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Cleo A. Mann's obituary and personal and professional correspondence.

Slides are divided into smaller subsets for slideshows.
1-18: Blackfoot/Siksika
2-118: Matheson Island
119-134: Hollow Water/Hole River
135-159: Bloodvein
160-174: Little Grand Rapids
175-194: Cross Lake
195-216: Selkirk/Winnipeg
217-247: Pauingassi
248-287: Board and Staff

These are Mennonite Pioneer Mission and Native Ministries photographs taken in the Indigenous community of Bloodvein, Manitoba, where the Mennonites operated a day school and a mission station for many years.

Board dockets and correspondence
Volume 5202

1. EMMC – BMS (Board of Mission and Service) Projects 1987-1988
2. Missionary Kids Education
3. US Consultant General 1982
4. BMS Correspondence 1987
5. BMS Correspondence 1988
6. BMS Correspondence 1989
7. BMS Correspondence 1990
8. To Whom It May Concern – Re: Workers
9. BMS 1985-1987
10. BMS Correspondence 1979-1985
11. Correspondence with BMS Chairmen 1975
12. BMS Medical Consultant 1979-1985
13. Mission Docket 1978
14. Mission Docket 1979
15. Mission Docket 1980
16. Mission Docket 1981
17. Mission Docket 1982
18. Mission Docket 1983
19. Mission Docket 1984
20. Mission Docket 1985
21. Mission Docket 1986
22. Mission Docket 1987
23. Mission Docket 1988
24. Mission Docket 1989
    Volume 5203 EMMC Mission Board – Dockets
25. Director’s Docket 1976-1978
26. Director’s Docket 1983-1984
27. Director’s Docket 1979
28. Director’s Docket 1979-1980
29. Director’s Docket 1980-1981
30. Director’s Docket 1981-1982
31. Director’s Docket 1982-1983
32. Director’s Docket 1984-1985
33. Director’s Docket 1985-1986
34. Director’s Docket 1987
35. Director’s Docket 1988
36. Director’s Docket 1989
37. Director’s Docket 1990
38. BMS Docket 1991
39. Mission Director 1985-1987

Minutes, correspondence and finances.

The Board of Christian Service records appear to be fairly complete. The contain Board minutes for the years 1954-1971, as well as correspondence files dating from 1954 and 1956-1971. The files contain a great deal of material regarding the social issues of the 1950s and 1960s and about the CMC position toward them. The Board of Christian Service was very involved in the area of peace education and this interest is reflected in the content of the files. There are also files on subjects such as divorce, race relations, draft resistance, Martin Luther King, medical ethics, and capital punishment, to name a few.

The Records of the Board of Christian Service files were generated by the following people: a) David P. Neufeld (Chairman of the Board 1956-1960) b) Frank H Epp (Executive Secretary 1956-1959, 1965) c) Henry A. Wiens (Secretary of the Board 1957-1959, Chairman of the Board 1960-1964) d) Peter G. Sawatzky (Executive Secretary 1964) e) Frank H. Epp (Chairman of the Board 1964, Executive Secretary 1965) f) Nick Dick (Executive Secretary 1966) g) Jake Letkemann (Executive Secretary 1967-1971).

These files are of considerable interest for studying church involvement in Canadian social issues, church state relations, religion and the larger society, and the evolution of the Christian social conscience.

The materials in this sub-series have been generated primarily by H.T. Klassen the secretary of the Board from 1953-1961, and executive secretary from 1962-1965. The majority of these records pertain to CMC Sunday Schools for the years 1953-1971. There are also Board minutes for the years 1955-1971 and publications correspondence for the same period. These records could be of use for people studying the history of Christian Education or the structures and activities of the CMC.

Much of this material consists of correspondence with individual mission stations. Approximatly 0.5 meters of the material in these files dates from before 1962. Among this material are minutes (1940-1971), reports, and correspondence (1943-1959). The oldest Board of Missions material is the financial ledger for the years 1914-1957. This ledger was begun by G.G. Epp and was maintained by P.P. Epp from 1927-1931. Both these men served as treasurer for the Missions Committee.

The David Toews files, is only indirectly related to the CMC Board of Missions. Toews served as field secretary responsible for the Canadian operations of the Home Missions Board of the General Conference Mennonite Church (1917-1946) and as member of the CMC Committee for Home Missions from 1943-1945, but the majority of these records are related to his General Conference involvements. The correspondence has all been filed alphabetically. One file of material in these records pertains to the CMC Archives but it appears to have been created by J.J. Thiessen, not by David Toews. The bulk of the material relates to the assistance which the General Conference provided for the creation of new churches in Canada in the years 1923-1946.

The H.J. Gerbrandt files reflect his involvement as field secretary (1959-1960) and secretary (1961-1965) of the Mission Board, as well as his service with Mennonite Pioneer Mission. Most of the material consists of correspondence, minutes, and reports. The files employ an alphabetical filing system.

The George Groening records contain a total of 1.36 meters of correspondence, minutes, agendas, and reports (both general and local) from the years 1948-1966. The H.H. Penner files cover approximately the same period as the Groening files and the types of material are quite similar as well. There is no obvious filing order in the collection.
The Mennonite Pioneer Mission (MPM) was operated by the conference of Mennonites in Canada since 1960. Some pre-1960 records in these files seem to have been transferred to the Conference in 1960. The J.N. Braun treasurer files (1942-1961) fall into this category. The early financial records of Mennonite Pioneer Mission are not entirely complete. Some of the pre-1949 ledgers were retained by the Bergthaler Mennonite Church of Manitoba, founders of the Mennonite Pioneer Mission. The files also contain correspondence for the years 1931-1948. Finally there are also minutes of the MPM Board for the years 1944-1959. The post-1960 period the MPM files were generated by the CMC Board of Missions' executive secretaries. They were responsible for overseeing all MPM operations. There is considerable correspondence with people from the various mission stations.

This record sub-series has intriguing research possibilities. The materials are useful for studying the history of several northern Manitoba native communities or the history of missions in Canada, and for doing cross-cultural studies. There are also possibilities for demographic studies, especially with regard to migration of Mennonites in Canada. The Board of Missions files could also be of considerable interest to the local historians who is trying to reconstruct the church development in their community.

Brought to MLA, April 23, 1996, by John Duerksen of AMBS. Files probably belonged to S. F. Pannabecker. 1953-1956 files are numbered, may be duplicates.