Mennonite Heritage Centre 2003
Last updated 21 April 2004

Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Coaldale Mennonite Church

Retrieval numbers: Volumes 87, 655, 1948, 3541, 4486.

Title: Coaldale Mennonite Church fonds
Dates: 1962-1996
Extent: 40 cm of textual records
Repository: Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives

Historical note

The Coaldale Mennonite Church was founded in 1928 in Coaldale, Alberta. Eleven families were charter members. They used rented facilities for worship. In 1931 they began to build their own meeting house but only completed the basement. The membership was 49 in 1931. The rest of the building was completed in the winter of 1936-1937. In 1948 the membership was 136. In 1949 this meeting house was enlarged. In 1954 the membership was 288. In 1958 a new larger meeting house was built. In 1960 the membership was 311. Later an education wing was added. The membership remained at just over 300 until 2000 when it was 324, the year the congregation withdrew from the Conference of Mennonites in Canada. The leaders of the congregation were: P. P. Dyck (1928-1929), Jacob Gerbrandt (1930-1932), Peter Schellenberg (1932-1981), Wilhelm Martens (1934-1945), F. W. Dyck (1931-1979), Johan Görtz (1931-1935), Johann Vogt (1931-1946), Abram Enns (1936-1977), Peter Friesen (1936-1946), Peter Goossen (1941-1943), Klaas Janzen (1943-1948), Heinrich Lepp (1948-1953), Jacob Siemens (1949-1965), Peter Unger (1949-1955), Otto Bartel (1954-1955), Johannes Dyck (1954-1961), Peter Retzlaff (1967-1975), Norman Bergen (1976-1986), F. David Dyck (1987-1989), Peter Funk (1990-1997), Ed Balzer (1998-2000+).

Scope and content note

This fonds contains bulletins (1968-1996), annual reports (1962-2000), Conference of Mennonites of Alberta newsletters (1987), congregatgional newsletter (1989-1993), constitutions (1968-1993), congregational meeting minutes (1971-1978), directories (1975-1994), and congregational histories (1953-1978). The records pertain to the founding and development of the Mennonite congregation in Coaldale, Alberta. They document some of the leaders and participants in the congregation.

Index terms

Subject terms

Coaldale Mennonite Church

Creators

Coaldale Mennonite Church

Adjunct descriptive data

Finding aids

Inventory file list available.

Notes

Restrictions on access

No restrictions on access.

Other notes

Textual records were deposited by the congregation until 1997 at the Mennonite Heritage Centre. Described by Bert Friesen 3 October 2002.

Coaldale Mennonite Church fonds file list:

Volume 655

  1. Coaldale Mennonite Church annual reports (1962-1966)
  2. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1968), constitution (1968)
  3. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1969), constitutional amendments (1969)
  4. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1970)
  5. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1971), congregational meeting minutes (1971)
  6. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1972), congregational meeting minutes (1972), annual reports (1972)
  7. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1973)

Volume 87

  1. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1974), congregational meeting minutes (1974), annual reports (1974)
  2. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1975), congregational meeting minutes (1975), annual reports (1975), directory (1975)
  3. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1976), annual reports (1976)
  4. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1977), annual reports (1977)
  5. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1978), congregational meeting minutes (1978), statement on the Christian and civil responsibility ([197-?]), pictorial directory (1978), 25th anniversary history booklet (1953)
  6. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1979)

Volume 1948

  1. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1980)
  2. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1981)
  3. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1982)
  4. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1983)
  5. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1984), pictorial directory (1984)
  6. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1985), directory (1985), annual reports (1985)
  7. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1986), annual reports (1986)
  8. Coaldale Mennonite Church 50th anniversary book (1978)

Volume 3541

  1. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1987), annual reports (1987), Conf. of Menn. in Alberta (CMA) newsletter (1987)
  2. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1988), annual reports (1988), constitution (1988)
  3. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1989), newsletter ([1989?]), annual reports (1989)
  4. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1990), annual reports (1990)
  5. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1991), directory (1991), newsletters (1991), Annual Reports (1991).
  6. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1992), directory (1992), newsletters (1992), Annual Reports (1992).
  7. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1993), annual reports (1993), newsletters (1993), constitution (1993), directory (1993)

Volume 4486

  1. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1994), directory (1994)
  2. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1995), directory (1995)
  3. Coaldale Mennonite Church bulletins (1996)
  4. Coaldale Annual Reports (1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000).