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The archives collects, preserves, and makes available the recorded experience of Mennonites, Amish, and other related groups in Ontario. Our growing collection consists of nearly a thousand linear meters of personal, congregational, and institutional records in a multitude of formats.

The archives is the official repository for Conrad Grebel University College, Mennonite Central Committee (Ontario), Mennonite Church Eastern Canada, Conscience Canada and Christian Peacemaker Teams (Canada). Other Mennonite institutions, organizations, families and individuals also have collections here. In particular, the Archives serves as a repository and a resource for Mennonite Church Eastern Canada congregations.

You will notice that unlike library collections which are organized by subject or author, archival records are usually organized by the creator (individual or group) that generated them.

Note that although we are making progress, not all our collections have full descriptions online. Contact the archivist for more information.

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The following are our largest record groups:

Archives Collections Summary:

The following is a list of all of our record groups. They are divided into two types: historical manuscript collections (primarily non-organizational records) and archival collections (primarily organizational records).

Historical Manuscript collections

  1. Personal collections

  2. Genealogical manuscripts

  3. News clippings

  4. Scrapbooks and Autograph books

  5. Cemetery records

  6. Missionary letters

  7. Biographies

  8. Maps and charts

  9. Sound recordings

  10. Slide sets and photographs

  11. Microfilms

  12. Local histories

  13. Student papers

  14. Academic papers (unpublished)

  15. Letter collections (correspondence)

  16. Interview transcriptions

  17. Diaries

  18. Bibliographies (unpublished)

  19. Architectural Drawings

  20. Sound recordings (CD/Digital)

  21. Legal documents

  22. Oral history projects

  23. Visual Arts

  24. Pennsylvania German folk life & language materials

  25. Singing school materials

  26. Video Recordings (VHS, DVD, etc.)

  27. Electronic Manuscripts
  28. Christian Education pictorial materials

Archival Collections

I. Mennonite Church (MC or "Old" Mennonites)

II. Mennonite Conference of Ontario (& Quebec)(MCOQ)

III. MCOQ Congregations

IV. Western Ontario Mennonite Conference (Ontario Amish Mennonite Conference)

V. Western Ontario Mennonite Conference Congregations

VI. Other Canadian Mennonite Church Congregations

VII. Conservative Mennonite Conferences

VII.1 Conservative Mennonite Conference

VII.2 Midwest Mennonite Fellowship

VII.2.1 Countryside Mennonite Church

VII.3 New Hamburg Conservative Mennonite Church

VIII.1 Old Order Mennonites

VIII.2 Markham-Waterloo Mennonite Conference

VIII.3 Orthodox Mennonite Church

VIII.4 Daniel Brubacher Group

IX. Old Order Amish

IX-1. Beachy Amish Mennonites

IX-2. Amish Mennonite congregations (variously affiliated)

X. General Conference Mennonite Church

XI. General Conference Mennonite Church District Conferences in U.S.

XII. Conference of Mennonites in Canada

XIII.1 Conference of the United Mennonite Churches of Ontario

XIII.2 Conference of the United Mennonite Churches of Ontario congregations

XIV.1 Mennonite Central Committee

XIV.2 Mennonite Central Committee Canada

XIV.3 Mennonite Central Committee Ontario

XV. Mennonite Organizations and Institutions

XVI. Brethren in Christ Church

XVII. Mennonite Brethren Church

XVIII. Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church (New Mennonites, Reforming/Reformed Mennonites, United Mennonite Church)

XIX-1. Hutterite Brethren

XIX-2. Community Farm of the Brethren

XX. Low German Mennonites

XXI. Krimmer Mennonite Brethren

XXII. Evangelical Mennonite Missionary Church

XXIII. Evangelical Mennonite Brethren

XXIV. Evangelical Mennonite Conference

XXV. Cultural and Genealogical Organizations

XXV.1 Pennsylvania German Folklore Society of Ontario

XXVI.Conrad Grebel University College

XXVII. House Churches (Moved to III-67)

XXVIII. Inter-Mennonite Conference (Ontario)

XXIX. Mennonite Church Eastern Canada (MCEC) (Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada)

XXX. MCEC Congregations

XXXI. Mennonite Church Canada

XXXII. Reformed Mennonite Church

L. South American Mennonites

C. Prussian Mennonites

D. Russian Mennonites

M. European Mennonites

MD. Asian Mennonites

MM. Australian Mennonites