July 2, 2018 Volume 22 Issue 14 | Old black and white photos often leave us with the impression that past generations were dour, ridged, thought in terms of black and white, and had no fun. But the technology of photography has done us a disservice in masking some of Read More
June 18, 2018 Volume 22 Issue 13 | The Epp Garage in Fiske, Sask., suffered a devastating fire. When material, like this photograph, comes to the archives with little or no information, we can often learn about it from its context—the other “stuff” that comes with it. But in this Read More
Connie Wiebe reflects on 26 years at the Mennonite Heritage Archives. Relationships, says Connie Wiebe, defined her tenure at the Mennonite Heritage Archives (formerly Mennonite Heritage Centre). For twenty-six years, this mother, grandmother, and farmer’s wife greeted everyone from international academics and researchers to local visitors looking for family connections Read More
April 7, 2020. The online Mennonite Archival Information Database (MAID) (https://archives.mhsc.ca/) is adding five new institutional partners to the existing nine. The newly expanded database features thousands of historic photos and a quickly expanding number of entries describing one-of-a-kind letters, diaries, meeting minutes, travel documents, biographies, audio and video recordings, Read More
University welcomes Winnipeg’s first and only manuscript edition of the beloved martyrology. The CMU library is delighted to announce that it has recently acquired a 1685 edition of Martyrs Mirror. The book will be housed in CMU’s special collections rare book room and made accessible to students and faculty forthwith. Read More