Elizabeth Wiebe Unger

Title: Elizabeth Wiebe Unger fonds

Dates of creation: 1974 (photocopy)

Physical description​: 6 pages of textual records

Biographical sketch: Elizabeth Wiebe was born in Alexanderheim, Wiesenfeld, South Russia on February 16, 1899. She married Peter K. Unger in 1920 in Klinok, Neu Samara. The couple had 11 children. The family immigrated to Canada in 1925. Peter Unger died in Aberdeen, Saskatchewan in 1937. Elizabeth died in St. Catharines, Ontario in 1998.

Custodial history: Photocopied by the Mennonite Archives of Ontario, late 1970s.

Scope and content: The fonds is a typescript of her story as written by Helen Reimer Bergmann in 1974.

Notes: Original archival description created  by Sam Steiner and updated 2024 by Laureen Harder-Gissing