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id., p. 42. 11. An interesting account of the religious, cultural, educational and industrial development of this Mennonite town is given by Frank Brown in an article, "Winkler, Manitoba," Mennonite Life, XI (July, 1956), 120-125. 12. Unruh, op. cit., p. 499. The "Sommerfeld Mennonites" originated as a separate group in 1890 when the Bergthal Mennonite Church divided into a minority progressive wing and a majority conservative wing (Sommerfelder). "Old Colony Mennonites" is a socio-religious group in Manitoba which originally came from the Chortitza and Fuerstenland colonies in Russia. See ME, IV, 38-42. 13. See the comprehensive account of this mission by Miss Anna Thiessen, Die Stadt mission in Winnipeg (Winnipeg: Regehr's Printing, 1955). 14. Ibid., p. 7. 15. See Anna Thiessen's account, ibid., pp. 48-78, on the history of the girls' home. 16. Unruh, op. cit., p. 492. 17. See article on "Saskatchewan," ME, IV, 424-426. 18. Harms, op. cit., p. 218. 19. Quoted in "Short History of Laird Mennonite Brethren Church," (Unpublished manuscript), p. 1. 20. This congregation is now (1971) extinct. 21. As given by Harms, op. cit., pp. 212-228 and Unruh, op. cit., pp. 512-515, et al. 22. Sources with regard to date of founding and number of charter members do not always agree. 23. The writer remembers this "patriarch" of the M.B. Church as one who would encourage young brethren in the work of the ministry. 24. Again Unruh, op. cit., and Harms, op. cit., provide most of the data. Much information can also be obtained from the brief acounts on local congregations in the Mennonite Encyclopedia. 25. See Harms, op. cit., p. 222. 26. Ibid., p. 229. Brother Hiebert also served as a Bible colporteur in both North and South Saskatchewan, and thus met a great need in providing Christian literature. 27. The full "Bible School Story" will be told in chapter sixteen. 28. These terms are employed by E. K. Francis in his book In Search of Utopia IGlencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1955) to describe the Mennonites who arrived in the 1920's and in the 1870's, respectively. For more than two decades these designations were widely used, especially in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, to describe basic cultural differences between the two groups. 29. J. H. Lohrenz, op. cit., p. 193. 30. Ibid., p. 208. 31. Information on local congregations in Manitoba can be found in Unruh, op. cit., and in the Mennonite Encyclopedia. 32. This constitutes more than one half of the total membership in the province which today (1971) stands at 4,500. 33. J. H. Lohrenz, op. cit., p. 193. 452 HISTORY OF THE MENNONITE BRETHREN CHURCH 34. Information found in Unruh, op. cit., J. H. Lohrenz, op. n't., and conference yearbooks. 35. Francis, op. cit., p. 212. 36. Except for a small group organized by the elder H. Voth in 1918 at Vanderhoof, B.C., which soon disbanded. 37. Yearbook (Candian Conference, 1936), pp. 101-102.