Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches

1925–1990.
2.5 m of textual records.

Administrative history

The Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches was founded in 1932 in New Hamburg. Mennonites arrived in southern Ontario from Russia beginning in 1924. These Russian immigrants worshiped with their host Mennonite families, mainly in the Waterloo County area. However, language and cultural differences, and their growing numbers led them to worship separately from their hosts. Again, differences brought with them from their Russian church divisions, eventually led them to form different worship groupings, one of these being the Mennonite Brethren. By the time of the founding of the conference, Mennonite Brethren congregations had been formed in New Hamburg, Hespeler, Kitchener, Vineland, and Leamington. These were joined by Port Rowan (1933), Virgil (1937), and St. Catharines (1943). From these beginnings the conference has become involved in many areas of church work.

The emphasis on missions began nearly at the beginning. The congregations wanted to serve in their communities. In 1944 the work began in particular to reach out to children with Bible schools for them. These were begun that year in the Vineland and Virgil areas. Over the next twenty years this expanded to many parts of southern Ontario. From this effort also began the work to establish new congregations, the first being in the Coldwater area in 1951. Later other congregations were begun in many parts of the province including the major urban areas around Toronto and Hamilton. Others were in the more rural areas of the province and these were generally more stable and had more potential for growth in the years up to the 1980s. The work in Toronto and Hamilton remained unstable but the expansion of congregations in Kitchener/Waterloo and St. Catharines continued apace. Other missions efforts were begun in Ottawa, London, west of Sudbury, and Windsor. Women’s missionary conventions were also organized in the 1960s to give a forum for women to discuss and contribute to missions, with the emphasis on foreign missions.

Education was a major effort of the conference. A Bible school was begun in Virgil in 1938 and a Bible School society was formed in 1939 with Vineland. It started as an evening school and became a day school in 1943 in Niagara-on-the-Lake. With the purchase of a property in Niagara-on-the-Lake in 1944 a high school was added in 1945. In 1948 the conference took over the society work in both the high school and Bible school. The Bible school remained on this property with the high school until 1955 when it moved to the Kitchener MB Church education building. The Bible school was discontinued in 1965. There were also student services offered to university students at many universities in southern Ontario.

The high school was renamed Eden Christian College after the Bible school programme was moved to Kitchener. The course offerings and facilities expanded over the years. For a number of years both the 4-year and 5-year streams were offered. In some subject areas a student could complete their grade 13 requirements. The core emphasis of Christian values in a Mennonite context were maintained.

Camping is a major effort which began with children at the high school and Bible school in Niagara-on-the-Lake. From there it expanded to various rented facilities when all the children could no longer be accommodated in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Finally a new camp property was purchased in 1980 which has been developed for camping and other conference retreat needs.

Vacation Bible School was an early programme of outreach to the community. Soon after WWII programmes were begun in the communities immediately in the proximity of the MB congregations. It then expanded over the years to both rural and urban areas. It was an outlet for the youth of the congregations to get involved in an important mission of the church.

Youth had other programmes for them. Conventions and symposia were held on pertinent topics. With the number of students increasing and staying students for a longer period of time a student services work was begun in the late 1960s. The majority of these students were in secular universities. Newsletters were published and meetings were held to provide support and forums for discussion and understanding of the issues facing these students.

Sunday school and music programmes were carried on throughout the Ontario conference history. Both local endeavours and provincial ‘fests’ and symposia were held to foster efforts in Christian education and the fine arts.

Senior citizen housing and institutional care was a programme of the conference begun in the 1960s. The site was next to one of the congregations in St. Catharines. It started as a small facility and expanded to offer beds for a spectrum of needs. Plans also called for additional facilities in Virgil and Kitchener. Tabor Manor is now a well established institution in Ontario governed by the conference.

Bethesda Home was begun by the Wiebe couple from Vineland who had worked in a similar institution already in Russia in the Mennonite colonies there. They began in a private effort that was eventually taken over by the conference. It has expanded to have a large staff and over 100 residents with major government support and regulation. It has been an institution both under the Canadian conference and the Ontario conference. It was founded as a private institution in 1932, then was taken over by the Ontario conference in 1937, and in 1947 it was transferred to the Canadian conference. In 1983 it was transferred back to the Ontario conference.

