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The Amish of Canada settled in southwestern Ontario, having come from the United States in 1815 and directly from Europe in 1822. They numbered about 1,000 people in 1991. [1] Today, the Canadian Amish population exceeds 6,000 people, living in 20 different communities. [2] Rising land prices are causing some Amish families to leave Ontario. [3]
The Markham-Waterloo Mennonite Conference (MWMC) is a Canadian, progressive Old Order Mennonite church established in 1939 in Ontario, Canada. [1] It has its roots in the Old Order Mennonite Conference in Markham, Ontario, and in what is now called the Regional Municipality of Waterloo.
When other bodies arriving in Canada began to settle outside this "central" base, the name was changed to the General Conference of Mennonites in Canada in 1932 (later the Conference of Mennonites in Canada). The Ontario Amish Mennonite Conference (later Western Ontario Mennonite Conference) was founded in 1923, and the Conference of United ...
Sep. 16—ELKHART — Mennonite Mission Network and Mennonite Women USA will explore issues of diversity, equity and inclusion during the 2022 "Leaders Inspiring Leaders: Women of Faith Conference ...
Epp, Marlene Mennonites in Ontario. Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario, 2012. ISBN 0969604637; Epp, Marlene Mennonite Women in Canada: A History (Winnipeg, University of Manitoba Press, 2008. xiii + 378 pp.) ISBN 9780887551826; Epp, Marlene Women without Men: Mennonite Refugees of the Second World War. University of Toronto Press, 2000.
INTERVIEW: The Canadian author tells Helen Brown about how two devastating family suicides informed her latest novel, ‘Fight Night’, and what the Mennonite community made of the Oscar-winning ...
Women Talking is based on a true story, one that was fictionalized by author Miriam Toews. Toews herself was born in a Mennonite community in Canada; she left when she turned 18.
MB Seminary exists to educate and equip men and women to help lead the church in reaching Canada and beyond with the Good News of Jesus Christ. MB Seminary is a Canadian ministry with an international reach, and a Mennonite Brethren ministry with multi-denominational relationships.