© Mennonite Heritage Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba (Last updated 18 April 2011)
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.
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).
Box file list
Mennonites in Mexico fonds. Old Colony Mennonite Church fonds. Johann Wall fonds.
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.
material is all in German gothic handwriting.
Described by Conrad Stoesz September 13, 1999. Reviewed and revised by Alf Redekopp, Oct. 2006.
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VOLUME 1091
REINLAND (MANITOBA W.R.) VILLAGE PAPERS
- Theilungs-Verordnungen - Reinland
- Dorfsbuch (Village & Colony documents) - 1875 <>liDorfsbuch (Village & Colony documents) - 1876
- Dorfsbuch (Village & Colony documents) - 1877
- Dorfsbuch (Village & Colony documents) - 1878
- Dorfsbuch (Village & Colony documents) - 1879
- Dorfsbuch (Village & Colony documents) - 1880
- Dorfsbuch (Village & Colony documents) - 1881
- Dorfsbuch (Village & Colony documents) - 1883-84
- Dorfsbuch (Village & Colony documents) - 1888-1901
- Befehlbuch (Village & Colony documents) - 1915-17
- Bekanntmachungen (Village & Colony documents) - 1917-18
- Miscellaneous papers 1879-1907 (including statistical summaries - 1881-1904)
- Miscellaneous papers
VOLUME 1092
REINLAND (MANITOBA W.R.) VILLAGE ORGANIZATION
- Account Book (Zeichenbuch)-1877
- Dorfsbuch-1878
- Zechenbuch
- Record of payments to (by) individuals - 1881
- Dorfsbuch-1882
- Title page of Zeichenbuch-1883
- Dorfsbuch - 1885
- Dorfsbuch - 1885-87
- Dorfsbuch - 1886
- Dorfsbuch - 1887
- Dorfsbuch - 1888
- Dorfsbuch - 1889
- Dorfsbuch - 1890 (Bernhard Rempel)
- Dorfsbuch - 1891 (Peter Letkemann)
- Dorfsbuch - 1893
- Dorfsbuch - 1894 (Municipal Works)
- Dorfsbuch - 1897 (Isaak Dyck)
- Dorfsbuch - 1898
- Dorfsbuch - 1899 (Abraham Rempel)
- Dorfsbuch - 1900 (Abraham Rempel)
- Dorfsbuch - 1901 (Johann Fehr)
- Dorfsbuch - 1902
- Dorfsbuch - 1903 (Isaak Dyck)
- Dorfsbuch - 1904
- Dorfsbuch - 1905-06
- Dorfsbuch - 1906-07
- Dorfsbuch - 1907-08
- Accounts - 1909
- Record re: building school - 1910
- Dorfsbuch - 1911
- Dorfsbuch - 1912
VOLUME 1093
REINLAND (MANITOBA W.R.) VILLAGE ORGANIZATION
- Dorfsbuch - 1913
- Dorfsbuch - 1914
- Dorfsbuch - 1915
- Dorfsbuch - 1916
- Dorfsbuch - 1917
- Dorfsbuch - 1919-20
- Dorfsbuch - 1921
- Dorfsbuch - 1922
- Dorfsbuch - 1923
- Dorfsbuch - 1925
- Zechenbuch - 1926
- Dorfsbuch - 1927
- Dorfsbuch - 1932
- Dorfsbuch - 1933-34 (Jakob Ens)
- Dorfsbuch - 1935
- Dorfsbuch - 1936
- Dorfsbuch - (undated)
- Hirten Kontrakte
- Miscellaneous papers
- Miscellaneous papers