Scope and content

This fonds consists of yearbooks (1925–2001), minutes (1925–1990), statement of faith (1925–1975), incorporation, constitution, and bylaw materials (1931–1981), reports (1925–1990), position papers (1935–1980), financial records (1935–1981), correspondence (1930–1984), a brief history (1979–1980), statistics (1953–1969), newspaper clippings/newsletters (1960–1988), directories (1932–1977), assorted promotional literature (1942–1977), and programmes (1958–1978) which pertain to the founding and development of the Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches. It documents the leaders and participants in the conference.

Custodial History

Records were transferred to the Centre for MB Studies archives in Winnipeg, Manitoba on a regular basis.

Notes

Finding aid consists of a series description and a file list is available.
Finding aid: The records are classified under the Ontario Conference of MB Churches inventory BD-100–BD-400.
Described by Bert Friesen 27 June 2002.
No restrictions on access.
Language: Some German.

Series description

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches convention yearbooks and minute books.
1925–2001.
1 m of textual records.

This series consists of convention yearbooks (1942–2001), convention minutes and reports in typescript transcription (1925–1941).

This series is located with the centre’s yearbook collection for the yearbooks and in Box 1, files 1, 2, 4, and 21 for the typescript copies of the years (1925–1941).

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches brief history.
1979, 2000.
0.1 cm of textual records.

This series consists of a brief conference history published in the Canadian conference periodical (1979). There is an update millenium booklet published with brief congregational histories (2000).

This series is located in Box 1, files 3 and 9.

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches convention materials.
1939–2000.
10 cm of textual records.

This series consists of convention minutes, financial statements, reports, statistics, annual reports, convention planning materials, and a summary millennium booklet.

This series is located in Box 1, files 4, 7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 19, Box 3, file 26.

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches constitutions.
1932–1979.
4 cm of textual records.

This series consists of conference constitutions and bylaws and various proposed documents as these were developed. Included in various other files are proposed constitutions for other conference entities such as schools and Tabor Manor.

This series is located in Box 1, files 1, 2, 10, 11, 14; Box 3, files 19; Box 4, file 20, 21.

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Executive Committee records.
1944–1981.
2.5 cm of textual records.

This series consists of minutes, reports, and correspondence of the executive committee of the Ontario conference.

This series is located in Box 1, files 12, 18, 20; Box 3, file 1, 2.

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Committee of Reference and Counsel records.
1937–1981.
15 cm of textual records.

This series consists of minutes, correspondence, and reports of the Fürsorgekomitee, the committee of reference and counsel, and Board of Spiritual and Social concerns. The name changes reflect changes in language and mandate in the 1960s and late 1970s.

This series is located in Box 2, files 1–7; Box 3, files 1–6, 8, 9; Box 9, file 7.

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Board of Trustees records.
1972–1981.
3 cm of textual records.

This series consists of minutes, reports, correspondence, salary commission records, stewardship commission records, and financial statements.

This series is located in Box 3, file 11, 12, Box 1, file 15, Box 4, file 25, Box 8, file 5.

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Board of Christian Education records.
1936–1982.
12 cm of textual records.

This series consists of minutes, correspondence, study papers, brochures, study conference and convention materials, reports, correspondence, and financial records.

This series is located in Box 3, file 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 28.

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches youth materials.
1955–1970.
9 cm of textual records.

This series consists of youth leadership and activity materials, minutes, reports, financial records, correspondence, and survey materials.

This series is located in Box 3, 14, 20, 21, 22.

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches missions materials.
1930–1938, 1951–1987.
20 cm of textual records.

This series consists of planning materials, pastoral care commission materials, early years missions materials, minutes, policies, mission church materials, missions financial records, and correspondence. The body overseeing missions was first the missions committee, then the board of church extension.

This series is located in Box 1, files 5, 6, Box 3, files 7, 10, 27, Box 4, file 18, Box 7, files 13–19.

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Tabor Manor records.
1967–1990.
25 cm of textual records.

This series consists of constitutions, minutes, correspondence, reports, and financial records.

This series is located in Box 4, files 1–13, 18–19

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Ministers and Deacons records.
1933–1980.
7 cm of textual records.

This series consists of position papers, minutes, and reports.

This series is located in Box 4, files 14–17.

Inter-Mennonite organizations records.
1956–1967.
7 cm of textual records.

