Historian.
Born at Lena on 25 May 1929, he studied at the Canadian Mennonite Bible College, completing a Bachelor of Theology degree in 1953. He received a BA degree from Bethel College at Newton, Kansas (1956), and attended graduate school at the University of Minnesota (1959-1965).
He was the founding Editor of The Canadian Mennonite and The Canadian Mennonite Reporter. He was President of Conrad Grebel College and University of Waterloo, and served as an advisor to Canadian Immigration and the Mennonite Central Committee. His published books include Mennonite Exodus: The Rescue and Resettlement of the Russian Mennonites since the Communist Revolution (1962) and Mennonites in Canada, Volume 1: The History of a Separate People (1974).
He died at Kitchener, Ontario in 1986. A collection of his papers is held by the Mennonite Archives of Ontario.
Historical Atlas of the East Reserve edited by Ernest N. Braun and Glen R. Klassen, Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society, 2015, page 72.
Frank H. Epp, Mennonite Archives of Ontario.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 18 November 2022
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