This fonds consists eleven series reflecting the life and activities of a Mennonite minister, teacher and administrator who spent most of his life working with the church and its institutions and programs: 1) Pastoral work, 1937-1975; 2) Mennonite...
Friesen, Isaac Irwin, 1900-1974
This fonds contains contains some Klaassen family genealogy work, diaries and memoirs (1859-1922), and many letters from Johannes, a son of Michael Klaassen, about his lot as a conscientious objector in the United States during World War I. There ...
Klaassen, Michael, 1860-1934
This fonds consists of the memoirs of Artur Laser, a German Baptist Christian, who moved into a Mennonite community as a child, lived and went to school in Tiegerweide and Rueckenau, Molotschna, was commandeered to work in a Russian concentration ...
Laser, Artur, 1925-
This fonds contains the information gathered on the subject of labour history in Mennonite family owned businesses in Manitoba. The fonds contains the audio recordings of interviews with owners and employees conducted between 1997 and 2003. The wo...
Thiessen, Janis
This collection of letters is divided into two sections -- over 500 letters written between 1930-1938 and almost 800 letters written between 1939-1977, covering especially the post-World War II period and up to the early 1970s. There is also one f...
Bargen, Peter
This fonds consists of two ledger books recording income, expenses, payroll starting on October 6, 1911. The diary portion begins on the same day and usually makes brief mention of weather, farm activities and travel. The second ledger continues t...
Willms, Franz, 1852-1921
This fonds consists of correspondence, much of it with Charlotte Sauer, regarding the translation and publication of the translation of Eric Sauer's "Das Morgenbrot der Welterloesunge", manuscripts of the Eric Sauer translation, ser...
Dirks, Alexander, 1891-1985
This fonds contains a composite photograph consisting of 167 individual portraits of Mennonite men that served in the Imperial Russia's Forestry service at Razin, a photograph of teacher Heinrich Johan Dueck (1862-1922) with students of schoo...
Albrecht, Abram P.
This fonds contains 276 photographs taken and received by Arthur W. Slagel during his 3-year assignment with Mennonite Central Committee from 1920-1923. The collection has photos of the relief work in Russia showing various aspects of the work inc...
Slagel, Arthur W., 1891-1943
This fonds contains documents pertaining to the life of William Hespeler, such as confirmation of attending the Polytechnic Institute in Karlsruhe (1847-1849), of deferment from military service in 1850, of immigration to Canada, and of naturaliz...
Hespeler, William, 1830-1921