This series consists of records from the Non-Resistant Relief Organization, Conference of Historic Peace Churches, Peace and Christian Service Conference, Mennonite Board of Missions, Mennonite Brethren Peace Conference, Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario, Mennonite Disaster Service, and Mennonite Central Committee.

This series is located in Box 4, files 22 and 23.
Mennonite Brethren Conference Statistics.
1957.
1 cm of textual records.

This series consists of provincial Mennonite Brethren conference statistics for Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia.

This series is located in Box 4, file 24.

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Vacation Bible School records.
1945–1975.
90 cm of textual records.

This series consists of reports, statistics, service applications and records, training materials, teaching materials, correspondence, surveys, financial records, and directories.

This series is located in Box 5, files 1–37, Box 6, files 1–32, Box 7, files 1–5.

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Education Committee records.
1938–1970.
10 cm of textual records.

This series consists of a paper on religious education in the public school system and on the formation of a Bible school, minutes, correspondence, reports, bylaws, financial records, directories, and survey materials.

This series is located in Box 7, files 6–12, Box 9, files 1–4, 24. 25.

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Council of Boards records.
1971–1981.
7 cm of textual records.

This series consists of minutes, reports, correspondence, financial records, and position papers on church membership, draft evaders, feeding the world’s hungry, Christian and government, evolution, nonresistance.

This series is located in Box 8, files 1–4, 6.

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Church camping ministries records.
1971–1981.
4 cm of textual records.

This series consists of minutes, reports, bylaws, and financial records.

This series is located in Box 3, files 5, 24.

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Church Music Committee records.
1963–1969.
3 cm of textual records.

This series consists of correspondence and minutes.

This series is located in Box 3, file 25, Box 4, file 19.

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Church Eden committee records.
1946–1981.
25 cm of textual records.

This series consists of school registers, minutes, correspondence, financial records, regulations, reports, policies, surveys, programmes, constitutions.

This series is located in Box 1, file 13 Box 9, files 5–23.

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Church student services records.
1958–1981.
10 cm of textual records.

This series consists of reports, study and position papers, minutes, mandate, correspondence, newsletters, and directories.

This series is locate in Box 9, files 26–29.

Textual file list

Box 1

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches convention minutes, statement of faith (1925), correspondence concerning incorporation (1931), constitution, bylaws, and act of incorporation (1932), annual reports, pacifism and peace position of the Mennonite World Conference paper and correspondence (1935), peace position of the Canadian conference (1936), financial report (1935) and a detailed file list of the holdings in Fresno, California (1977). – 1925–1936.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches convention minutes, reports, financial statement (1936–1939), correspondence, annual reports, charter and constitution and bylaws (1939). – 1936–1939.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches history published in an MB Herald article. – 1979.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches convention minutes, financial statements (1939–1973), annual reports, conference statistics (1953). – 1939–1973.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches annual reports, Yorkdale Community Church proposal. – 1986.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Annual reports, Yorkdale Community Church proposal. – 1987.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches annual reports, reports, and newspaper clipping. – 1988.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches annual reports, and reports. – 1989.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches annual reports, reports, and the millennium booklet. – 1990–2000.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches act of incorporation (1932), constitution (1932), charter and bylaws (1932), incorporation documents (1933), charter, constitution, and bylaws ([193-?]–1963). – 1932–1963.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches constitutions and bylaws, newspaper clipping. – 1968–1977.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches correspondence, reports, Africa Inland Mission reports, correspondence and reports concerning pacifism position, correspondence and reports concerning the establishment and operation of a home for mentally ill patients, Russian Bible Institute correspondence, executive committee meeting minutes (1944). – 1931–1948.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches correspondence, Eden Christian College report (1964). – 1957–1964.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches reports, constitution committee meeting minutes (1965), convention agenda (1965), draft constitutions, and correspondence. – 1964–1972.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches convention correspondence, household fellowship session and making a house a home outline, financial statements. – 1976.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches convention correspondence, programme committee meeting minutes, news report of the convention, MB MS promotional material, and reports. – 1978.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches correspondence. – 1976–1979.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches executive committee meeting minutes, correspondence, financial reports, Bethesda Transfer Study commission meeting minutes, convention programme. – 1975–1977.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches correspondence and financial reports. – 1977–1978.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches correspondence, financial reports, Bethesda Study Commission meeting minutes, Board of education meeting minutes, executive committee meeting minutes, Rockway Mennonite School materials, reports, and convention keynote address. – 1978–1979.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches correspondence, reports, and convention meeting minutes. – 1925–1941.

