Village News

The Manitoba Chambers of Commerce is providing a 50% rebate on several hotels and museums (including the Mennonite Heritage Village – MHV) until May 16th.

What is the price you would pay for your freedom of belief? Throughout Mennonite history, this question was answered hundreds of thousands of times by individuals who faced it – in very real ways.

At the Mennonite Heritage Village (MHV), we believe that the identity of any group is inextricably connected to their relationships.

One of our specialties at Mennonite Heritage Village (MHV) is knowing how to weather well. Our thirty plus heritage buildings and monuments need constant care.

The concept of sponsorship as we know it originates from the Greco-Roman world when Roman elites would sponsor sporting events (such as the gladiator games) to garner public affection for themselves and their syndicates.

In the 1920s, nearly 8,000 Mennonites left Canada for Latin America in search of a new home that would give them what Canada no longer would, including control of their own schools.

I want to introduce you to Mennonite Heritage Village’s (MHV) new Development Specialist and Development Coordinator, Melissa Kerr and Kaelyn Nickel.

Last Sunday 50 people gathered to pray for Ukraine near a Mennonite Heritage Village (MHV) monument built to remember the suffering and deaths our ancestors endured in that same land a hundred years ago.

Anyone else noticing how some of the major events of the past couple years also happened 100 years ago?

Exactly one hundred years and two days ago, the first train load of Mennonites gathered in Manitoba and Saskatchewan to leave Canada for new homes in northern Mexico.