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Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church (Kitchener, Ontario)

Retrieval numbers: Volumes 4622, 5006, 5324-5326.

Title: Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church (Kitchener, Ont.) fonds
Dates: 1924-2001, predominant 1949-1988, 1995-2001)
Extent: 72 cm of textual records
Repository: Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives

Historical note

Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church was founded in 1924 in Kitchener, Ontario. It resulted from a dispute in the First Mennonite Church over dress code. There were 115 charter members. They met in the First Mennonite Church meeting house until 1925. They then completed their own meeting house. This building was expanded in the 1950s and again in the 1990s. In 1947 there were 411 members. In 1960 there were 437 members. It stayed at about that level until 1990 when it was 368. In 2000 it was 318. The leaders of the congregation were: Urias Weber (1924-1942), Andrew Shelly ([1947?]-1953), Wilfred Ulrich (1954-1962), James Reusser (1963-1975), Ron Rempel (1976-1978), Martha Smith Good (1979), Alson Weber (1980), Vernon Leis (1981-1987), Mary Mae Schwartendruber (1981-1991), Paul Martin (1992), David Martin (1993- ).

Scope and content note

This fonds contains bulletins (1952, 1961, 1968-1988,1996-2001), newsletters (1949-1958, 1965-1988, 1995-1999), directories (1973-1977, 1993-2001), minutes (1995), and annual reports (1943, 1944, 1950-1971, 1980, 1995). The records pertain to the development of the Mennonite congregation in Kitchener, Ontario. They document some of the leaders and participants in the congregation.

Index terms

Subject terms

Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church (Kitchener, Ontario)

Creators

Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church (Kitchener, Ontario)

Adjunct descriptive data

Finding aids

Inventory file list available.

Notes

Restrictions on access

No restrictions on access.

Other notes

Textual records have been deposited by the congregation since 1996 on a regular basis at the Mennonite Heritage Centre. In 2007 additional congregational records were received from Mennonite Church USA Archives (Newton, KS). Described by Bert Friesen 12 July 2002. Updated by Alf Redekopp 18 March 2008.

Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church (Kitchener, Ont.) fonds file list:

Volume 5324

1. Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church constitutions (1924, 1954, 1954 rev.)
2. Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church bulletins (19 Oct 1952; 14 May 1961)
3. Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church bulletins (1968-1970)
4. Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church bulletins (1971-1973)
5. Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church bulletins (1974-1975)
6. Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church bulletins (1976-1977)
7. Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church bulletins (1978-1979)
8. Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church bulletins (1980-1981)
9. Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church bulletins (1982-1984)
10. Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church bulletins (1985-1986)
11. Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church bulletins (1987-1988)
12. Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church annual reports (1943, 1944, 1950-1961, 1964-1971, 1980)
13. Membership directories (1973-1977)
14. Stirling "Messenger" (newsletter) (1949-1958)
15. Stirling "Messenger" (newsletter) (1965-1970)
16. Stirling "Messenger" (newsletter) (1971-1975)
17. Stirling "Messenger" (newsletter) (1976-1980)

Volume 5325

1. Stirling  "Messenger" (newletter) (1976-1981) (arranged chronologically)

Volume 5326

1. Stirling  "Messenger" (newletter) (1982-1988) (arranged chronologically)

Volume 4622

1. Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church bulletins (1996), newsletters (1995-1996), pictorial directory (1993), congregational meeting minutes (1995), annual reports (1995)
2. Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church bulletins (1997), newsletters (1997)
3. Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church bulletins (1998), lent resources (1998), newsletters (1998)
4. Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church bulletins (1999), newsletters (1999)
5. Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church bulletins (2000), directory (1993)

Volume 5006

1. Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church bulletins (2001), Sunday School register (2001)
2. Stirling Avenue mennonite Church directory (2000-2001)

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