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Alexander Rempel fonds

  • CA MHCA Volumes 3778-3781; 3933-3937; 3938-3960; 3309; 3420-3440; 4840-4841; 5508-5509 Microfilm 657-684; Microfiche 13-20, 22-24; Photograph Collection 348.
  • Fonds
  • 1908-1984, predominant 1929-1941, 1959-1984

This fond consists of nine series. They include: 1) Linguistics; 2) Russian / Prussian Mennonite history; 3) World War Two history; 4) Education; 5) Anabaptist history (with a sub series on catechisms); 6) Theology; 7) Genealogy; 8) Russian history; 9) Philosophy and History. These series contain handwritten notes, manuscripts by the author, card indexes, photocopies, pictures, micro media, and a few original documents. The numerous photocopies and micro media are of books and articles, some of which are extremely rare. It is difficult to determine when the copies or notes were made: therefore, the creation date of the files are often [19-]. In many cases, the correspondence and manuscripts are the only way to date his research. In some cases, the date of publication is not known and an estimate was made. Most of the material is in German. Other languages present include Low German, French, Dutch, English, Russian, Latin, and Czechoslovakian. Some of the oldest materials are written in Gothic Old German script style, however, most of the material is not in Gothic.

Rempel, Alexander, 1915-1985

Allen J. Schultz fonds

  • CA MHCA Vol. 2119-6
  • Fonds
  • 1977

This fonds contains one booklet entitled "Memoirs and Reflections by Missionary A. J. Schultz".

Schultz, Allen J., 1891-1981

Altona Bergthaler Mennonite Church fonds

  • CA MHCA Vols. 19, 20, 1110, 1999-2003, 2007-2010, 2256, 2262, 2271, 3267, 3817, 4430; Microfilm 215-218.
  • Fonds
  • 1913-1997, predominant 1950-1997

This fonds consists of congregational bulletins (1965-1997), congregational newsletters (1981-1997), congregational directories (1978, 1980, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1995), minutes of (Women's) Sewing Circle (1913-1937), finance committee (1953-1979), church council (1965-1979), ministerial committee (1967-1979),personnel committee, deacons committee, and search committee meeting minutes (1976-1978), worship committee, and MDS meeting minutes (1965-1967, 1976-1979), Education Committee meeting minutes (1962-1965), Sunday School teachers' meeting minutes (1966-1971), Education Commission, library committee, and music committee meeting minutes (1976-1978), World Mission commission, Home missions commission, missions committee, and service committee meeting minutes (1965-1969), congregational meeting minutes and reports (1949-1967, 1976-1978, 1984).

Altona Bergthaler Mennonite Church (Manitoba)

Altona Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference Church fonds

  • CA MHCA Volumes 5502-5507
  • Fonds
  • 1950-1999

These materials show the activities and priorities of the local congregation from annual, church board and ministerial meetings to specific activities such as Sunday school, cradle roll committee meetings and weekly Sunday worship services.

Altona Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference Church

Altona Mennonite Church fonds

  • CA MHCA Vols. 21, 22, 855, 2218, 2219, 2955, 3927, 4495; Microfilm 347, 348.
  • Fonds
  • 1962-2001

The fonds consists of a congregational history (1972), constitutions (1962-1993), bulletins (1962-2000), directories (1963-2001), founding documents (1962-1963), annual reports (1962-1999), newsletters (1962-1988), financial records (1963-1990), minutes of congregational meetings, church council, and various committees (1962-2000), correspondence (1962-2000), and church and family registers (1971-1981). The records pertain to the founding and development of the Altona Mennonite Church and they documents the leaders and participants of the congregation.

Altona Mennonite Church (Manitoba)

Anna Baerg fonds

  • CA MHCA Volume 1720-1723
  • Fonds
  • 1913-1959, predominant 1916-1926

This fonds contains photocopied originals and typed transcripts of the diaries, poetry and other writings of Anna Baerg. Clara K. Dyck transcribed the diaries and some of the other writings, and also provided some interpretive commentary. The diaries, which include the years 1916-1926, and 1959, detail the every day life experiences of a young woman in a Mennonite community in Russia during the years of war, revolution, and civil war, followed by her emigration to Canada.

Baerg, Anna

Anna Peters fonds

  • CA MHCA Volume 5425: 8-13
  • Fonds
  • 1933-1948, predominant 1945-1948

This fonds has mainly the correspondence (1945-1948) between Anna Peters in Germany, her sister Maria (Peters) Bergen in Canada and her nephew John Bergen, at first in Oldenburg, Germany, later back in Canada, and her niece, Margaret Bergen in Canada. Anna's first letter to her sister Maria Bergen after the war was sent along with a Canadian soldier stationed in Wiesmoor, who was returning to Canada. No correspondence was yet allowed between Germany and Canada at the time. Maria was able to send a letter to her son John Bergen, who was in the Dental Corps, as a member of the occupation forces stationed in Oldenburg, Germany, and through him contact could be made and letters received. For several months all letters from Anna Peters (Germany) to her sister Maria (Canada) were forwarded via John Bergen in Oldenburg, Germany.

There are also three letters which pre-date the 1945-1948 period -- one written by Anna's brother, Anton Peters in 1934, another by her father Abram Peters in 1933, and one by Anna herself as a 13 year-old, describing their dire circumstances having the last potatoes, etc. taken by the communists and begging for a dollar (1933).

Peters, Anna, 1919-

Anna Sawatzky family fonds

  • CA MHCA Volume 5030
  • Fonds
  • 1905-1974, predominant 1947-1965

The materials in this fonds consists of eight diaries covering 18 years written by Anna Sawatzky (born Anna Funk) and some Mennonite private and public school textbooks used by Abram Friesen and Abram Driedger. The diaries are factual in nature showing little of the author's emotions but showing the activities of the author, immediate and extended family, the weather, and events taking place at church on Sunday morning. Also included is some poetry collected by Anna Sawatzky and a 29 page "Funk Familie Register". The diaries are an example of the life of an ordinary Southern Manitoba Mennonite housewife's life. The educational materials are an example of the kinds of resources the Mennonites used in their public and private school systems during the first two decades of the 20th century in Manitoba.

Sawatzky family

Arnaud Mennonite Church fonds

  • CA MHCA Vols. 1943, 3552, 4500, 4629, 4827; Microfilm no. 357, 358
  • Fonds
  • 1944-2000

This fonds contains bulletins (1977-2000), minutes of congregational mission societies (1962-1983), related documents of these mission societies (1962-1983), congregational annual reports (1982, 1993, 1995), and various congregational registers (1944-1999), and a 50th anniversary book of the congregation. The records pertain to the founding and development of the Mennonite congregation in Arnaud, Manitoba and they documents the leaders and participants in this congregation.

Arnaud Mennonite Church

Arthur W. Slagel fonds

  • CA MHCA Photograph Collection 665
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1923

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 including workers, headquarters, storage, distribution, seeded and distributed crops, transportation, buildings and homes. The photos were taken in locations such as Chortitza, Alexandrosk, Schoenwiese, Rosenthal, Halbstadt, Gnadenfeld, Ohrloff, Nicopol, and Sagradowka. There are images of the 1923 emigration group from Schoenwiese leaving for Canada. There are general scenic photos of the Dnieper rapids, the Kremlin and other sites in Moscow. Some photographs were likely given to Slagel from Mennonite workers in Russia, such as the Solomon Ediger family, the Peter Nikkel family, the Johann Janzen family, the Ohrloff teachers and others. And, finally there are photos of travels taken in England, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland, Egypt, Palestine and Syria.

Slagel, Arthur W., 1891-1943

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