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Toews, Franz Peter, 1879-1978
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A rabbit hunt

This photo shows (l-r): Johann Heidebrecht (Nikolaidorf), assistant forester Carl Prokopenko (?), Jacob Boschmann (Petershagen), Johann Janzen lying down, Franz Toews on his knees (Alexanderkrone), Gerhard Warkentin (Ebenfeld) and Starzky Dietrich Friesen. On a rabbit hunt they would also shoot ducks and other birds, besides rabbits.

Franz Peter Toews fonds

  • CA MHSBC 110
  • Fonds
  • 1931-2008

Fonds is arranged in the following series:
1) Correspondence - 1945-1947, 1965-1966 - (1 file) Box 230
2) Thesis - Abraham Friesen - 1960 - (1 file) Box 230
3) Biography of B.B. Janz - (1 file) Box 230
4) Bethesda Mennonite Health Society (Minutes) - 1935-1950 - (1 file) Box 230
5) Sermons (Heinrich Janzen) - 1963-1964 - (1 file) Box 230
6) Sharon Mennonite Collegiate Institute - 1945-1967 - (1 file) Box 230
7) Mennonite Provincial Committee for BC - Reports - 1935-1938 - (1 file) Box 230
8) Historic Peace Churches - Laws - 1941 - (1 file) Box 230
9) Mennonite Church BC Minutes - 1931-1936 - (1 file) Box 230
10) Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization - 1934-1944 - (1 file) Box 230
11) Reiseschuld - Financial Reports - 1941-1955 - (1 file) Box 230
12) BC Hilfswerk Minutes - 1946-1949 - (1 file) Box 230
13) MCC Reports - 1940, 1966-1969 - (1 file) Box 230
14) North Abbotsford - 1937-1960 - (1 file) Box 230
15) Mennonite Educational Institute - 1980 - (1 file) Box 230
16) Yarrow MB Church Report - 1945-1946, 1964-1968 - (1 file) Box 230
17) Yarrow Grower's Co-op - Financial Records - 1943-1944 - (1 file) Box 230
18) German Schools - Reports - 1938 - (1 file) Box 230
19) Yarrow Map - 2008, 1942, original and photocopy - (1 file) - 1942 map is stored in the Map Cabinet
20) ZMIK Minutes - 1931 - (1 file) Box 230
21) Clippings - 1946-1969, 1999 - (1 file) Box 230

Toews, Franz Peter, 1879-1978

Large group of forestry service men at the Anodol Camp in Russia

This photo is a formal group picture of 33 uniformed men arranged in 4 straight rows, set up in front of a building. The fifth person in the second row is a corporal (seen by the white stripes on his collar). Row 3: Franz Toews is the fourth person; Jacob Hoemsen is the 6th person (counting l-r). Jacob Hoemsen served at this camp as well as in the Russo-Japanese war and the First World War. He wrote and published his experience in Der Bote. He lived in Alexander, Manitoba.

Russian Mennonite World War I experiences - collection

This series contains photocopied photos and personal stories during World War I of the following files:

