About the Voices of Essex-Kent Mennonites project:
Voices of Essex-Kent Mennonites creates a memorial and tribute to the families who first came to Essex and Kent Counties, Ontario from other countries or areas of Canada. Their lives were often hard, and we, their descendants, are always thankful that they made the difficult decision to leave their homes and relocate in this area.
By collecting and sharing photographs, stories, interviews, and artefacts, this project aims to preserve the histories of these people, and tell the stories of their lives and their families’ lives in Essex and Kent Counties.
EKMHA also hopes to record significant events in the lives of the first Mennonite settlers’ descendants such that the family histories of Essex-Kent Mennonites will continue to be preserved in real-time.
How to contribute:
We welcome contributions about any person or experience related to the Mennonites of Essex and Kent Counties, Ontario, Canada. 
Contributions can be submitted in a variety of forms, including photographs, videos, audio files, and text. Please share stories about grandparents, aunts, uncles, special occasions, everyday activities, work, play — anything about coming to Canada or life as it continued. You can also submit a person to be included in our database of Essex-Kent Mennonites. Submitting a person to the collection includes providing some or all of the individual’s name, birth date, place of birth, death date, occupation, and biographic details.
Please submit only one item at a time.
Each contribution submitted to Voices of Essex-Kent Mennonites is evaluated and processed by EKMHA volunteers. Thus, it may take some time between when you submit your contribution and when it appears on the website.
If you have any questions about this or other projects, please get in touch with us at voices@ekmha.ca.
