Browsing all posts in February, 2011.

The "Conservatives"

I think it is not unfair criticism to say that we the “enlightened” Mennonites have tended to look down just a bit at those of our brethren whose ideas we felt we could dismiss by calling them “conservative.”– A Second Look at the Rejected Conservative

The so-called conservative travelled to Canada in 1874 [...]

Fher: The First Family Immigrants in Steinbach, Manitoba

It was in Schoneberg, Chortitza Colony in Imperial Russia where Jakob Fher’s life had started, exactly in the year 1809. Genealogist Henry Schapansky has written that Isaac de Fher of Nieder-Chortiza, Chortiza Colony appears to be Jakob Fher’s father. Their family was headed by Benjamin De Fher, Jakob Fher’s grandfather, was listed on the Wirtschaft [...]