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This fonds consists of a copy of an eight page family registry compiled by Dietrich Voth, in which he documents birth, death and marriage dates. Include is are the dates for his parents and wife's parents, his children, and a page for each of his Voth siblings and a page for one of his daughters and her family. Besides the date and hour of day for the children's births, he also includes the name of the midwife and how much he paid their services, and occasionally how many hours of labour occured during the birth.

This fonds primarily consists of financial records of the Pauingassi Trading Post such as accounts payable ledgers, inventory material, weekly cash and sales control sheets, sales summaries, deposit books and payroll notebooks. Also included are employment records of past employees of the Trading Post.

This fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, site plans, and publicity about the project. These materials show interest among North American Mennonites and their familial roots in Ukraine.

These records can be divided into three eras -- the first migration wave (1922-1930), Pre World War II and War years (1930-1946), and finally, the 2nd migration movement (1947-1964). The records during the first period focus on the Mennonites who left Russia and settled in various communities in Canada through the assistance of the Board. The records of the second period focus more on the need to send relief aid to Russia during a period when immigration to Canada was no longer possible. The records of this period also deal with the questions of war, military service, conscientious objection to war and alternative service. The records of the third period -- a period when the leadership of the Board is under chairman J.J. Thiessen -- focus on help to refugees out of war torn Europe, including re-settlement in South America.

This fonds consists primarily of correspondence, official negotiations, and memos of the Studienkommission (1920-1921), the study commission sent to North America by Mennonites in Russia to investigate immigration possibilities; and of the Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization (1922-1926), founded to facilitate the immigration. There is extensive correspondence between Friesen and David Toews, Benjamin H. Unruh, Benjamin B. Janz, Peter H. Unruh, and other Mennonite leaders.

Several files deal with the case of "the 62", sixty two young male Mennonite refugees who left Russia for the United States via Constantinople in the early 1920s.

Some genealogical material for Russian Mennonite emigrants for the 1920s can be found here. The "notebooks" folder includes Friesen's passport and diaries.

This fonds consists of a transcription of Rempel's war diary, autobiography, research on the community of Edenburg, published and unpublished Low German stories and poems including a partial translation of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. The material captures Low German stories, prose, and proverbs and provides context for Rempel's life experience.

This fonds contains sermons, poetry, devotional materials, religious tracts, correspondence, photographs, and National Live Stock records for horses, swine and sheep.

This slide show consists of 80 color, sepia tone,and black and white slides. The slides depict life in Cambodia -- its people, culture and the events of the decade of the 1970s and early 1980s, the after effects of the Vietnam war which spilled over into Cambodia (1970-1975), the rule of terror under Pol Pot that followed (1975-1979), the plight of over 800,000 refugees by 1980, and the re-building efforts that followed. There are scenes of farming, commerce, rural and city landscapes, poverty, war, cruelty, destruction, military actions, prisoners and refugees. The presentation ends with slides showing Mennonite Central Committee's involvement in the country -- through sending material aid (laundry soap for hospitals, canned beef distributed through the Red Cross, and school kits for children). Included with these slides is a script and an audio cassette (see cassette #2315).

This fonds consists of
-1) diaries (Volumes 4817a13; 4817b:2-8; 4818:1-5)
-2) correspondence (Volume 4817a:1-12,14-15)
-3) poetry collection (Volume 4817a:16-17)
-4) A Pilgrim People research files (Volume 4818:6-12)
-5) several artifacts (Artifact # 3, #4.)
The fonds includes the diary of Johannes D. Dyck (1826-1898) kept from 1871-1898, the diary of Renate Dyck (1885-1963) kept from 1909-1927, and the diary Johannes J. Dyck (1885-1948) kept from 1907-1908, 1922, 1937-1938.

The correspondence is primarily letters from the friends and family of Johannes and Renate Dyck from the United States, Russia, and Canada as well as correspondence with the Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization. The collection does include one letter written by Helene Janzen in 1851 to Johannes D. Dyck, the gold miner in California.

The poetry is a collection of newspaper clippings and hand copied poems which were used to include in correspondence to give encouragement to family members left in the USSR who were living under very difficult circumstances.

This fonds also includes the files created while preparing the family history books published in 1987 and 1994 entitled, A Pilgrim People and, A Pilgrim People Volume II.

This fonds consists of local church board meeting minutes, correspondence, brotherhood meeting minutes, bulletins, annual reports and minutes, Sunday school materials, financial records, a constitution and missions records. The records document the life of a small rural Manitoba Mennonite congregation affiliated with the Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference.