3.293 Small Archival Collection

Volume 3.293 Small Archival Collection

Bartsch, Reg & Jennie
– The photos  and other items listed below were in the collection of John Bartsch of Saskatoon, Sask.
– Photos – black and white
– Hague Mennonite Church baptism classes and teachers, 1941, 1943, 1946, 1949. – Student and staff of Taber Bible School, Dalmeny, about 1940, 42 photos
– CO Camp at Sandy Lake, Saskatchewan, 1942. 29 photos
– 12 photos of mostly young people. Persons identified are Ervin Wiebe of Langham and Malinda Friesen-Dirks.
– Special Civil Defence Course #111 for Mennonite Leaders – Valley Centre, Fort Qu’Appelle, Sask. – January 31 to February 3 1961
Other items:
– Certificate and Badge from the Saskatchewan Provincial Civil Defence School awarded to John Bartsch, Saskatoon.
– Newspaper article and photos about Conscientous Objectors of Camp Two, Prince Albert National Park. Date of the paper is missing.

Buck, Edgar
– Nature’s Beauties card, 10″ x 8″.  Given to Jakob Neufeld by his parents, Dez. 25, 1898
– Weihnachts Wünsche card, 10″ x 8″. Given to Katie J. Neufeldt by her parents, n.d.

Driedger, John W.
– Conscientious Objector documents and photos relating to John W. Driedger’s Alternative Service Programme experience in Prince Albert National Park during World War II.
– Black and white photos showing COs working and socializing in the PANP camp.
– A list of names of men who served in the 1941 camp.
– A Certificate of Recognition awarded to John W. Driedger by MCC Saskatchewan on November 10, 1990.
– A column in the Prince Albert Daily Herald entitled “Mennonites Help Improve Trails.”
– Flyer advertising Bill Waiser’s book Park Prisoners: The Untold Story of Western Canada’s National Parks, 1915-1946. 1995

Driediger, Maria
– Large print German New Testament which belonged to Gertruda Jakob Penner, nee Sawatzky, (20.01.1859 – 02.03.1932) grandmother of Maria Driediger.

Dyck, Mary M.
Photographs:
– Katherina Paetkau / Esther – August 1990
– Carl & Genevieve Enns
– Bethany Manor, first phase – 110 LaRonge Rd., 1986
– Zoar Mennonite Church, Waldheim, Sask., 1930s  [Vol. 3.293 SAC]

Enns, Larry
– Photographs in two collections: 1) LE #1 – LE  #21, physical photographs. People known to Larry Enns’ parents.  2) LE #22 – LE #57 – John and Susie Dyck collection.
– DVD – Entire photograph collection, LE #1 to LE #57.

Friesen, Fred
– Booklet of German Scripture verses and poetry, handwritten
– Die Bibel nach der deutschen Übersetzung D. Martin Luthers. Stuttgart: Privilegierte Württembergische Bibelanstalt

Friesen, Kay
– Kroeker, A. Heimatklänge. Eine Sammlung meistens älterer, bewährter Kernlieder deutchen und engischen Ursprungs. Mountain Lake, Minn.: Selbstverlag des Verfassers A. Kroeker

Friesen, Neil
– Gesangbuch. Eine sammlung geistlicher Lieder zur Allgemeinen erbauung und zum Lobe Gottes. Elhart, Indiana: Mennonitischen Verlagshandlung, 1918

Froese, Anita
–  25th and 50th anniversary celebration invitation card in honor of Art & Anita Froese and Geert & Joanne Sprank.  The card has pencil sketches of the couples.
– Die Bibel oder die ganze Heilige Schrift nach der deutchen Übersetzung D. Martin Luthers. Stuttgart: Privileg. Württemb. Bibelanstalt,  printed in 1937.  This Bible belonged to Anita Froese’s sister, Helen (Martens) Bergen. It was a gift from her parents, Abram and Anna Martens, in 1937. 

Funk, Peter E.
– Small binder containing sermons and programs related to installation services and a Manual for the Helping Healing Ministries prepared by the Board of Christian Service of the Conference of Mennonites in Canada.

Goertz, Phyllis
– Mayfield, AuNell. Buhler’s History. Soft cover booklet, hand printed with black and white drawings. 30p.
– Centennial History of Hoffnungsau Mennonite Church, 1874-1974. North Newton, Kansas: Mennonite Press, Inc., 143p.
– Sawatzky, Peter G., Editor in Chief. The Torch, 43 – Rosthern Bible School yearbook.
– Notebook written in German Gothic script by “198930 Jacob Peters”  Compilation of photocopied pages of the original booklet plus the English translation.