Box 2

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches fundamental principles (1932), Fürsorgekomitee meeting minutes, correspondence, and reports, joint meeting minutes of the conference committee and the relief committee, conference committee meeting minutes and correspondence, joint meeting minutes of Fürsorgekomitee and missions committee, directory of conference office holders and congregational leaders, joint meeting minutes of Fürsorgekomitee and the Bible School committee, financial reports. – 1932–1957.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Fürsorgekomitee meeting minutes and correspondence, programme committee meeting minutes, conference committee meeting minutes and correspondence, joint meeting minutes of the Fürsorgekomitee and the exeuctive committees of Eden Christian College and the Bible School. – 1958–1961.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches conference committee meeting minutes, Fürsorgekomitee meeting minutes, proposed constitution for mission churches, joint meeting minutes of representatives of the Ontario and Manitoba conferences concerning a joint Bible School, correspondence, financial records, conference of historic peace churches correspondence, survey questionnaires. – 1962.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches correspondence, Fürsorgekomitee meeting minutes, provisional education committee meeting minutes, reports, Conference of Historic Peace churches meeting minutes. – 1963–1964.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches correspondence, Historic Peace Churches meeting minutes and correspondence, conference committee meeting minutes, Fürsorgekomitee meeting minutes, programme committee meeting minutes, Bethesda Home report, statistical data. – 1964.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches correspondence, Fürsorgekomitee meeting minutes, constitutional materials, financial records, joint meeting minutes of the Fürsorgekomitee and the missions and conference committees, conference committee meeting minutes, directories, statistical material. – 1965.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Fürsorgekomitee correspondence, minutes, and reports. – 1938–1958.

Box 3

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches correspondence, pension plan committee meeting minutes, executive committee meeting minutes, Fürsorgekomitee meeting minutes, constitutional materials, financial records, reports, Committee of Reference and Counsel meeting minutes, Niagara Christian Fellowship Chapel financial statement, specifications for Mountview M. B. Church building. – 1966.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches finance committee recommendations, financial records, Committee of reference and counsel meeting minutes, correspondence, executive committee meeting minutes. – 1967.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches correspondence, committee of reference and counsel meeting minutes, program committee meeting minutes. – 1968.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches correspondence, programme committee meeting minutes, committee of reference and counsel meeting minutes, joint meeting minutes of the committee of reference and counsel representatives and the board of trustees representatives, reports, nominating committee directory, directory of Tabor Manor residents. – 1969.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches correspondence, reports, camp property committee meeting minutes, committee of reference and counsel meeting minutes, programme committee meeting minutes, constitution revision materials. – 1970.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches reports, board of spiritual and social concerns meeting minutes, study paper on the biblical view of sexuality (1972), draft of the MB Confession of faith, study paper on the position of women in the church (1972), study paper on the liturgical use of translations of the Bible, Board of spiritual and social concerns executive committee meeting minutes, joint meeting minutes of the board of spiritual and social concerns executive committee, representatives of the MBBC and MBBS, child dedication liturgy, ordination questionnaire, working paper on marriage. – 1971–1975.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches church planning commission directory, correspondence, minutes, directory of churches in Regional Niagara. – 1973–1977.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches board of spiritual and social concerns executive committee meeting minutes, ordination questionnaires, resolution on consensus and change on ethical issues, board of spiritual and social concerns meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, study on conference priorities (1978), study on biblical priorities for the church (1978), working paper on stewardship. – 1976–1978.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches correspondence, board of spiritual and social concerns meeting minutes, questionnaire for ordination, study summary of scriptural priorities for the church, charismatic question resolution, reports, study paper on funerals of suicide victims, and assorted brochures. – 1974–1981.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches pastoral care commission correspondence, study paper on ordination, minutes, and resumes. – 1970–1981.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Board of trustees material. – 1972.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Board of trustees minutes, reports, correspondence, financial statements. – 1979–1981.
13. Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches S. Schulkomitee meeting minutes, study paper on the authority of Christian high schools, correspondence, assorted brochures, young people’s materials, educational considerations for the establishment of a residential Mennonite college. – 1942–1958.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches youth materials including a paper outline on a successful youth worker, aims of young people’s work, authority in Christian high schools, culture and education, evangelical teacher training association materials, and a Mennonite Observer editorial. – [196-?].
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches workshop outlines for the Christian education workers’ conference in Kitchener, four lectures at the education conference in Winnipeg. – 1964.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches board of Christian education (Canadian conf.) correspondence, reports, national Christian education convention programme (1967–1969), minutes of Ontario Christian education committee and board of Christian education, Ontario youth committee meeting minutes, a paper on Christian high schools, proposed Christian education committee bylaws, survey, a BIC teacher training programme. – 1965–1978.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches board of Christian education meeting minutes and report. – 1979.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches board of Christian education meeting minutes, reports, and correspondence. – 1980.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches board of Christian education meeting minutes, academic affairs committee meeting minutes, reports, and the constitution and bylaws of the Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (1981). – 1981–1982.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches youth organization correspondence, minutes, reports, financial report, paper outline on Christian stewardship, youth leaders’ directories (1956), course outline for youth work in local churches. – 1955–1956.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches youth committee correspondence, minutes, financial records, fact finding committee meeting minutes, youth conference materials, youth workers’ conference materials (1958), educational fund protocols, reports. – 1957–1959.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches correspondence, youth rally/conference materials, youth questionnaire, educational fund materials, reports, financial statement. – 1959–1963, 1970.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Sunday School committee meeting minutes, Sunday School convention minutes, Sunday School statistics (1962), and financial statement. – 1936–1967.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Camp Crossroads board meeting minutes, reports, bylaws, select committee for Camp Crossroads property meeting minutes, fund raising commission meeting minutes, board of camping ministries meeting minutes, financial statement. – 1979–1981.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches music committee correspondence. – 1963.
Ontario Sunday School Association correspondence, Evangelical Fellowship of Canada materials, programme committee meeting minutes, steering committee meeting minutes, publicity committee meeting minutes, housing and hospitality committee meeting minutes, convention materials. – 1968–1970.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches correspondence, financial records, reports, mostly regarding missions. – 1930–1938.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Sunday school committee meeting minutes, correspondence. – 1936–1938.

