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- 1968-2008 (Creation)
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Fonds
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1.2 m of textual records
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Administrative history
The Mennonite Historical Society of Canada (MHSC) was established in 1966 to sponsor the writing of a history of the Mennonites in Canada. MHSC is composed of board members from provincially-based Mennonite historical societies, Mennonite denominational conferences, and Mennonite Central Committee Canada. Other Mennonite institutions such as the Chair of Mennonite Studies, University of Winnipeg, have also actively participated.
MHSC published a 3-volume history of Mennonites in Canada between 1974 and 1996, began the Canadian Mennonite Encyclopedia On-line in 1996 (later known as Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online), and organized a multi-year project to address gaps in the historical research under "Divergent Voices of Canadian Mennonites starting in 1999.
Presidents of the MHSC were J. Winfield Fretz (1968-1975), Ted D. Regehr (1975-1981), Ted E. Friesen (1981-1996), Royden Loewen (1996-2004), Ken Reddig (2004-2008), Sam Steiner (2008-2012), Lucille Marr (2012-2016), Richard Thiessen (2016-2018), Royden Loewen (2018), Laureen Harder-Gissing (2018-.
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This fonds contains minutes and reports from the annual meetings as well as correspondence of the executive, financial records and project files.
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Note
Acc. no. 96-049, 08-015