The Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario encourages and supports a variety of projects which interpret Mennonite Heritage to Mennonites and non-Mennonites alike through periodicals, workshops and seminars, public meetings, historical sites and publications.

Fall Meeting
Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario
Saturday, October 15, 2011
2:30 p.m.
Riverdale Mennonite Church
4138 Perth Line 72, Millbank, Ontario
(Just west of Millbank, west of Perth Road 121 & Line 72 Intersection)

Main Presentation by Dr. Kerry Fast
 A Culture in the Making: The Dietsche in Ontario.

Kerry Fast, originally from Manitoba, has recently completed a Ph.D. at the Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto. She is part of research team working on “horse and buggy Mennonites,” especially Old Colony Mennonites in Latin America. She is a research associate for a York University study on the migration experience of Mennonite women from Mexico in Ontario and Alberta. She is presently co-editing a book on Mennonites and mothering.

Photo courtesy MCC Ontario

Schedule:
2:30 p.m.    Welcome
Presentation by Kerry Fast
Discussion with Kerry Fast
Lily Hiebert Rempel, MCC Ontario Low German Program Coordinator will give a brief update on opportunities for Low German families in Ontario. 

All are welcome!
No registration required!
Free parking!

Take a virtual tour of the Brubacher House, an historical site co-sponsored by the Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario and Conrad Grebel University College.

View a recent issue of Ontario Mennonite History
     (November 2005, Vol. 23 No.2) 
 (A publication of the Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario)

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• The Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario is affiliated with Conrad Grebel University College and the Mennonite Archives of Ontario.