Fonds ORG - Lichtenau Mennonite Church (Manitoba) fonds

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CA MHC ORG

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Lichtenau Mennonite Church (Manitoba) fonds

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  • 1932-1990 (Creation)

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16 cm of textual records

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Name of creator

(1927-1990)

Administrative history

The Lichtenau Mennonite Church was formally organized in 1927. In 1929 a meeting house was built at Ste. Elizabeth, Manitoba. A second meeting house was built in 1944 in Arnaud, Manitoba, which became known as the Arnaud Mennonite Church when the two congregations became independent congregations after 1944. They cooperated in some programming. The Lichtenau Mennonite Church dissolved in 1990.

Archival history

Textual records were deposited at the Mennonite Heritage Centre after 1990.

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Scope and content

This fonds consists of congregational bulletins (1976-1978), membership records (1938-1944, 1976-1980), congregational chronicle (1963-1990), Gemeinde and congregational meeting minutes and annual reports (1932-1980), and a general ledger (1931-1954). The records pertain to the founding, development, and dissolution of the Mennonite congregation at Ste. Elizabeth, Manitoba. They document the leaders and participants in this congregation.

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Some German

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By Bert Friesen 7 December 2001.

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