietrich and Lena were Alida’s mother’s maternal cousins. The parents of Dietrich and Lena were Heinrich Baerg and Aganetha (Schellenberg) Baerg, formerly of Tiegenhagen.
The wedding of Gerhard Enns’ sister (paternal aunt to Olga Enns) to Abram Baerg. The bride wears a black dress and a white veil. Earlier it was the custom to wear black for weddings. The label of the photo is “Cabinet Portrait” indicating the photographer could have been Mennonite or German.
The words written on the back of photo #7: “Gruss aus” meaning “Greetings from” and the place name written in Russian. Gostovskaya is the way it might be written in English. Jakob Bergen sent this photo to his family in Blumenort while on a business trip for the store worked he worked in Blumenort.
Semi-formal.The worship leaders of Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church. Back row l-r: R. Rempel and J. Winfield Fretz; front row: D. Smucker and J. Reusser. Found in the Ontario Inter-Mennonite Conference Yearbook, 1974, p. 58.
The young Unruh family in Tiegenhagen, Molotschna Colony, Ukraine. Heinrich and Maria Unruh, grandparents of Alida, are pictured with (left to right) Helene aged 3, baby Heinrich 6 months, and two year old Anna (mother of Alida). This photo was taken when grandfather had come home on leave from the medical corps during WW I.
Family history materials, correspondence, school records (his), handwritten music score "Eventide" by Sara Glick, book Elsie Helen Friesen, From the Roots of Jacob Peters (1978) with annotations and inclusions, and Elsie Helen Epp, Episodes of the Prairie Pioneers: Five Branches from the Family Tree of Heinrich Epp (1991) with annotations and inclusions
A majority of files of this collection relate to Friesen's involvements within the Mennonite community. The files includes minutes, reports and correspondence related to the following organizations: Radio CFAM, the Canadian Mennonite, the Canadian Mennonite Association, the Canadian Mennonite Publishing Company, the Conference of Mennonites in Canada, the Conference of Mennonites in Manitoba, the Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba, Mennonite Central Committee Canada, Canadian Mennonite Relief Committee, the Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society. This collection also includes Friesen's work on unpublished genealogies and family trees.