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Conference of Mennonites in Canada fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1902-2000

This fonds consists of the records of the various committee, boards, staff and offices of the Conference of Mennonites in Canada. They have been described on the basis of the conference structure under based on the 1994 conference structure for administering the program -- 3 boards and several auxillary organizations. These are:

A. General Board (1903-1999)

B. Resources Commission (1922-1999)

C. Native Ministries (1948-1994)

D. Auxilary Organizations (1947-1996) including Canadian Mennonite Youth Organization (1947-1967), Canadian Mennonite Men (1956-1981) and Canadian Women in Mission (1954-1996).

A fourth elected board under the conference structure was the Canadian Mennonite Bible College board, which has been described as a separate fonds.

Conference of Mennonites in Canada

Conference of United Mennonite Churches in Ontario fonds

  • CA MHCA Volume 679-681, 1894-1915, 2296, 2607, 3674-3678; Microfilm nos. 208-213
  • Fonds
  • 1923-1987

This fonds consists of programs, reports and minutes of annual delegate conferences (1947-1987) and of various conference committees and projects (ca. 1950-1977); records of the deacons and ministers conferences 1929-1976, minutes of related organizations such as the immigrant association, relief committee, Mennonite Central Committee, and Inter-Mennonite Executive Council; conference yearbooks (1947-1987); miscellaneous paper (1937-1977); and reports from several member congregations (Ottawa, 1960-1976; Waters, 1959-1963; Hamilton, 1954-1966; Rockway, 1962.

Conference of United Mennonite Churches in Ontario

Cornelius B. Krahn fonds

  • CA MHCA Vol. 2113-9
  • Fonds
  • after 1920

This fonds contains approximately 50 sermonettes.

Krahn, Cornelius B., 1883-1975

Cornelius C. and Gertrude Neufeld Fonds

  • CA MHCA Volume 1718-1719
  • Fonds
  • 1907-1979, predominant 1930-1979

This fonds contains materials concerning Bethel Mennonite Church, the wider church, their work in education, and personal matters. The Bethel Church materials consist primarily of minutes, reports and correspondence relating to various committees and church activities. From the wider church, there are materials from the Bible Society, the General Conference Mennonite Church, and the Mennonite World Conference. The education materials include teaching notes, aids and resources, administration materials, exams, and minutes from the Winnipeg Science Teachers Association and the Teachers' Science Club. Finally, the collection includes a variety of personal items including receipts, publications on home building and renovation, personal notebooks, artwork from their children, materials from the Credit Union and CFAM, travel resources and records, and correspondence.

Neufeld, Cornelius C., 1906-1977

Cornelius G. Stoesz fonds

  • CA MHCA Volumes 3273-3275 2121-1, microfilm 182, 183.
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1984, predominant 1937-1970

This fonds contains primarily sermons by Cornelius G. Stoesz (1892-1976) and his father Cornelius W. Stoesz (1869-1925) Other material includes personal financial records, church reports, bulletins, and membership lists. Three series have been identified in this collection. 1) Cornelius G. Stoesz sermon material 2) Church documents collected by Cornelius G. Stoesz 3) Cornelius W. Stoesz sermons.

Stoesz, Conrnelius G.

Cornelius H. and Elisabeth (Fast) Froese family fonds

  • CA MHCA MHC16
  • Fonds
  • 1931-1937

This fond consists of letters, poems, and other written excerpts which were received and preserved by the family of Cornelius and Elisabeth Froese. The items give a picture of life in the former Soviet Union during the 1930s. They show the sense of dire poverty, poor crops, and loss of property and goods. They speak of life working in a collective farm and the difficulties created when the required food or fees could not be raised. One letter comes from Brazil, where another family member emigrated. A few letters seems to be from a later period when it was possible to travel between the USSR and Canada and visit relatives. Two letters were translated by John Froese (1924-2012). The remainder of the items were translated by the Mennonite Heritage Centre volunteer Ed Enns in 2012.

Froese, Cornelius H. and Elisabeth (Fast)

Cornelius J. Warkentin Fonds

  • CA MHCA Volume 2237, 2239-2242, 4193-4198
  • Fonds
  • 1940-1965

This fonds consists of correspondence and other documents that were created or received by Warkentin in his capacity of Aeltester (elder) of the Ebenfelder Mennonite Church. The letters were exchanged with, and the other materials received from, a variety of church leaders and Mennonite institutions, including: the Conference of Mennonites in Canada and its subcommittees; the General Conference Mennonite Church and its subcommittees; the Rosthern Junior College and the Rosthern Bible School; Mennonite Biblical Seminary; Bethel College; the Mennonite Publication Office and Bookstore; the Rosthern Bookstore; the Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization; the British Foreign Bible Society and the Canadian Bible Society; the Canadian Mennonite, the Mennonite Central Committee; the Mennonite Youth Farm; Mennonite Disaster Services; the Swift Current Bible Institute; Freeman Junior College; and various mission programs and mission fields. Some of the materials are filed alphabetically (1943-1948), some by month (1948-1955; 1963-1965), and some by year (1955-1962).

Warkentin, Cornelius J., 1899-

Cornelius Klaassen family genealogy collection.

  • CA MHCA Volume 5192
  • Fonds
  • [197-?] – 2002

The collection consists of four 3 ringed binders with pages in plastic sleeves containing vital statistics, narratives, reproduced documents and some original photographs documenting the lives of Cornelius Klaassen and his descendants.

Klaassen, Lloyd Jay

Cornelius Krause fonds

  • CA MHCA Photograph Collections 590 and 592
  • Fonds
  • 1922-1923

This collection consists of copies of the photos collected by Cornelius Krause from a Mexican land agent that traveled with Krause and other Mennonite delegates from Manitoba and Saskatchewan who were investigating the possibility of the migration of a group of Mennonites from Canada to Mexico and photos taken by Cornelius Krause himself while investigating Mexico as a possible country to which a group of Manitoba and Saskatchewan Mennonites could move. The photos which Krause took himself show people and places visited on the trip in Mexico (Collection 592). The photos by the land agent (Collection 590) taken before the arrival of the Mennonite delegation and during their visit to Mexico. The photos were taken to encourage the Mennonites to move to Mexico. They show road and railway construction, wide open wild areas, places where there was water, villages, homes, and fields successfully developed by the Old Colony and Sommerfeld Mennonites who had moved to Mexico in 1922.

Krause, Cornelius, 1886-1986

Cornelius W. Friesen fonds

  • CA MHCA Vol. 2107-2
  • Fonds
  • 1930-1972

This fonds contains: 1)a Christmas sermon 2)a sermon for the first Sunday after New Years 3) notes from a ministerial meeting held in Altona discussing what to do with those who had paricipated in military service and other related issues 4) 25 obituaries 5) ten wedding and anniversary sermons 6) 17 funeral sermons 7) a variety of notes related to funeral sermons.

Friesen, Cornelius W., 1901-1975

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