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The fonds consists of the following:
1) Diaries: Nine diaries dated 1953, 1955-1961 and one undated diary, all written in German Gothic script - (1 file) Box 379
2) Notebook: One notebook written in German & English and containing several sheets of music, no date - (1 file) Box 379

Fonds is arranged in the following series:
1) Seven interviews which became research material created for the Mennonite Historical Society BC practicum in 2006 - (1 file) - Box 191
The interviews were conducted with people from the Fraser Valley in 2006 and included questions asking about the reasons for their moving to the Fraser Valley, daily and community life, role of the church, the second world war, health care, youth, role of women, among other questions.

This fonds contains bulletins (1986-2020), calendar of activities (1989-1996), directory (1994, 2006, 2007, 2016-2021), and minutes of the congregation's education committee meetings, finance committee meetings, missions committee meetings, and worship committee meetings (1986-2006, 2016-2020) , and the congregational worship calendars and themes (1986-2006). The records pertain to the beginning and development of the Emmanuel Mennonite Church in Winkler, Manitoba and they document the leaders and participants of this congregation.

Fonds is arranged in the following series:
1) Manuscript - The Prophet Isaiah, A Devotional Exposition, 1938 - (1 file) Box 267
2) Publications - "Lebensgeschichte (Biography), 1878-1961 (1 file) Box 267
3) Cirriculum - three German volumes: Introduction to the New Testament, Worship in Ancient Israel, Sermon the the Mount (1932) - (1 file) Box 267
4) Clippings of Abraham H Unruh - 1961-1988 - (1 file) Box 267
5) Photographs - (1 file) Box 267

This fonds contains letters, photos, envelopes, postage stamps, and a school exam booklet from 1906 – 1907.
These letters are a valuable set of primary source documents for several reasons. They document a crucial chapter in the family history of Johann and Maria Neufeld over the time period from 1926 to 1979. In addition to that, these letters are a showcase for the stories that many other Mennonite families experienced through the 1920s migrations to Paraguay and Mexico. Most importantly, these letters give an outstandingly valuable insight into the daily life of the 1920s settlers in the Paraguayan Chaco and the moral and financial support these settlers got from their relatives that stayed in Canada.

This fonds consists of letters written to Cornelius L. Plett by friends and family. They provide a valuable insight into the daily life in Mennonite village settlements in Canada, U.S., and Mexico in the first two decades of the twentieth century, as they discuss village and church dynamics, as well as personal issues and challenges of the writers. Most of these letters are written in the German Ghotic Script.

This fonds contains an 1884 exercise booklet of Jacob B. Peters from the Reichenbach school on the Manitoba East Reserve, a ledger with mathematical problems from [191-]. The exercise booklet gives an insight into writings exercises as practised in the Mennonite schools in Manitoba, whereas the mathematical problem book gives examples of mathematical problems as taught in Mennonite private schools.

This collection is in the process of being organized and cataloged.

Box 1: photocopies of the Unruh material at the Hoover Institution, much of it notes for what became his Fügung und Führung book

Box 2: more Hoover photocopies; folder of typed obituaries and tributes, probably collected by Cornelius Krahn; other miscellaneous photocopies

Consists of printed indexes to B. H. Unruh's Die niederländisch-niederdeutschen Hintergründe der mennonitischen Ostwanderungen im 16., 18. und 19. Jahrhundert (1959), derived from a database compiled by Peters.

Fonds consists of the following series:
1) Constitution - (1 file) Box 112
2) Minutes - 1957, ND - (1 file) Box 112
3) Reports - 1991 - (1 file) Box 112
4) Publications -1980-1994 includes Bulletins, Programs and Directory (1982) - (1 file) Box 112
5) Clippings (Rundschau) - 1957-1987 - (1 file) Box 112
6) Photographs