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Mennonite Archives of OntarioConrad Grebel University College
140 Westmount Road North
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G6
Phone: 519-885-0220 x24238
Dates of creation: 1812-1991
Physical description: 13 cm of textual records
Biographical sketch: Henry B. Pauls was born in Chortitza, Russia, on 28 Sept 1904 to Bernhard and Helena (Epp) Pauls. He is a descendant of Jacob Hoppner (deputized to survey lands in Russia for Mennonite settlement) and David Epp (signator to the 1800 charter of privileges). He emigrated to Canada with his parents in 1923, living first at Hanley and Sonningdale, Saskatchewan, and second in Leamington, Ontario. He farmed for a living. On 1 July 1937 he married Sara Hildebrandt. They had six children.
In 1974 Pauls began painting his childhood memories of Russia. Forty of these paintings, created between 1974 and 1989, are reproduced in colour in Hildi Froese Tiessen and Paul Gerard Tiessen, eds. A Sunday Afternoon: Paintings by Henry Pauls (Waterloo: Institute of Anabaptist-Mennonite Studies and Sand Hills Books, 1991). Henry B. Pauls donated 25 paintings, and copyright thereto, to Conrad Grebel University College on 28 April 1992. Pauls died 5 May 1995 in Leamington, Ontario.
Custodial history: Donations of materials came from Henry B. Pauls during his lifetime, and from the records of Conrad Grebel University College. The children of Henry B. Pauls donated subsequent materials in 2014; these materials were received from Henry Pauls, Jr.
Scope and content: The fonds consists of scrapbooks, correspondence, immigration documents, inventory lists, donation records, and other records of the Pauls family.
Notes: Original archival description by Sam Steiner in 2007; updated by Laureen Harder-Gissing in 2015.
Pauls' paintings are classified separately as part of the Conrad Grebel University College art collection (XXVI-27.3).
Search for photographs relating to this fonds in the Mennonite Archival Image Database.
Published books donated by the Pauls family are held in the Milton Good Library collection.
Further background on family members can be found in the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online.
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Conrad Grebel University College
140 Westmount Road North
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G6
519-885-0220
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