Hundred-year-old images on fragile glass negatives, discovered in a dusty barn in the heritage village of Neubergthal, Man., open a window to Mennonite life in Manitoba in the early 20th century. These photographs, along with other archive collections, make up the new book, Mennonite Village Photography: Views from Manitoba 1890-1940. The volume is 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
The Mennonite Historical Society of Canada is utilizing the resources of Mennonite universities in Canada to research and write an updated history book on the history of Mennonites in Canada from 1970-2020. They have invited Conrad Grebel University College (Grebel) Archivist-Librarian Laureen Harder-Gissing to co-author this book with Brian Froese, Read More