File 1 includes:
Bergmann, A. P. [18--] Forestry, Medic (includes group photo of five medics and an English translation of his story)
Buhr, John D., 1896-1975, Medic (includes a head shor of J. D. Buhr. His story is in three forms, an origianl handwritten diary, a typed copy and an English translation).
File 2 includes:
DeFehr, A.A., 1879-1966, Forestry (includes an English translation of his story).
Dick, Abram J., 1890-1970, Forestry, Medic (includes an English translation of his story).
Dueck, G.G., 1981-1985, Forestry (includes an English translation of his story).
Dyck, Franz A., 1895-1970, Medic (includes an English translation of his story).
Photo of Forster Chliwimsky-Asow, 1884-1909
Files 3 includes:
Enns, Gerhard J., 1885-1986, Forestry (includes an English translation of his story).
Enns, W.H., 1895-1974, Medic (includes an English translation of his story).
Epp, A.D. [18--], Medic
Epp, David C., 1890-1976 - Medic (includes an English translation of his story).
File 4 includes:
Fast, Gerhard J., 1888-1974 - Forestry, (photo of the group of medics from Train #167 in Moscow, 1914 and an English translation of his story).
Friesen, Gerhard (18--), Medic
Friesen, Jacob J., 1884-1969, Forestry (photo of a group of forestry workers in Alt-Berdjansk, 1914)
Friesen, Peter [18--], Forestry
Froese, Bernhard Peter, 1893-1950, Forestry
Froese, F.P., 1883-1983, Forestry (photos of " "Aufname" der "Nowobranzy" ( Rekruten) " & a group of forestry workers in Asow, 1915. Also included is an English translation of his story).
Files 5 includes:
Goossen, Heinrich H. [18--], Forestry
Guenther, David, 1887-19--, Forestry
Guenther, Johann, [18--], Medic (Head shot of Johann Guenther, Medic on the Portugal")
Guenther, Waldemar, [18--], Medic
File 6 includes:
Harder, Jacob Johann, 1890-1976, Forestry
Hoemsen, Jakob [188-], Forestry (2 photos: head shot of Jakob Hoemsen, 1904 & Lazarett in Urulga, 1904-1905)
Huebner, Jakob Peter, 1892-1973, Forestry (photo: group of forestry workers in Iswara, 90 werst from St. Petersburg) )
File 7 includes:
Isaak, Jacob J., 1885-1967, Forestry (Full length photo of two forestry guards in uniform, 1915)
Janzen, J.H. (Aeltester) [18--] Forestry
Janzen, J.J., [18--] (photo of forestry workers and their baracks in Gursuf, Crimea)
File 8 includes:
Klassen, Gerhard J., Forestry [18--]
Klassen, Johann D., [18--] Medic
Klassen, Julius H., 1895-1967, Forestry (photo: Funeral of Klaas Penner, Siberia, at the Wladimirowschen Forstei)
Kroeker, Heinrich, [18--] "Eine Nacht in tuerkischer Gefangenschaft"
Langemann, Peter, 1892-?, Forestry
Loewen, J. J., 1898-1982, Forestry, (photo of lunch preparations at Alt-Berdajansk, 1917)
File 9 includes:
Matthies, C.C., Medic
Matthies, John J. [18--] Forestry (3 photos: head shot of John J. Matthies; Asow Musikkapelle 1908-1909 (brass band); three men at the alleged burial place of Noah in the Ararat mountains)
Neustaedter, Franz Peter 1892-1938, Forestry (photo of hog butchering at the Forestry service in Alt-Berdjansk)
File 10 includes:
Penner, Abram Heinrich, 1891-1965, Medic (includes an English translation of his story).
Penner, Johan H. [18--] Forestry (includes an English translation of his story).
Peters, Heinrich Abram 1887-1972, Medic (includes an English translation of his story).
File 11 includes:
Reimer, Jakob H., 1893-1976, Medic (photo of the workforce on the ALV medical train #192, Moscow)
Rempel, Aron A. 1893-1994, Medic
Rempel, J.J. [18--], Medic (photo of J.J. Rempel and the Hospital ship "Equator"
Redekopp, Nicolai P., 1885-1981, Forestry (2 photos of barracks under construction)
File 12 includes:
Schmidt, Gerhard G. 1894-1977, Forestry (photo: four men in the command kitchen, Crimea)
Schroeder, Wilhelm W. 1894-1972, Various
Siebert, Nicolai, 1887-1972, Research (photo: home of the "Phylloxerakommandos" in Crimea, 1911)
Siemens, Nicolai, 1896-1988, Medic
Sudermann, Alexander, 1898-1975, Mechanic (2 photos: head shot of Alexander Suderman, 1961 & vehicles ready for evacuation to the Front)
Sukkau, Jakob A.[18--], Forestry, Medic (photo of five men in the kitchen of Medical train #157, 1916-1917)
File 13 includes:
Thiessen, Franz P., 1888-1975, Forestry, Medic (5 photos: 1. Forestry barracks at Sherebkowo, 2. Eight men in the nursery of the Ananjewer Forstei, 3. Head shot of Franz P. Thiessen, 4. Barracks of the ALV, Moscow 5. Eight men on a gravel road in Crimea.)
Toews, Franz P., 1879-1978, Forestry, Medic (photo of medics of Adelsverbandes train #167 in Moscow, 1914; )
Annoymous ("F.P.T."), (2 photos: Reverened Oekonom and his wife; Asow Forestry workers David Becker, Isaak Klassen, A. P. Bergman & P. Thiessen, 1908)
File 14 includes:
Warkentin, P.A. [18--], Forestry (photo of Olty on the Turkish front, 1916)
Wiebe, Peter J. [18--], Forestry (2 photos: barracks at Gross-Anadol, 1915 -1917, five men: Jakob Klassen, J. Neufeld, ? Klassen, Gerhard Enns & Julius Klassen in ALV Moscow)
Wiens, Henirch H., 1885-1979, Forestry (photo of barracks at Asow)
Wiens, Heinrich Jakob, [18--], Medic (photo: two medics with a stretcher at the Caucasus front)
Wiens, Jakob J., 1883-1966, Forestry
Willms, Abraham J., 1893-1976, Medic (2 photos: road construction in the Crimea at "Tschornaja Terschka", Ten medics of Lazaretts #6, ALV Ekaterinoslav: P.A. Fast, A.J. Klassen, B.J.Janzen, B.B. Braun, J.A. Friesen, D.J. Woelk, P. Enns, Is. Friesen, A.J.Willms, F.D. Martens.)