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  • Hulda’s Rock
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  • Trees Were Their Refuge
  • Historian, Fall 2016
  • The Clouds Would Have Looked Much the Same
  • Carrot Harvest In Saskatchewan
  • Potato Digging In Saskatchewan
  • Martin Tiessen, born March 16, 1939, in Petipese, Manitoba
  • Sally Sara Froese Dyck, born April 9, 1930 in Halkirk, Alberta
  • Gertrude Wiens, born in New Hamburg, Ontario
  • William Albert Tiessen, born August 25th, 1940 in Leamington, Ontario
  • New Immigrants Cont’d Part 7
  • Thrills on Mill
  • Historian, Spring 2016
  • Blytheswood Old Colony Mennonite Church
  • Janet (Toews) Tiessen, born November 21st, 1943 in St. Catherines, Ontario
  • The Mission Hall Project
  • Arrival Of New Immigrants The 1934-1939 Period Part Six
  • Evelyn Miller, born on May 15, 1929 in Pontiac, Michigan
  • Johanna Dyck, born December 25, 1923 in Warwarowka, Ukraine
  • Snacks for 39
  • Arrival Of New Immigrants cont’d Part V
  • Balalaika Music
  • Apple Platz
  • Arrival Of Immigrants In Essex County: Part Five
  • How to eat Zwiebach
  • Great excitement at the Heritage Centre!
  • Does it schmeks?
  • The Full Circle Thrift Shop
  • Recycling Business
  • Agnes Boldt Toews, born 1936 in Fernheim, Paraguay
  • Our Visit with a Mennonite Family in Chihuahua, Mexico
  • Guenter Rahn, born 1933 in Goldau, West Prussia
  • Gertrude Hamm Toews, born 1921 in Shostak, Russia
  • Elizabeth Neufeld Hoch: born June 6, 1922 in Kronsthal, Russia
  • Part 4 Immigrants To Essex County: Worship Services
  • John H. Dick: born December 26, 1921 in Alexanderkrone, Russia
  • Part Three: Immigration to Essex County
  • My Grandmother Elizabeth Lasi Neufeld’s Journey
  • Agatha Driedger Neufeld
  • Fasting for The Gleaners
  • Abram Gerhard Flaming and Liesa Dick Flaming’s Refugee Experience
  • Abram Epp story, now with photos
  • 27th Annual Banquet, March 21, 2015
  • February 2015
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  • Mennonites Like To Grow Things Cont’d
  • Bergthaler Mennonite Church
  • Leamington United Mennonite Church
  • German Expressions for Scolding Naughty Children
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  • Hallowe’en Memories
  • Growing Things: Dean Tiessen and his grasses
  • Part 2 of Immigrants to Essex County
  • Jacob Tiessen Story
  • The Initial Years In Essex And Kent Counties
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  • July 2014
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  • Coming Events: December 2013
  • Festival of Thankgiving – November 10, 2013: Review
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  • Susa Enns Story
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  • Shortest Church Service
  • Building A Log Structure
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