History online

• Epp, Frank H., Mennonites in Canada, 1786-1920: The History of a Separate People 

• Epp, Frank H., Mennonites in Canada, 1920-1940: A People's Struggle for Survival 

• Eby, Benjamin. Die Gemeinschaftliche Liedersammlung 

• The Canadian Mennonite, 1953-1971 (index only) 

• Mennonite Reporter, 1971-1997 (index only) 

• Newsletters of Canadians in Alternative Service, 1942-1945 

  • Includes digitized copies of The Northern Beacon, The Beacon, and Canadian C.O. 

Our collection of over 20,000 photographs is searchable online through the  Mennonite Archival Information Database  (MAID).  Digital copies of many of these photographs can be ordered and purchased directly from MAID.   

• Russlaender Immigrants to Ontario: Sources and Stories 

  • This site commemorates the arrival of Russlaender Mennonite immigrants from the Soviet Union to Ontario beginning in 1924. Their stories are told here through church records, oral history interviews and more, preserved in the collections of the Mennonite Archives of Ontario. 

• Ontario Mennonites and the First World War

  • Files in the Mennonite Archives of Ontario that relate directly to the activities of Ontario Mennonites and other peace churches during the First World War. 

• Past exhibits. The following past Mennonite Archives of Ontario exhibits have been recreated in digital form:  

  • Conchies Speak: Ontario Mennonites in Alternative Service, 1941-1946  

  • Sites of Nonresistance: Ontario Mennonites and the First World War  

  • Growing Family: Design & Desire in Mennonite Genealogy 

• Oral history projects. Many of the audio interviews in Hist.Mss.22 - Oral History Projects have been digitized; see the listing for details. Due to file size, they have not been posted online. Contact the archives to obtain a digitized interview. If an interview has not been digitized, we may be able to do this work for a fee.

Numerous individual digitized records can be found within our archival descriptions.

Over the years, the Archives has digitized additional files that have not been posted due to various reasons, such as privacy concerns or file size. To inquire about access or request scans of materials, contact us.