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Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Rosemary Mennonite Church

Retrieval numbers: Volumes 92, 2134, 2417, 3194, 3303, 3913, 4016.

Title: Rosemary Mennonite Church fonds
Dates: 1959-2004

Extent: 48 cm of textual records
Repository: Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives

Historical note

The Rosemary Mennonite Church was founded in 1930 as the Westheimer Mennonite Church with meeting houses in Rosemary and Gem. In Rosemary they met in rented facilities. In 1932 the membership was 111. A Bible School operated in Rosemary from 1930 to 1941 when it was moved to Didsbury. In 1935 they built their own meeting house. The membership was 219 in 1935 and by 1938 it was 300. This building was enlarged in 1947 and 1949. The membership was 364 in 1951. In 1961 a new larger meeting house was built on the same site. In Gem, they met in rented facilities until 1946-1947 when they built their own meeting house. In 1958 the church divided into two individual congregations. The Rosemary group then became the Rosemary Mennonite Church; it was the larger of the two. In 1967 the membership was 217; it remained at around this level, being 214 in 2000. The leaders of the congregation were: Cornelius Harder (1930-1945), Peter P. Dyck (1930-1956), Heinrich Janzen (1930-1958), Jacob Neufeld (1935-1945), Peter W. Dyck (1936-1958), Johann Löwen (1933-1945), Jacob Klassen (1939-1976), Johann Penner (1939-1953), David P. Neufeld (1944-1961), Jacob Nickel (1945-1977), Leonard Adrian (1949-1964), Arthur Regier (1967-1971), Ernie Sawatzky (1972-1979), Abraham Regier (1979-1984), Jacob Wiens (1985-1986), Jake Unrau (1987-1998), George Baerg (2000), Roy Hewko (2001- ).

Scope and content note

This fonds contains bulletins (1964-2001), dedication programme (1961), 40th anniversary programme (1970), brief congregational history (1976), a brief history of the Rosemary Bible School (1976), John A. Dyck memories, 1894-1912 (1976), annual reports (1959,1975-2003), congregational meeting minutes (1959-1961, 1975-1999), congregational office holders (1977), directories (1977, 1997), newsletter (1982), conference of Mennonites in Alberta delegate report (1989), and congregational constitution and bylaws (1959). The records pertain to the founding and development of the Mennonite congregation Rosemary, Alberta. They document some of the leaders and participants in the congregation.

Subject terms

Rosemary Mennonite Church

Creators

Rosemary Mennonite Church

Westheimer Mennonite Church

Adjunct descriptive data

Finding aids

Inventory file list available.

Related Materials

David P. Neufeld Collection (Vol. 3194)
J.D. Nickel Papers (Vol. 4138-4144) - [some restrictions apply.]

Notes

Restrictions on access

No restrictions on access.

Other notes

Textual records have been deposited by the congregation on a regular basis at the Mennonite Heritage Centre. Described by Bert Friesen 11 December 2002.

Rosemary Mennonite Church fonds file list:

Volume 92

  1. Rosemary Mennonite Church dedication programme (1961)
  2. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1964)
  3. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1965)
  4. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1966)
  5. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1967)
  6. Rosemary Mennonite Church 40th anniversary programme (1970), brief congregational history (1976), a brief history of the Rosemary Bible School (1976), John A. Dyck memories, 1894-1912 (1976)
  7. Rosemary Mennonite Church annual reports (1975, 1976), congregational minutes (1975-1977), congregational office holders (1977)
  8. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1977), directory (1977)
  9. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1978)
  10. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1979), congregational meeting minutes (1979), annual reports (1979)
  11. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1980), annual reports (1980)

Volume 2417

  1. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1981), annual reports (1981)
  2. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1982), annual reports (1982), congregational meeting minutes (1982-1983), newsletter (1982)
  3. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1983), annual reports (1983), congregational meeting minutes (1983-1984)
  4. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1984)
  5. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1985)
  6. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1986), annual reports (1986), congregational meeting minutes (1986-1987)
  7. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1987), annual reports (1987), congregational meeting minutes (1987-1988)

Volume 3303

  1. Rosemary Mennonite Church annual reports (1978-1984), congregational meeting minutes (1978-1985)
  2. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1988), annual reports (1988), congregational meeting minutes (1988-1989)
  3. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1989), conference of Mennonites in Alberta delegate report (1989), annual reports (1989), congregational meeting minutes (1989-1990)
  4. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1990), annual reports (1990), congregational meeting minutes (1990-1991),
  5. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1991), annual reports (1991), congregational meeting minutes (1991-1992)

Volume 3913

  1. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1992), annual reports (1992), congregational meeting minutes (1992-1993)
  2. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1993), annual reports (1993), congregational meeting minutes (1993-1994)
  3. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1994), annual reports (1994), congregational meeting minutes (1994-1995)
  4. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1995)
  5. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1996), annual reports (1996)
  6. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1997), congregational meeting minutes (1997), directory (1997)

Volume 4016

  1. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1998), annual reports (1998)
  2. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (1999), congregational meeting minutes (1999)
  3. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (2000)
  4. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (2001)

Volume 3194 (D.P. Neufeld Colleciton)

  1. Rosemary Mennonite Church annual reports (1959), congregational meeting minutes and reports (1959-1961), congregational constitution and bylaws (1959)

Volume 2134

  1. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (2002), Annual Reports (2002).
  2. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (2003), Annual Reports (2003) Photo Directory (2003)
  3. Rosemary Mennonite Church bulletins (2004)