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- 1773-2000 ; predominant 1773-1850, 1942-1955 (Creation)
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Fonds
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3 cm of textual records
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Jacob Fehr emigrated to Canada in 1876 with his parents, Jacob Fehr (1837-1916) and Maria Wiens (1835-?) from Kronsthal, Chortitza and settled in the village of Reinland on the Manitoba Mennonite West Reserve. Jacob Sr. was the first mayor (Schulz) of Reinland. Jacob Fehr Jr. first married Susanne Peters (1862-1890) and then Mathilda Hennig (1868-1936). In total he had 18 children.
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Archival history
Some of this material has been passed down through the Fehr line to Helena Fehr of Winkler, Manitoba. Delbert Plett obtained copies of the material and republished some of the translations, which Peter D. Zacharias published in Reinland: Experience in Community. Plett then donated the material to the archives. Der Bote also used some of the material before donating it to the archives.
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Scope and content
This collection consists of photocopies of letters from Jacob Fehr Jr., a journal of Jacob Fehr Jr. recounting the immigration to Canada, a brief account of the immigration by Helena Fehr, and a register of letters that includes authors such as Aeltester Gerhard Dyck of Chrotitza, South Russia. I also includes a notebook of sermons. In addition to these primary documents there are copies of published translation and transcription of the journal of Jacob Fehr.
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German and English.
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Inventory file list (Vol. 4891)
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Accession no. 2000-114
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Described by Conrad Stoesz, August 23, 2000. Updated by Sharon Brown Dec. 2002.