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This collection contains seven series:
-1) Correspondence and church matters
-2) Bergthaler Mennonite Church Records
-3) Newspaper clippings
-4) Conference
-5) Business financial records
-6) Published pamphlets
-7) J.N. Hoeppner correspondence.
The majority of the material is correspondence relating to D.W. Friesen's personal life, church work (both local and on a conference level) and business. A significant portion of the collection also includes the correspondence of Reverend J.N. Hoeppner.

Fonds arranged in the following series:
1) Constitution - 1973, 1980, 2007 - (1 file) Box 155
2) Minutes - 1947, 1962-2011 - (2 files) Box 155
3) Correspondence - 1949-2011 - (1 file) Box 155
4) Reports - 1964-2017, 2010-2011 - (1 file) Box 155
5) Financial Records & Burial Permits - 1947-2011 (50 files) Boxes 155 - 157
6) Lists - 1883-2010 - (8 files) Box 158
7) Vital Statistics - 1947-2008 - (1 file) - Box 158
8) Publications - 1963 includes Brochures, Personal Protection Guide - (1 file) - Box 158
9) Microforms - (1 file) - Box 158
10) Photographs - (1 file) - Box 158
11) Kelowna Memorial Park Cemetery - 2007 - (1 file) - Box 158
12) Vedder View Gardens Cemetery - 2007 - (1 file) - Box 158
13) Greendale Cemetery Tour - May 15 2005 - (1 file) - Box 158

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.

Fonds consists of the following series:
1) Derksen and Martens Family Genealogy & Song book- (1 file) Box 368

Fonds consists of Mennonite and Russian village maps. Some are hand-drawn. Household names are given on many maps. Historical data is included on some maps.

Heinrich and Margaretha (Klippenstein) Enns fonds consists of the following series:
1) Genealogies and Histories of the Klippenstein and Enns families - (1 file) Box 274
2) Vital Statistics - 1926, 1932-1976 includes passports, medical, death and naturalization certificates - (1 file) Box 274
3) Obituaries - 1976, 1999, 2004 - Enns family ; 1969, 1970, 1984 - Martens Family - (2 files) Box 274
4) Photographs - slides of Zeneta, Saskatchewan; - (1 file) Box 274
5) Maps - Mennonite Colonies in Ukraine and Russia - (1 file) Box 274
6) DVD - Henry H. Enns Interviews, 2007, (2 hrs 54 min) - (1 file) Box 274

This fonds consists of correspondence (1915-1942), letters of Nickolas Wiens and others (1887), an account book from the family estate in Russia covering 1889-1917 (most likely created by George N. Rempel's father), miscellaneous documents and information realted to the Taschtschenak and Brosdsky etstaes owned by Martens and Schroeder. This includes a plan lay-out of the Martens estate. Some of the correspondence has been transcribed into Latin letters. The transcriptions have the identification number corresponding to the copy of the original in the upper right hand side.

This fonds consists of the sermons of Peter Dyck, a minister in the Sommerfelder Mennonite Church of Manitoba. The sermons in the collection were used during the period of 1888 to 1928.

This fonds contains correspondence, receipts, and other documents related to Johann's farming and business operation, and to his intermittent service in the municipal government. It also contains family correspondence and diaries containing personal notes by Johann and by his wife, Margaretha. Most of the material consists of handwritten originals.

This fonds consists of reports, correspondence, and printed materials regarding the investigation of Mennonite settlement in South America, Quebec, United States and Mexico 1919-1921; the purchase of land in Mexico 1921-1922; difficulties experienced by Mennonites in Mexico 1923-1946; articles and correspondence of Schmiedehaus relating to the Mexican Mennonite colonies 1921-1970; periodicals, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings 1888-1970. Originals and photocopies of the originals are found in the fonds.

This fonds were includes a diary by Jacob Esau detailing the formation and challenges of the Alexanderkrone Zentralschule, and a hair wreath made to commemorate Esau's deceased family members. The materials are central to the understanding the early history of the Zentralschule. Portions of the diary were transcribed by Katharina Janzen and published in the newspaper Der Bote in October and November 1971. This together with the reports written by Esau in the periodical Friedensstimme were central to Ted Regehr's book For Everything a Season: A history of the Alexanderkrone Zentralschule. The hair wreath is a unique item that must be rare in Mennonite circles.

The series contains the following files:
1) "Welcome Back" A Song by Isaac Schroeder, 1889 (frail original) with transliteration, translation & musical score. - (2 files) Box 305
2) Two Poems by Isaac Schroeder, 1895 & 1896 (frail originals & photocopies) - (1 file) Box 305
3) Publications - Roots & Branches article, 2018 - (1 file) Box 305
4) Sheet Music "Mein Letztes Lied", by Aron G. Sawatzky, 1935 - (1 file) Box 305

This fonds consists of photographs of the Tokmak railroad, the Wall estates, and the extended Wall family. Maps showing the railroad including a Russian map of the Crimea and southern Ukraine and a memoir by George Wall recounting the family's experiences in Russia and early life in Canada. A Gesangbuch (hymnal( once owned by Peter Wall is also included.

This fonds uniquely highlights the life and times of a wealthy Mennonite family involved in the transportation and farming industries and how that changed with the Russian Revolution forcing the family to emigrate.