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- 1875-1925 (Creation)
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5 cm of textual records
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Administrative history
The village of Osterwick, Manitoba was founded by Mennonite settlers from the "Old Colony" (Russia) in 1875. Its importance as a village grew after the Post Road was established bringing Mennonite and non-Mennonite travelers through the village. In the 1920s , many in the "Old Colony church" (officially called the Reinländer Gemeinde) felt that the Canadian government could not be trusted and decided to move to Mexico. Many of the dwellings in Osterwick were then bought and inhabited by a new wave on Mennonite immigrants fleeing the famine and Revolution in Russia.
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Archival history
This collection was originally photocopied by Peter Brown, of Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1975. The originals were brought in again by Jake Peters of Winkler, Manitoba (a student at CMBC) in September, 1977. Peter Brown photocopied all the material (earlier), but at times some pages were cut off in the process of photocopying. Consequently, the originals were photocopied again, in part, using 8 1/2" x 14" paper where the original was also of that length. Because Peter had bound his photocopied collection haphazardly at places, it was unbound and rearranged.
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This collection of material consists of financial records from 1879-1880 and 1889-1890, two church or village registers and a fire insurance register. The first village register contains entries up to 1890 and the other up to 1925.
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In Gothic German handwriting
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Microfilm # 16 (filmed in 1977)
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The inventory file list was prepared by Dennis Stoesz, 5 October 1977.