• Museum CLOSED on Canada Day, Friday, July 1, 2022
• Regular Museum Hours Open Monday to Friday 10am to 3pm
• Join us for the Return Stroke Book Launch July 7, 2022 at 7pm
• MHM is the Venue for FOLK & FRIENDS a Calvin Dyck Concert; tickets through Eventbrite
  
• MCC BC QUILTERS Gallery Exhibit runs June 17 to September 2, 2022 Quilts For Sale
• Centenary Tour 100 Years; more details below
• Yarn & Garn Group meets Thursdays at 1:30pm in the Cafe, Bring a Friend
• Cafe DINE IN OPEN for Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays (& Fridays starting July 15)
  

• Scheduled Tours available in our Find Out Fridays Main Exhibit Tour Series extended; register now for a morning or an afternoon tour
• Summer Matinee Free Film Series on Wednesdays at 1pm. Register now.
  
• Volunteers Wanted!
• Photos from our last book launch ON HOLY GROUND
  

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YOU ARE INVITED! Bring your friends and family!

• REGISTER and your name will be entered for the draw for a chance to win a free copy of the book!
• Call 604-758-5667 to register.
• Let us know if you would like to reserve copies. (A 10% discount on the book on the day of the Book Launch).
• After hours, please leave a message with your name and number so that we can call you back to confirm your spot(s).
• Registration is not required, just encouraged.
  

This book is slated to be released in June of 2022.

These graceful, probing personal essays by award-winning fiction writer Dora Dueck engage with a diverse range of ideas (becoming a writer, motherhood, mortality, the ethics of biography, a child's coming-out) because in non-fiction, she writes, “the quest for meaning bows to the experience as it was.” Yet within Return Stroke, one theme in particular does resonate—change. “How wonderful,” the author writes, that our “bits of existence, no matter how ordinary, are available for further consideration—seeing patterns, facing into inevitable death, enjoying the playful circularity of then and now.”

The book’s title, Return Stroke—the title of one essay, where it literally refers to lightning—suggests such a dynamic: “When I send inquiry into my past, it sends something back to me.” The topic of memory, in all its malleability, impermanence, and surprising power, is especially central to the collection’s concluding piece, an absorbing memoir of the author’s 1980s life in the Paraguayan Chaco. Whether she is discovering the more meaningful part that imagination holds within her religious faith or relating with astonishing clarity and honesty the experience of giving birth away from her home country, Dora Dueck’s beautifully written essays and memoir make her an insightful and generous companion.

FOLK & FRIENDS Concert
Sunday, July 10th - Mennonite Heritage Museum, Abbotsford
String players from the Vancouver Island Symphony are thrilled to perform this folk music inspired programme in Abbotsford. Join the musicians in the robust music of Dvorak’s String Quintet No.2, Op.77 and Bartok’s Romanian Folk Dances. Two pieces rich in Bohemian, Slovak, Hungarian and Romanian folk music traditions. Come experience the composers and their travels through amazing lands and time. There will even be a few chances to sing along with the musicians on some familiar Canadian Folk tunes.

String Quintet:

• Calvin Dyck, Violin
• Alana Lopez, Violin
• Sevilya Hendrickx, Viola
• Alexandra Lee, Cello
• Mark Beaty, Double Bass

We gratefully acknowledge the support of Columbia Cabinets & Mennonite Heritage Museum.
Concert will take place on Sunday, July 10th at 7:00 pm at the Mennonite Heritage Museum (1818 Clearbrook Rd, Abbotsford)
Click on button below for tickets.

Relive Your History on a Cross-Canada Train Tour!

This three-part Russlaender Centenary Tour will re-enact the historic migration of 21,000 Mennonites from Russia to Canada beginning in 1923. With the help of established Mennonites, the migrants found new homes in Canada in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. This tour celebrates the faith of these newcomers, memorializes the challenges of resettlement, and acknowledges race and displacement in Canadian history.

For more information, click on the link below.

This is an informal group that meets in the cafe for coffee, crafts and camaraderie.

Come for a visit. Bring your crafts to work on. See you soon!

Joining for lunch at 12:30pm? Call ahead to let the cafe know: 604-758-5667.

Call 604-758-5667 to register.

Please feel free to leave a message after hours. Leave a message with your name and number so that we can call you back to confirm your spot.

Morning tour at 10:30am and afternoon tour at 1:30pm.

Looking forward to seeing you!

Drop by to check out our colours and sizes!

Click on each photo to see the full titles.

Editor Dora Dueck with contributors Bev Peters, Karen Heidebrecht Thiessen & Lorraine Dyck.

Increment 1: Museum Gift Shop and Exhibits will be open weekdays from 10am to 3pm.

Please check in at the front desk upon arrival.

The Museum is closed on all stat holidays, holiday weekends and for 4 weeks in Winter.

Increment 2: Café Dine Open Tuesday to Thursday

Increment 3: MHSBC Research Centre Open by Appointment Call Ahead 604-853-6177

Increment 4: Housebarn Exhibit (Upcoming Opening Date TBD)

In an effort to create the safest possible environment for all of our staff, volunteers, and guests, the Mennonite Heritage Museum and the Mennonite Historical Society of BC have ensured that all onsite staff and volunteers have been vaccinated for COVID-19.

We are committed to following the requirements of our British Columbia Provincial Government and our requirements of guests will adhere to current mandates which are outlined by Public Health Orders.

Please review our current protocols here: https://mennonitemuseum.org/visit/

Stay at home and plan to visit us at a later date if you are exhibiting any cold and/or flu-like symptoms or have recently been exposed to a communicable disease.

We appreciate everyone’s consideration, sensitivity, and compassion as we make our return to regular operations.

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/covid-19/info/restrictions

To book an in-person research assistance appointment/genealogy lookup, please email archives@mhsbc.com or call 604-853-6177.

For virtual tours, check out our youtube videos and channels:

• MHSBC Introductory Video with Jennifer Martens: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB87-Sa-T8DmyfVOcIjeTNQ/
• MHM Introductory Video with Jenny Bergen: https://youtu.be/C2TnhT5dLzs
• Presentation by Richard Thiessen: https://youtu.be/nXuVgWhu15g

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