Village News

These three words have at least three things in common at Mennonite Heritage Village. They are all old farm implements in our machinery collection.

Many years ago, the chairperson of my church’s finance committee told our gathered membership that he had not purchased new shoes for his presentation of the proposed new budget, but he had at least polished them.

About once a year, the curatorial department at Mennonite Heritage Village devotes a week or two to one of our favourite parts of our job: cleaning. No, I’m not kidding.

While not everything we did at Mennonite Heritage Village in 2018 went according to plan, we had numerous highlights in various areas of our work.

Time passed by until one crisp wintery day near Christmas in 1957 young Larry Almon and his sister Rebecca Ann, living in Steinbach, took their toboggan and walked to Bush Farm where their grandparents, John C. Reimers, now lived. John C.

The winter winds of 1885 blew cold over the Manitoba prairie, Klass Reimer hurried into his little store on Main Street situated just east of the present corner of Reimer and Main Streets in Steinbach. This was Steinbach’s first store.

The Mennonite Historical Society of Canada (MHSC) held its annual meeting on November 15, 2018, at the Mennonite Heritage Archives in Winnipeg.

Mennonite Heritage Village (MHV) recently accepted a new Mennonite-made wall clock and a batch of family immigration documents into our artefact collection.

When I was a child, I was very excited to learn to read. It was amazing that letters formed words when put together! Words put in order made sentences. I loved books and read and reread our few books.

When two individuals or organizations have a productive partnership, they likely achieve more than the sum total of their individual contributions.