Box 4

Tabor Manor bylaws (1967), board meeting minutes, reports, joint meeting minutes of board and advisory committee. – 1967, 1977–1978.
Tabor Manor board meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, and financial records. – 1979.
Tabor Manor board meeting minutes and reports. – 1980.
Tabor Manor board meeting minutes and reports. – 1981.
Tabor Manor board meeting minutes and reports. – 1982.
Tabor Manor board meeting minutes, staff policy, and reports. – 1983.
Tabor Manor board meeting minutes and reports, Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Council of Boards meetings minutes and reports. – 1984.
Tabor Manor board meeting minutes and reports. – 1985.
Tabor Manor board meeting minutes and reports. – 1986.
Tabor Manor board meeting minutes and reports. – 1987.
Tabor Manor board meeting minutes and reports, which includes the authorization to house the newly founded Ontario archives. – 1988.
Tabor Manor board meeting minutes and reports. – 1989.
Tabor Manor board meeting minutes and reports. – 1990.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches position paper on tithes and offerings (1935), ministers’ convention minutes (1933–1937), ministers and deacons convention minutes and reports (1936–1959). – 1933–1959.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches ministers’ convention minutes (1933–1935), position paper on ecclesiology (1935) and prophecy ([193-?]), ministers and deacons convention minutes and reports (1936–1942). – 1933–1942.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches ministers and deacons convention minutes and reports. – 1944–1957.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches ministers and deacons correspondence, committee minutes, study paper on evangelism. – 1974–1980.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches constitution committee correspondence, minutes, reports, draft charter and bylaws, student services report, proposed constitution of the Toronto MB Church (1964), joint meeting minutes of home missions, constitution, and Toronto MB church committees. – 1963–1965.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches constitution committee correspondence, minutes, reports, draft bylaws of the senior citizens’ home (1967), act of incorporation of the Ontario M. B. Conference (1932), mortgage documents for senior citizens’ home (1967–1968), education committee correspondence (1968), joint meeting minutes of constitution and youth, music, Sunday school, and Boys’ club committees. – 1967–1969.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches constitution committee meeting minutes, correspondence, amended act of incorporation as modified Letters Patent, joint meeting minutes of constitution committee and the Board of Spiritual and Social concerns, reports. – 1969–1979.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches constitution committee reports. – 1979–1981.
Non-Resistant Relief Organization correspondence, conference of historic peace churches convention minutes, Peace and Christian service conference materials (1962), church peace mission newsletters (1963–1964), MCC (Ontario) service section meeting minutes (1964), MCC (Ontario) board meeting minutes, constitution, founding meeting minutes, reports, assorted brochures, position papers on capital punishment, litigation, and a Mennonite Board of Missions voluntary service booklet. – 1956–1964.
Mennonite Central Committee and Mennonite Central Committee (Ontario) correspondence, relief and immigration section meeting minutes, executive committee meeting minutes, annual meeting minutes and reports, constitution, service section meeting minutes, memorial service programme for Harvey Taves (1965), section reports, peace and social concerns committee meeting minutes, Ontario MDS executive committee meeting minutes, news releases, youth peace retreat evaluations and other materials, Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario board meeting minutes, Craigwood Board meeting minutes, MB Peace conference materials, assorted brochures, office holders directory. – 1965–1967.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches statistics, as well as those for Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and B.C. MB Conferences. – 1957.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches salary commission meeting minutes and report. – 1979.

