Village News

A couple weeks ago, we explored how war, violence, and the threat of military participation shaped the first three waves of Mennonite migration to Canada.

With the advent of fast and easy food we have lost the art of preparing and eating food. What was meant to be restful and nourishing to our bodies and souls has become merely utilitarian.

Mennonite Heritage Village’s (MHV) upcoming exhibit “Mennonites at War” explores various responses Mennonites have had toward war and violence over their five-hundred-year history.

Stores were unusual in the early Manitoba Mennonite villages and yet it was Steinbach’s first store that became the Mennonite Heritage Village’s first building.

There is a lot happening at the Mennonite Heritage Village. Besides the busyness of preparing for a new season of events, exhibits and welcoming guests on our grounds in a safe way, we have also received several grants.

The Mennonite Heritage Village is excited to be collaborating with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in April, which is Genocide Remembrance, Condemnation and Prevention month in Canada.

I love working at the Mennonite Heritage Village (MHV). The heritage buildings, the artefacts, the stories, the grounds and of course the people – I love it all. However, my career in history and culture began forty years ago as a child in a farmyard.

Some museums are a single building, but at the Mennonite Heritage Village (MHV) we have over 30 buildings and monuments.

Like hundreds, maybe thousands of you, I was hiking in the Whiteshell Provincial Park this past weekend in March.

How do you plan on getting the younger generations involved and interested in the Mennonite Heritage Village (MHV)?