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Archives for November 2012

November 29, 2012

Pelee Island Pump Organ

The pump organ used for services on Pelee Island, Ontario

One of the display items at the Mennonite Heritage Centre on Pickwick Drive of Leamington is a pump organ donated by Gerhard and Gay Wiebe of Essex, Ontario. This instrument was manufactured in Guelph, Ontario in 1898 and purchased from an unknown source in 1930 by my Grandmother Anna Wiebe who had come to Pelee […]

Article by Astrid Koop / Filed Under: Stories Then /

November 29, 2012

Making Vereneke

Vereneche in the pan

This article was written and submitted by Mary Thiessen with pictures taken by Bruno Penner:   They come to mix, roll, squeeze and pinch two mornings in April. Fifteen or twenty they come; almost too many, so they take turns. They come from Wheatley, Harrow, Kingsville, Leamington, and even from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to partake […]

Article by Helga Harder / Filed Under: Footprints /

November 25, 2012

Meadowbrook Fellowship

Large yellow brick church with a white steeple

Pastors: Lead Pastor: Chris Walker; Youth, Media Pastor: Xaviar Avtla; Children, Connections Pastor: Sarah Elachkar 219  Talbot St. E.  Leamington  ON.  N8H 3V8 519-326-3604

Article by Walt Koop / Filed Under: Churches / Tagged With: Church, Leamington

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