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  • Reinland, Manitoba

    • Repository: Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives

    Retrieval numbers:     Volumes 1091-1093

    Title: Reinland, Manitoba Village fonds
    Dates: 1875-1936
    Extent: 21 cm of textual records

    Historical note

    The village of Reinland was established on the Manitoba Mennonite West Reserve in the summer of 1875 by Mennonite immigrants from the Chortitza and Fuerstenland colonies in south Russia. Since the Chortitza Colony had been the first established colony of Mennonites in Russia, its residents and residents from its daughter colony of Fuerstenland, were known as "Altkolonist" (or Old Colony people). Johann Wiebe was the first Bishop (Aeltester) and Isaak Mueller was the civic leader (Oberschultz) for the Old Colony settlers in Manitoba. The village of Reinland was one of the bigger and more important villages in the Mennonite West Reserve. One of the contributing factors to Reinland's importance was that fact that the Post Road ran through this village. (The Post Road was a road established by the Mennonites under Isaak Mueller's direction in 1878 with posts in the side of the roads to guide travelers in with harsh and snowy winters).
    Many members of the village moved to Mexico in the early 1920s when they felt they could not trust the Canadian government. The houses and farms were bought by new Mennonite immigrants from the USSR.

    Scope and content note

    This collections consists mainly of the village books covering the period 1875-1936, with a few gaps. The records record financial affairs of the village such as the levies on village inhabitants. There are also a set of community announcements (1917-1918), contracts with village teachers and shepherds, property transactions and other miscellaneous papers(1881-1904).

    Index terms

    Subject terms


    Isaak Mueller
    Johann Wiebe

    Creators

    Reinland, Manitoba

    Adjunct descriptive data

    Finding aids

    Box file list

    Related material in this repository

    Mennonites in Mexico fonds. Old Colony Mennonite Church fonds. Johann Wall fonds.

    Notes

    Custodial history

    Frank Suderman who recieved these village papers from the family of the former village administrator, Johann Peters. The material were brought to the MHC Archives in four deposits - September - October 1975, September - October 1976, April - June 1977, and January 10, 1978. 

    Language

    material is all in German gothic handwriting.

    Arrangement

    Described by Conrad Stoesz September 13, 1999. Reviewed and revised by Alf Redekopp, Oct. 2006.

    Restrictions on access

    none

    Reinland Village (Manitoba) fonds inventory file list


    VOLUME 1091
    REINLAND (MANITOBA W.R.) VILLAGE PAPERS
    1. Theilungs-Verordnungen - Reinland
    2. Dorfsbuch (Village & Colony documents) - 1875 <>liDorfsbuch (Village & Colony documents) - 1876
    3. Dorfsbuch (Village & Colony documents) - 1877
    4. Dorfsbuch (Village & Colony documents) - 1878
    5. Dorfsbuch (Village & Colony documents) - 1879
    6. Dorfsbuch (Village & Colony documents) - 1880
    7. Dorfsbuch (Village & Colony documents) - 1881
    8. Dorfsbuch (Village & Colony documents) - 1883-84
    9. Dorfsbuch (Village & Colony documents) - 1888-1901
    10. Befehlbuch (Village & Colony documents) - 1915-17
    11. Bekanntmachungen (Village & Colony documents) - 1917-18
    12. Miscellaneous papers 1879-1907 (including statistical summaries - 1881-1904)
    13. Miscellaneous papers

    VOLUME 1092
    REINLAND (MANITOBA W.R.) VILLAGE ORGANIZATION
    1. Account Book (Zeichenbuch)-1877
    2. Dorfsbuch-1878
    3. Zechenbuch
    4. Record of payments to (by) individuals - 1881
    5. Dorfsbuch-1882
    6. Title page of Zeichenbuch-1883
    7. Dorfsbuch - 1885
    8. Dorfsbuch - 1885-87
    9. Dorfsbuch - 1886
    10. Dorfsbuch - 1887
    11. Dorfsbuch - 1888
    12. Dorfsbuch - 1889
    13. Dorfsbuch - 1890 (Bernhard Rempel)
    14. Dorfsbuch - 1891 (Peter Letkemann)
    15. Dorfsbuch - 1893
    16. Dorfsbuch - 1894 (Municipal Works)
    17. Dorfsbuch - 1897 (Isaak Dyck)
    18. Dorfsbuch - 1898
    19. Dorfsbuch - 1899 (Abraham Rempel)
    20. Dorfsbuch - 1900 (Abraham Rempel)
    21. Dorfsbuch - 1901 (Johann Fehr)
    22. Dorfsbuch - 1902
    23. Dorfsbuch - 1903 (Isaak Dyck)
    24. Dorfsbuch - 1904
    25. Dorfsbuch - 1905-06
    26. Dorfsbuch - 1906-07
    27. Dorfsbuch - 1907-08
    28. Accounts - 1909
    29. Record re: building school - 1910
    30. Dorfsbuch - 1911
    31. Dorfsbuch - 1912

    VOLUME 1093
    REINLAND (MANITOBA W.R.) VILLAGE ORGANIZATION
    1. Dorfsbuch - 1913
    2. Dorfsbuch - 1914
    3. Dorfsbuch - 1915
    4. Dorfsbuch - 1916
    5. Dorfsbuch - 1917
    6. Dorfsbuch - 1919-20
    7. Dorfsbuch - 1921
    8. Dorfsbuch - 1922
    9. Dorfsbuch - 1923
    10. Dorfsbuch - 1925
    11. Zechenbuch - 1926
    12. Dorfsbuch - 1927
    13. Dorfsbuch - 1932
    14. Dorfsbuch - 1933-34 (Jakob Ens)
    15. Dorfsbuch - 1935
    16. Dorfsbuch - 1936
    17. Dorfsbuch - (undated)
    18. Hirten Kontrakte
    19. Miscellaneous papers
    20. Miscellaneous papers