Classification scheme:
Hist.Mss.1.278 (s.c.)
Title: Elias B. Brubacher fonds
Dates of creation: 1941
Physical description: 2 pages of textual records
Biographical sketch: Elias B. Brubacher (1918-1996) grew up in the Elmira area. After a grade 8 education, he worked as a hired hand and later as a carpenter. He was baptized into the Old Order Mennonite Church, but joined Elmira Mennonite Church a few years later. He married Elizabeth Knarr in 1944; the couple had 2 children. During the Second World War, Brubacher was a conscientious objector, serving in Alternative Service at the Montreal River camp (1941) and later in British Columbia.
Custodial history: Donated to the Archives by daughter Gladys Brubacher.
Scope and content: Two postcards written to Elias Brubacher while he was in Alternative Service at the Montreal River camp near Sault Ste. Marie.
Notes: For photographs related to Elias Brubacher search the Mennonite Archival Image Database.
An oral history interview with Elias Brubacher is located in Hist.Mss.22.1/4.
Original archival description created 2015 by Laureen Harder-Gissing.
File list:
- Sylvester Brubacher (brother) to Elias Brubacher, 15 Aug 1941, postcard of the Grand River at Brantford
- Lovina (cousin) to Elias Brubacher, 27 Aug 1941, postcard of the library and post office in Elmira