Box 5

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Vacation Bible School (VBS) material orders. – 1965–1967.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS reports, service applications, workers’ training seminar materials, and assorted brochures. – 1970–1973.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS materials. – 1975.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS correspondence. – 1953.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS correspondence. – 1956.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS correspondence. – 1957.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS correspondence. – 1958.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS correspondence. – 1958–1961.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS correspondence. – 1959.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS correspondence. – 1960.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS survey. – 1960.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS correspondence. – 1961.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS correspondence. – 1962–1963.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS correspondence. – 1964–1965.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS correspondence. – 1966–1967.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS financial records. – 1956.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS financial records. – 1957.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS financial records. – 1958.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS financial records. – 1959.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS financial records. – 1960.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS financial records and statistics. – 1962.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS statistical reports, follow-up materials and reports, financial records, correspondence, directories. – 1963.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches teacher application data. – 1946.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches teacher application data. – 1951.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches teacher applications. – 1954.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches teacher applications. – 1955.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches teacher applications. – 1956.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches teacher applications. – 1957.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches statistical records, reports, and teacher applications. – 1958.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches teacher applications and lists. – 1959.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches teacher applications and lists. – 1960.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches teacher applications and lists. – 1961.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches teacher applications. – 1962.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches teacher applications, financial records, lists, and correspondence. – 1963.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches lists, applications, correspondence, reports, statistics, and financial records. – 1968–1969.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches teacher applications, lists, correspondence, reports, policy and regulation documents, news items, congregational bulletins. – 1968–1972.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches teacher applications, correspondence, reports, and assorted promotional material. – 1974.

Box 6

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS statistics, directories, programmes, correspondence, teaching materials. – 1958–1961.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS teachers’ handbook, regulations, review (1960), newsletter. – 1960–[196-?].
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS reports and correspondence. – 1963–1968.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS teachers’ applications. – 1964–1967.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS workers’ convention materials, correspondence, assorted advertising materials. – 1964–1972.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches reports, correspondence, congregational directory for Hamilton, financial records, follow-up materials. – 1964.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS reports. – 1945.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS reports. – 1946.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS reports. – 1947.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS reports. – 1948.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS reports. – 1949.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS reports. – 1950.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS reports. – 1951.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS reports and teachers’ applications. – 1952.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS reports and teachers’ applications. – 1953.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS reports. – 1954.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS reports. – 1955.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS attendance statistics. – 1955–1960.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS reports, follow-up material, correspondence, statistics, teaching materials. – 1955–1961.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS reports. – 1956.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS attendance statistics. – 1956–1959.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS attendance statistics. – 1956–1960.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS attendance statistics. – 1956–1960.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS reports. – 1957.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS attendance statistics. – 1958–1964.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS attendance statistics. – 1958–1964.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS reports. – 1959.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS reports. – 1960.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS reports. – 1961.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS attendance statistics and reports. – [196-?].
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS attendance statistics and reports. – [196-?].
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS attendance statistics and reports. – [196-?].

