‘Anything else would be a lie’: 5 Questions with Ralph Friesen
Ralph Friesen was born in Steinbach in 1945 and was raised in the Mill Street (now 2nd Street) neighbourhood, surrounded by uncles, aunts and cousins. […]
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Buffalo Trails & Very Old Trees Alongside Historic Stony Brook
I’ve amassed many Preservings issues from the past… and somewhere, sometime when I was paging through one, I came across a snippet, labeled “Steinbach Creek.” […]
What About Katharina Thiessen? (A.K.A. Mrs. Jacob Barkman)
I was called out! Yes it’s true. I concluded this post with Andrew’s great-great-great-grandfather Jacob Barkman’s death in the Red River in 1875, as if […]
The Story of Peter B. Koop (born 1870) Is Just Really Sad
I wondered what would happen if I searched out Koops in GAMEO. Well here’s what happened: I discovered a story that made me cry. The […]
You Definitely HAVE to Pick Up a Copy of the Latest Issue of Preservings!
My interest in Mennonite history is very new, and so my wonder at discovering Preservings at the Steinbach MCC perhaps caused some to roll their […]