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- 1925-1975 (Creation)
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8 cm of textual records
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The congregation began services in 1925, and formally organized in 1927. Klaas Janzen, Johann Thiessen and J. Riesen are considered the founding leaders of the group. The congregation originated through immigration from the Soviet Union and the United States. It was affliated with the Conference of Mennonites in Canada from 1934-1965. The congregation dissolved in 1965 as the local population moved away.
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The old Gemeinde-bucb (Church record book) was found in a farm house, the former residence of one of the sons of Rev. Johann
J. Friesen. In 1984 it was in a vault with the old records of the Drake congregation (see Mennonite Historian, March 1984, p. 2). It was at the Heritage Centre in 1987.
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The fonds contains correspondence (1933-1975), congregational statistics (1940-1941), marriage registrations and forms (19-), marriage act (1933), and membership and family register (1925-1949). The records pertain to the founding and development of the Mennonite congregation at Jansen, Saskatchewan and they document some of the participants in the congregation.
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Some German
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By Bert Friesen 19 February 2002.