Box 7

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS reports. – 1962.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS reports and statistics. – 1964–1967.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS attendance statistics. – 1966.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS attendance statistics. – 1967.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches VBS attendance statistics. – 1968.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches correspondence, newspaper clippings, bibliographical material, draft paper on religious education in the public school system. – 1963–1966.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches commission on the formation of a Bible school meeting minutes and correspondence. – 1938.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches education committee correspondence, survey materials, meeting minutes, committee directory, reports, bylaws. – 1958–1965.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches education committee correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, materials concerning religious instruction in public schools, financial reports, education committee executive meeting minutes, joint meeting minutes of the education executive committee and the Bible school board. – 1965–1966.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches education committee directory, education executive committee meeting minutes, education committee meeting minutes, reports, financial statements, correspondence, student service board report, joint meeting minutes of education executive committee, Eden executive committee, and conference trustees. – 1967–1968.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches education committee correspondence, Student service board reports, education committee meeting minutes, planning committee meeting minutes, fund-raising committee meeting minutes, materials on government aid to private schools. – 1969.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches education committee reports, correspondence, survey materials, meeting minutes, board of education meeting minutes, board directory. – 1970.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches missions committee meeting minutes, correspondence, Konferenz-Jugendblatt clipping, General conference board of missions and service report, Canada Inland mission report, joint meeting minutes of mission boards from the Western Ontario Mennonite Conference, Mennonite Conference of Ontario, United Mennonite Conference of Ontario, Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church (1965–1966), missions committee report, Board of church extension meeting minutes and reports (1978–1979), Board of church extension executive committee meeting minutes (1979), pulpit committee meeting minutes (1979). – 1951–1979.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches missions committee’s guiding principles for opening new mission churches ([196-?]), joint meeting minutes, correspondence, and policies of mission boards from the Western Ontario Mennonite Conference, Mennonite Conference of Ontario, United Mennonite Conference of Ontario, Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church (1964–1965), Toronto service project report, guidelines, correspondence (1967). – [196-?]–1967.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches missions committee meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence, directory for reference and counsel and missions committee (1966), joint meeting minutes of missions committee, trustees committee, and building committee, joint meeting minutes of missions committee, board of trustees, and Mountview Church executive committee, joint meeting minutes of missions committee and Toronto MB Church council, (changed name to Board of Church Extension in autumn, 1971). – 1965–1977.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches missions committee meeting minutes, correspondence, financial records, reports, Stoney Creek contract for new meeting house, Mountview MB Church annual reports (1966–1968). – 1965–1968.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Mission Board correspondence, reports, Board of Church extension correspondence, reports, receipts, financial records. – 1970–1974.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Board of Church extension reports, meeting minutes, financial statements, a brief history of the Toronto MB Church (1980), executive committee meeting minutes. – 1980–1981.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Board of Church extension meeting minutes, reports, correspondence. – 1982–1984.

Box 8

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Council of Boards meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, financial statements, position paper on church membership and draft evaders. – 1971–1972.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches financial statements, reports, Council of Boards meeting minutes, correspondence. – 1973–1976.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Council of Board meeting minutes, reports, correspondence. – 1977–1978.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Council of Boards meeting minutes, reports, financial statements. – 1979–1981.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Stewardship commission meeting minutes, correspondence. – 1976.
Study papers on: a. feeding the world’s hungry b. The Christian and government, c. Evolution d. Biblical nonresistance.

