(c)Mennonite Heritage Centre 2003
Last updated  22 February 2019

Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Title: North Kildonan Mennonite Church fonds
Dates: 1929-2016
Extent: 60 cm of textual records
Extent: 1 microfilm reel

Historical note

Mennonites first settled in North Kildonan in 1928, in part to fulfil immigration requirements to be farmers and yet be close to city employment opportunities. These families initially worshipped together even though they came from distinctly different backgrounds. In 1935 the families which affliated with the Schönwieser Gemeinde, organized their own group and built a meeting house on Devon Avenue. In 1938 this building was expanded. In 1938 Anna Vogt also began the first German Kindergarten. Further expansion of this building happened in 1943. Due to immigration after the WWII, a new meeting house basement was completed on Roch Street in 1951 and the upper building in 1956. In 1964 this building was further expanded. The congregation became independant of the Schoenwieser Gemeinde (by then known as First Mennonite Church (Winnipeg) in 1957. The membership in 1957 was 335, 415 in 1970, and 431 in 2000. The meeting house was again expanded in the late 1980s. The leaders of the congregation were: Daniel Loewen (1933-1934, 1943-1950), Johann Enns was the Schönwieser Ältester, Victor Schröder (1936-1969), H. Janzen (1936-1937), Peter Dirks (1939-1941), Is. Klassen (1945-1958), Jacob Friesen (1951-1956), Abe Rempel (1967-1978) , Jakob Wiebe (1978-1995), Henry Harder (1981), David Epp (1982-1993), Edward Enns (1988-1990), Albert Durksen (1990- ).

Scope and content note

This fonds consists of bulletins, annual reports, minutes, directories, constitutions, and registers which pertain to the beginning and development of the Mennonite congregation in North Kildonan, Manitoba. It documents the leaders and participants. The fonds contains membership, baptismal, marriage, and family registers (1929-1979), congregational constitutions (1976-1996), congregational bulletins (1963-1965, 1968-1974, 1976-1979, 1982-1992, 1994-2016), annual reports (1975-2000), congregational meeting minutes (1976-2000), congregational board meeting minutes (1976-1979), directories (1969-1997), and a funeral aid society constitution (1969).

Finding aids

Inventory file list available.

Notes

Language

Some German.

Restrictions on access

No restrictions on access.

Other notes

Textual records were microfilmed by the Mennonite Heritage Centre in 1980. The congregation has made regular deposists of textual records. Described by Bert Friesen 14 December 2001; updated by Selenna Wolfe 22 February 2019. 

North Kildonan Mennonite Church fonds file list:

Volume 48

  1. North Kildonan Mennonite Church constitution (1976)
  2. North Kildonan Mennonite Church annual reports (1975-1977), congregational meeting minutes (1978)
  3. North Kildonan Mennonite Church board/council meeting minutes (1976-1978)
  4. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1963)
  5. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1964)
  6. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1965)
  7. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1968)
  8. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1969)
  9. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1970)
  10. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1971)
  11. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1972)
  12. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1973)
  13. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1974)
  14. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1976)
  15. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1977)
  16. North Kildonan Mennonite Church directories (1969-1978)

Volume 1615

  1. North Kildonan Mennonite Church pictorial directory (1971)
  2. North Kildonan Funeral Aid Society of the Mennonite and German settlers of Manitoba constitution and bylaws (1969)
  3. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1978)
  4. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1979)
  5. North Kildonan Mennonite Church miscellaneous correspondence (1978-1979)
  6. North Kildonan Mennonite Church financial statements (1978)
  7. North Kildonan Mennonite Church board meeting minutes (1978-1979)
  8. North Kildonan Mennonite Church congregational meeting minutes (1978-1979)

Volume 2409

  1. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1982); pictoral directory (1981) 
  2. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1983)
  3. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1984), directory (1984)
  4. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1985), annual reports (1985), directory (1985)
  5. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1986), annual reports (1986), congregational meeting minutes (1986)
  6. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1987), annual reports (1987), congregational meeting minutes (1987), library newsletter (1987)

Volume 2655

  1. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1988), annual reports (1988), congregational meeting minutes (1988), building plan proposal ([198-?]), changes to the constitution ([198-?]), directory (1988)
  2. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1989), annual reports (1989), congregational meeting minutes (1989), directory (1989), invitation to installation of Rick Neufeld (1989)
  3. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1990), annual reports (1990), congregational meeting minutes (1990), calendar of activities (1990)
  4. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1991), annual reports (1991), congregational meeting minutes (1991), calendar of activities (1991)

Volume 3917

  1. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1992), calendar of activities (1992), directory (1992)
  2. North Kildonan Mennonite Church annual reports (1993)
  3. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1994), annual reports (1994), congregational meeting minutes (1994), directory (1994)

Volume 4448

  1. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1995), annual reports (1995)
  2. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1996), annual reports (1996), congregational meeting minutes (1996), congregational constitution (1996), directory (1996)
  3. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1997), annual reports (1997), congregational meeting minutes (1997), directory (1997)
  4. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1998), annual reports (1998), congregational meeting minutes (1998)
  5. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (1999), annual reports (1999), congregational meeting minutes (1999)

Volume 4927

  1. North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (2000), annual reports (2000), congregational meeting minutes (2000)
  2. North Kildonan Mennonite church bulletins (2001)
  3. North Kildonan Mennonite church bulletins (2002)
  4. North Kildonan Mennonite church bulletins (2003), directory (2003)

     5.  North Kildonan Mennonite church bulletins (2004)

     6.  Winnipeg Cooks Together: A Handbook for Community Kitchens (2003); NKMC Community Kitchen Proposal; Food Security In Winnipeg List of Participants; Picnic record (2003), NKMC Cooking Club advertisment; What's Cooking? Newsletter (Fall 2001, Spr/Sum 2002, Fal/Win 2003)

Volume 2142

1.  North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (2005)

2.  North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (2006)

3.  North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (2007), directory (2008)

4.  North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (2008)

5.  North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (2009); 2010 directory

6.  North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (2010)

Volume 5577

1.  North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (2011); 2011 telephone & address directory

2.  North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (2012); 2013 telephone & address directory

3.  North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (2013); 2014 Telephone & Address Directory

4.  North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins  (2014)

Volume 6294

1.  North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (2015); 2015 Telephone and Address Directory
2.  North Kildonan Mennonite Church bulletins (2016); 2016 Telephone and Address Directory

Microfilm

(MHC Project No. 52; MHC Microfilm no. 204)

Microfilm 204

  1. Church membership list. -- 1964-1978.
  2. Baptismal register. -- 1957-1978.
  3. Family register. -- 1928-1980.
  4. Marriage register. -- 1956-1979.