Harvey Taves files

Title: Series 15: Harvey Taves files 
(Series forms part of the Mennonite Central Committee Ontario fonds)

Dates of creation: 1957-1965

Physical description: textual materials

Administrative history: Harvey Taves served as director of Mennonite Central Committee’s Canadian office from 1953 to 1964, and director of MCC Ontario from 1964 to his death in 1965.

Custodial history: This series is part of a transfer of records from Mennonite Central Committee Ontario in the early 1980s.

Notes: Related photographs can be located through the Mennonite Archival Image Database.

File list:

Box 1 - General Correspondence

1. Correspondence, 1957-58
2. Correspondence, 1959
3. Correspondence, 1960-62 
4. Correspondence, 1963-65
5. Correspondence with Orie Miller, 1959
6. Correspondence with Wm. T. Snyder, 1958-59
7. Correspondence with Wm. T. Snyder, 1960
8. Correspondence with Wm. T. Snyder, 1961-63
9. Dorothy Schwartzentruber Correspondence

Box 2 - Financial Accounts

1. Financial Correspondence and Receipts, 1963-64
2. Income Tax Correspondence and Receipts, 1961-63
3. Correspondence re: Kent St. Building, 1962-63
4. Correspondence re: Kent St. Building, 1964
5. Receipts for Donations, 1962-63 
6. Correspondence with Dept. of Revenue, 1960-64
7. MCC (Waterloo Office) Financial Statements
8. MCC (Waterloo Office) Clothing Reports

Box 3 - Correspondence re: Ontario Mennonite Institutions

1. Ailsa Craig, 1958-61
2. Ailsa Craig, 1962
3. Amish Mennonites, 1957-64
4. Historic Peace Church Council of Canada, 1959-64
5. MCC (Ontario) Incorporation, 1957-60
6. MCC (Ontario) Reorganization, 1964
7. Non-Resistant Relief Organization, 1957-64
8. Old Colony Mennonites, 1958-64.
9. Ontario Mennonite Conference, 1959-63
10. Peace Booth, 1962-64
11. Peace, Social and Economic Relations Committee, 1961-64
12. Rockway Mennonite School, 1963
13. Northern Light Gospel Mission
14. Conference of the United Mennonite Churches of Ontario

Box 4 - Canadian Mennonite Institutions

1. Association of Mennonite University Students
2. The Canadian Mennonite
3. Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization 
4. Canadian Mennonite Relief Committee Minutes and Reports
5. Canadian Mennonite Relief Committee Correspondence
6. Correspondence re: MCC (Canada)Organization, 1962-64
7. MCC (Canada) General Correspondence 1964
8. Mennonite Central Relief Committee Correspondence
9. Mennonite Disaster Service Correspondence 
10. Conference of Mennonites in Canada Correspondence

Box 5 - MCC Service Programs in Canada

1. Newspaper Releases
2. Correspondence re: Nova Scotia Project 
3. Summer Service Correspondence 
4. Summer Service Discussion Guidebook 
5. Summer Service Unit Leader's Handbook 
6. Photos of Persons in Ontario and Manitoba Voluntary Service Units, 1955 and 1959
7. Correspondence re: Trainees, 1959-64
8. Correspondence re: Voluntary Service 
9. Correspondence re: Teachers Abroad Program
10. Correspondence re: Need for and Placement of Nurses
11. Correspondence re: Week-End Work Camps
12. Correspondence re: Native Affairs

Box 6 - Correspondence re: MCC Programs - International

1. Correspondence, Minutes and Reports re: "Consultation on Relief, Service and Missions Relationships Overseas, May 7-8, 1964"
2. Haiti
3. MCC (Akron) Information Services 
4. Menno Travel Service 
5. Mennonite Mental Health Services 
6. Mennonite Voluntary Service 
7. Paraguay
8. MCC (Akron) Peace Section
9. Viet Nam Prisoners
10 Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities
11 General Conference Mennonite Church Board of Christian Service

Box 7 - Correspondence re: Personnel

1. MCC (Akron) Personnel Office 1959 
2. MCC (Akron) Personnel Office 1960-64
3. Dwight Wiebe (VS and IW Director) 1958-59
4. Dwight Wiebe (VS and IW Director) 1960
5. Edgar Stoesz (VS Director) 1958-60 
6. Edgar Stoesz (VS Director) 1963-64

Box 8 - Oversees Relief

1. MCC (Ontario) Clothing Shipments: Receipts, Bills of Lading and Correspondence, 1957-64
2. MCC (Ontario) Food Shipments: Receipts, Bills of Lading and Correspondence, 1959-64
3. MCC (Ontario) Clothing Drive, 1959
4. Correspondence with Bob Miller (Foreing Relief Administrator) 1959-64
5. Correspondence with John Hostetler (Material Aid Administrator) 1960 
6. Correspondence with Willis Detweiler (Assistant Treasurer)1959
7. Correspondence with Willis Detweiler (Assistant Treasurer) 1960
8. Correspondence re: Wheat for China Program, 1961

Box 9 - Correspondence re: Non-Mennonite Institutions

1. Canadian Council of Churches: Reports,Minutes and Correspondence regarding "Consultation On Indian Work, April 28-29, 1964"
2. Canadian Friends Service Committee 
3. Dept. of External Affairs, Canada
4. Harbour Rescue Mission, Hamilton, Ont. 
5. Indian-Eskimo Association of Canada 
6. Latin America Literature 
7. National Service Board of Religious
Objectors
8. Peace Literature 
9. Quakers
10. Refugee Council., Kitchener-Waterloo 
11. Student Christian Movement 
12. World Food Congress

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