February 7, 2020 Volume 43 Issue 17 | This four-story home and its surrounding outbuildings, pictured in 1923, was the residence of D.S. Russek, a wealthy banker in Chihuahua, Mexico. His firm, David S. Russek and Company was a significant player in the efforts to sell land to Mennonites from Read More

January 17, 2020 Volume 43 Issue 16 | Many of the villages originally created in southern Manitoba by Mennonite settlers have long since disappeared. Some of them were dealt a death knell when large numbers of Mennonites migrated south. The villages were modelled on the Strassendorf system imported from Russia Read More

January 3, 2020 Volume 43 Issue 15 | This photo is of a group of Sommerfeld Mennonites visiting in Rosenbach, near present day Winkler, Manitoba in 1919. Back row (left to right): Frank Enns (1844-1933), Isaac Wiens (1842-1920), Rev. William Friesen (1865-1936) and then 5 unknown young girls. Front row Read More

December 13, 2019 Volume 43 Issue 14 | A.A. DeFehr, president (right), and shop foreman Victor Kehler (left), pose outside DeFehr’s furniture manufacturing enterprise in this 1950s photo taken in Winnipeg. If your surname is De Veer, Fehr, DeFehr, or Defehr and you live in Mexico, U.S.A., Canada, Paraguay, Belize, or Bolivia, Read More

November 29, 2019 Volume 43 Issue 13 | The S.S. Peruvian was a steam and wind powered ship that carried Mennonites from Europe to Quebec City.  The Peruvian was built by the Allan Ship Line based in Liverpool, England.  It was 312 feet long and 38 feet wide and weighed Read More