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Mennonite Heritage Portrait
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The concept of "the meeting place" has long been at the heart of communication, education and cooperation among the groups known ...
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Mennonites and Milling in Waterloo RegionEarly enterprise Sawmill in Roseville, North Dumfries Township1Sawmills and grist mills were some of the first structures built by the Mennonites settling in the area that would become Waterloo Region, and also were often the first commercial and industrial enterprises established as new areas opened to settlement. The Mennonite settlers were farmers, but after houses and a few outbuildings had been built on their fledgling homesteads, some landholders on the best waterpower sites set up milling operations beginning in the first decades of the nineteenth century. A small portion of the timber cleared in homesteading was processed into lumber at the sawmills, and grain from the new farms wa...
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Recent Additions
Mill Street Neighbourhood Steinbach: Childhood on an old Steinbach street is remembered by a diverse c...
Thursday 22 September, 2011; 6:29 pm
Abraham H. Wiebe (1892 - 1979): The "Light from Bergfeld"
Monday 12 September, 2011; 4:07 pm
Jacob "Berliner" Kehler (1863 - 1923) and Elizabeth (Schultz) Kehler (1866 -1943): A colorful, dynamic...
Thursday 08 September, 2011; 12:51 pm
John C. Reimer, aged 17, 1911: An early picture of "the father" of the Mennonite Heritage Village in S...
Wednesday 10 August, 2011; 4:33 pm
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