Collection search - North American Baptist Immigration and Colonization Society fonds [textual record]
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North American Baptist Immigration and Colonization Society fonds [textual record]
Hierarchical level:FondsContext of this record:Fonds includes:14 lower level description(s)View lower level description(s) -
Finding aid Textual records: (Paper) The finding aid is primarily a list of file titles. Variations in this are found in the financial records, where file cards are grouped in alphabetical order in groupings which had been established by the organization. In part M of the finding aid, all individuals or families contacted by the Baptist immigration societies are listed. In this case, the finding aid indicates what names are to be found in each file. MSS1421Textual records: (Electronic) Finding aid. MSS1421
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Record information North American Baptist Immigration and Colonization Society fonds [textual record]
Date:1926-1980.Reference:R3718-0-0-E, MG28-V18Type of material:Textual materialFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:105687Date(s):1926-1980.Place of creation:ManitobaExtent:9.11 m of textual records.Language of material:EnglishAdded language of material:English, GermanScope and content:Fonds consists of minutes, reports, correspondence, financial records, immigrant case files and related material.Biography/Administrative history:North American Baptist Immigration and Colonization Society : German Canadian Baptists became active in immigration work in 1925 with the organization of the German Baptist Immigration and Colonization Society. Co-operating with both the C.P.R. and the C.N.R., the association was active in finding a new home for thousands of the German-speaking Baptists, who fled the political upheavals of Eastern Europe to find temporary refuge in refugee camps in Germany. With the onset of the Depression, this organization ceased its activities.
World War II had scarcely ended when German Baptist churches in Canada became active in relief work in Germany, in particular among the several million German-speaking refugees and expellees, who were crowding the refugee camps of Germany and Austria. The relief work had just begun, when it was decided by German Canadian Baptists that the best way to resolve Germany's overpopulation problem was through emigration. With this end in mind, the Canadian Farm Aid and Settlement Association was established, largely at the behest of Wm. Sturhahn and H. Streuber, two Manitobans active in relief work in Germany. The association, however, was hampered from the beginning by its lack of financial resources and did little more than lay out a strategy for an immigration program.
In 1950, the Relief Committee of the Baptist World Alliance, in co-operation with the World Council of Churches, undertook to support the immigration work of German Canadian Baptists. To carry out this work Baptist World Alliance Immigration was organized, with its headquarters in Winnipeg and an office in Stuttgart which served largely to process immigrants. Immigration work continued to be carried on under the name Baptist World Alliance Immigration until January, 1954, when this organization disappeared in name as well as in fact. The North American Baptist Immigration and Colonization Society (1953-1980) then took direct responsibility for German Canadian Baptist immigration work.
Baptist World Alliance Immigration and the North American Baptist Immigration and Colonization Society were essentially the same organization with a different name. Both had their head office in Winnipeg, with William Sturhahn as secretary responsible for the overall planning of the immigration work.Additional information:General note:Received in 1975 from the North American Baptist Immigration and Colonization Society through the courtesy of Wm. Sturhahn of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and in 1990, from Donald Streuber of Winnipeg.Arrangement note:The material is arranged in chronological order by subject or document type.Language note:About one quarter of the material is in the German language.Accruals:No further accruals are expected.Subject heading:- Germany - Emigration and immigration, n.d., 1930-1975 Canadian Welfare Council, 1957-1958
- German settlement - Canada, n.d., 1930-1975 600 Farm Family Scheme, n.d., 1953
- Church work with immigrants, n.d., 1930-1975 Baptist Labor Scheme, n.d., 1951-1952
- Baptists, German - Canada, n.d., 1930-1975 Canadian Christian Council for the Resettlement of Refugees. Bremen-Lesum Camp, n.d., 1955-1957, 1960
- Baptists associations - North America, n.d., 1930-1975 Sugar Beet Labor Movement, n.d., 1951-1956
- Baptists - Societies, etc., n.d., 1930-1975 Assisted Passenger Scheme, n.d., 1951-1956
- Church work with immigrants - Baptists, n.d., 1930-1975 Baptist World Alliance Immigration, 1952-1954
- Germans - Canada, n.d., 1930-1975 German Baptist Immigration and Colonization Society, 1954
- Canadians - Foreign countries, n.d., 1930-1975 Canadian Christian Council for the Resettlement of Refugees, n.d., 1947-1951, 1957
- Emigration and immigration - Baptists, n.d., 1930-1975 Canada. Dept. of Employment and Immigration, 1947, 1949-1954, 1960
- Immigration agencies - Canada, n.d., 1930-1975
- Immigration agencies - Germany, n.d., 1930-1975
- Refugees, Political, n.d., 1930-1975
- Refugee camps - Germany, n.d., 1930-1975
- Edenvale (B.C.) - Baptists, n.d
- Hungarians - Canada, n.d., 1956-1957
- Hungary - Emigration and immigration, n.d., 1956-1957
- Russia - Emigration and immigration, n.d., 1956-1957
- Canada - Emigration and immigration, n.d., 1953-1971
- Canada - Emigration and immigration - Government policy, 1952-1967
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