Box 9

Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Education board correspondence, meeting minutes, student services committee report, Bible school report, Eden reports, board members directory, Rockway Mennonite high school materials. – 1971.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches board of education meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, board members directory. – 1972.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches board of education meeting minutes, correspondence, long range facilities planning reports, reports, fund raising commission meeting minutes, board members directory. – 1973–1974.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches revised board of education bylaws (1976), joint meeting minutes of education board and Eden committees and administration, reports, meeting minutes. – 1976–1978.
Student register for high school and Bible school (1946–1947), register for Bible school (1948–1949), school association meeting minutes, Eden building committee meeting minutes, Eden administration committee meeting minutes, correspondence, joint meeting minutes of administration, teachers, and board, Eden board meeting minutes, Profane Altertumskunde by A. H. Redekop ([194-?]). – 1946–1949.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Eden Bible school financial records, joint meeting of board and staff, correspondence, board meeting minutes, correspondence, executive committee meeting minutes, reports, school regulations, financial records. – 1949.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Eden teachers’ meeting minutes, joint meeting minutes of teachers and executive committee, school committee meeting minutes, executive committee meeting minutes, teachers’ committee meeting minutes, reports, financial statement (1955), joint meeting minutes of the committee for reference and counsel, high school executive committee, and Bible school committee. – 1950–1955.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Eden Christian college committee meeting minutes, financial statements, joint meeting of school committee and teachers, school executive committee meeting minutes, school teachers’ committee meeting minutes, correspondence, regulations for conduct. – 1956–1957.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches education committee survey results and report, paper on population explosion (1960), correspondence. – 1960.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches school committee meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, financial records, Eden auxiliary meeting minutes, joint meeting minutes of teachers and Eden board, Eden board executive committee meeting minutes. – 1958–1961.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Eden board meeting minutes, financial statements, correspondence, reports. – 1962.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Eden board meeting minutes, correspondence, joint meeting minutes of board and faculty, financial statements. – 1963.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Eden board meeting minutes, correspondence, financial statements, reports, Bible school board correspondence, student fee policy, newspaper clipping, school survey materials. – 1964.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Eden board meeting minutes, correspondence, financial statements, facilities study report ([196-?]), newspaper clipping (1966), elementary school interest survey ([196-?]), Eden Boosters’ Association mission statement ([196-?]), comparative enrollment survey ([196-?]), and comparative teachers salaries ([196-?]). – 1965–1966.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Eden board meeting minutes, enrollment survey (1967), correspondence, interschool programme (1967), financial statements, senior elementary school study commission report ([196-?]), Eden renovation meeting minutes, reports, planning committee meeting minutes, fund raising committee meeting minutes. – 1967–1968.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Eden board meeting minutes, financial statements, correspondence, fund raising committee meeting minutes, reports, schematic school expansion plans, newspaper clipping, 25th anniversary programme, school enrollment figures, summary of staff teaching years, rental rate schedule. – 1969–1970.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Eden board meeting minutes, Eden committee meeting minutes, reports, financial statements, correspondence, rental discussion materials for Eden by a congregation, academic outline material, discount policy comparisons. – 1971.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Eden committee meeting minutes, correspondence, financial statements, joint meeting minutes of board of education executive and Eden committee, reports, architectural drawings for school expansion. – 1972.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Eden committee meeting minutes, reports, financial statements, correspondence, fund raising commission meeting minutes, dress code policy (1973), Eden auditorium building committee meeting minutes, fee structure schedules, staff directory. – 1973.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Eden committee meeting minutes, Eden auditorium building committee meeting minutes, financial records, joint meeting minutes of Eden committee and houseparents, correspondence, Eden fund raising committee meeting minutes, correspondence, faculty interaction with pastors meeting minutes, financial statements. – 1974.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Eden auditorium building committee meeting minutes, Eden commission meeting minutes, reports, excerpts from the Ontario Education Act (1974), directory. – 1975–1976.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Eden charitable donation policy, budget, and financial statement. – 1978.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Eden Foundation proposal, reports, correspondence, financial statements, Eden committee meeting minutes. – 1980–1981.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Bible school committee minute extracts (1950–1955), financial statements, executive committee meeting minutes, Bible school board meeting minutes, reports, joint meeting minutes of the Bible School board and the Education committee executive, correspondence, student directory ([1968?]), Bible school committee meeting minutes, proposed constitution of the Association of MB Bible Schools and Bible Institutes ([197-?]). – 1950–1973.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Bible school committee financial records. – 1980–1981.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches student services committee reports, study papers on various topics, correspondence, position paper on the founding of a residential college at the University of Waterloo ([1959?]). – 1958–1962.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches student services committee meeting minutes, reports, Mennonite (Mennonite Church) student services committee meeting minutes and reports, mandate of the student services committee (1967), correspondence, University Christian Conference of Canada Quarterly bulletin (1967), student services board newsletter (1967). – 1965–1967.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches student services board meeting minutes, financial statements, newsletters, Mennonite Church student services work proposal (1969), student directories (1969–1975), reports, inter-Mennonite student services committee meeting minutes (1973), student services committee meeting minutes. – 1968–1978.
Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches student services committee meeting minutes, book review of ‘Congregations, Students and Young Adults’, reports. – 1979–1981.