January 2, 2017 Volume 21 Issue 1 | George Wiebe conducts the Canadian Mennonite Bible College (CMBC) choir in an impromptu song on a B.C. ferry while on tour in May 1966. The choir gave 24 performances in 17 days, and 39 of the 43 singers also spoke at these Read More
October 10, 2016 Volume 20 Issue 20 | Henry Neufeld, right, spent a lifetime building positive relationships among Mennonite and indigenous peoples. He is pictured standing beside Pastor Jeremiah Ross from Cross Lake, Man., at a Conference of Mennonites in Canada (now Mennonite Church Canada) conference in Vancouver in 1981. Read More
June 20, 2016 Volume 20 Issue 13 | Alexander Fast (1888-1942), front row right, and his second wife Selinde Fast (1894-1973) fled to Germany from Russia during the Russian Revolution and were immigrants to Canada in 1928. In this photo, taken in 1933, they are at the Winnipeg train station Read More
In 1927, Johannes Dyck escaped with his wife and nine children from the former Soviet Union. Exit visas were hard to obtain, and Mennonite emigrants like the Dycks were not allowed to take large sums of money. This was a problem for Dyck, who had been a prosperous farmer. So Read More
Faith groups struggle to maintain archival collections. When churches close, congregations are faced with many questions: What happens to the staff? What happens to the remaining members? What about the building? One question near the bottom of the list may be: What happens to the records? While it might not be Read More