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.

Join us for our Annual Meeting on June 13, 2009 at Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Road North, Waterloo on the theme:

"Saving the John E. Brubacher House: Giving the Past a Future "

John E. Brubacher House in former days

Please join at Conrad Grebel University College on Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 1:30 p.m. The meeting will be in the Great Hall in the lower level of the Academic Building.

The feature event will be the 30th anniversary celebration of the Brubacher House Museum, located on the North Campus of the University of Waterloo. Guest speaker Prof. Ken McLaughlin will speak on the topic, "Saving the John E. Brubacher House: Giving the Past a Future." Prof. McLaughlin is Professor Emeritus in the History Department at the University of Waterloo. He has a long term interest in, and has written many articles and books about the Waterloo Region.

The business meeting will include reports, and a proposal to revise the mandate of the J. Winfield Fretz award to support the writing and publication of research on the history of Mennonites in Ontario. There will be opportunity to renew memberships; a free-will offering will be taken.

The meetings at the College will be followed by tours and birthday cake at the Brubacher House Museum on the North campus. See map below:

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 and located at Conrad Grebel University College.