Author: Annie Mathies Krause Note: the writer was born February 25, 1923 in Alexanderkrone, Molotschna, USSR. Annie died June 02, 1998 in Leamington, Ontario, Canada. Annie and Heinrich Wilhelm Krause were married April 18, 1942, at the Mennonite Church on Oak Street, Leamington. Annie’s siblings are Margaret Toews, Louise Ross, William 1925-1972, Harry 1931-1956, and […]
Torch Bearer
Mennonite Footprints is intended to show the cultural practices that Mennonites have engaged in for ages. Those who continue to perform them are the torch bearers. The customs that fall beside the way become our footprints. This picture is that of a real torch bearer helping to carry the Olympic torch across the nation. The […]
Pelee Island Footprints
Perhaps nowhere else is the word Footprints more apt than in the case of Mennonite history on Pelee Island. For a brief time, these Mennonite families were part of the life of Pelee Island. They lived there, raised their families, sent their children to school on the island, made their living on the land and called […]