Goertzen, Helen
– Notebook – “Recitation Book”

Hildebrand, Abram u. Helena
– Correspondence, 1923-1926, in Gothic German, translated by Mary Loeppky.
– Krause, Carl 
– Who Was George White? 
– “Stories just keep growing with each telling” by Ted Hainworth, The Starphoenix 

Loewen, Jake & Marie
– The Saskatoon Phenix, Saskatoon, N.W.T., Vol. I. No 1. October 17, 1902

Neufeldt, Victoria Emilie
– Stitched German Spruch on paper background with frame, n.d. “Herr Bleibe bei uns denn es will Abend werden.” The spruch was inherited by Emilie (Giesbrecht) Neufeldt from her stepfather, the Rev. David Epp of Laird,  Sask. She is quite sure that it came from the Old Country. She doesn’t know who made it.
– Russian postcard scrapbook.  Messages in German.  Postcards dated from1904 to 1915. Many of the pictures on the postcards depict battle scenes with horses.

Pennell, Helen
– Flaming Mandtler history
– German “Familien Chronik”
–             1) Tag der Trauung
–             2) Kinder – a list of 13 names and birth dates, 1841 to 1864
–             3) Voreltern
– List of events beginning 1914 and ending in 1918, in German
– “Journey from Russia to America: Your parents’ Life was very difficult”
– English translation of German documents by Peter Mandtler.
–             1) Family Chronicle – Wedding Day – Family Register
–             2) Children – 11 names and birth dates with note “children of Maria Voth & Andreas Flaming
–             3) Ancestors … family 1867 to 1912
–             4) Our …. 1868 to 1875
–             5) Our Family – names and some birth years
–             6) Wedding Days of our Family
–             7) Wedding Days (other)
–             8) Died
Photographs:
– Studio photo of Mr. and Mrs. Andreas Flaming. Helen Pennell does not know whether Mrs. Flaming his first wife, Anna Mandtler, or his second wife.
– Copies of photos of Aaron F. Warkentin (Helen Pennell’s father) and Anna (nee Mantler) and children, Orlando, Milton and Katie.

Penner, Melita
– High School Drama Program
– A Service of Sacred Music by the Freeman College Choir , 1954 Northern Tour
– Postcards addressed to Edith Krahn, 1954
– Rosthern Junior College brochure, 1953 or 1954
– Choir programs:
–          – Vesper Service, December 13, 1953
–          – A Christmas Candelight Service
–          – Mendelssohn Jubilee Choir Tour (RJC)
–          – Easter Program, April 13, 1954
–          – The Saskatoon Oratorio Society,  “The Messiah”, December 8, 1954
–          – “King All Glorious,” An Easter Cantata, April,1955
– RJC Grade XI Class presents “Einer Musz Heiraten” and “The Valiant”, March 11, 1955
– Graduation Weekend Duties, 1955

Peters, Herbert D.
– Wedding photo of Heinrich and Käthe Bergman

Rempel, Anne
– Correspondence in Gothic script:
– Invitation to a funeral
– Invitation to an engagement celebration
– Obituary of Johann Peters (Feb. 2, 1865 to March 20, 1945), Anne Rempel’s grandfather, Pastor of Heuhoffnung Church, Langham
– Poem “Zum 50 Jaehrigen Ehejubilaeum der Eltern” Name above title: Cornelius C. Peters (relative of Anne Rempel’s father)

Siemens, Tina
– Rosthern Bible School Notebooks, 1939-1941  
– –  VHS tapes: The Dance of the Kobzar: Scenes from the Life of John Peter Klassen, Artist As Peacemaker, Part I & II 

Wiebe, Heather
– Strip of two photograph negatives
– Letter from Tina Deckhaut dated 28 Feb., 1965
– Letter from Franz and Greta Fehr dated 18 Mar., 1994
– Envelope to J. K. Wiebe, Swift Current, Sask. dated 31 Aug., 1987
– Letter from Jacob dated 18 Sept., 1977
– Letter, typed, from Franz and Greta dated 23 Mar., 1994
– Letter from Jacob and Agnes Teichroeb dated 19 Dec., 1964
– Christmas letter undated and unnamed

Wiebe, Maria
– Tagebuch. Note inside of front cover: Maria Wiebe  Jakob Janzen  26 Marz 1912.  Entries begin Maerz 28, 1912 and end on 22/VIII, 1925

Wiens, Henry (Rev.)
– Clipping, May 25, 1998