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Canadian Conference Yearbooks

Description

Early on in their formation, Mennonite Brethren adopted the practice of an annual convention, a meeting where churches sent delegates to debate resolutions, to report on the work of various committees and ministries, and to decide together on certain courses of action. The evidence points to the influence of a German Baptist minister named August G.A. Liebig (1836–1914) who was invited in 1866 to come for several weeks to help bring order to early turbulence of the young Mennonite renewal movement (Brudergemeinde).

In 1871, Liebig came again and spent a whole year among the Mennonite Brethren in Ukraine. As a result, in 1872, the Mennonite Brethren were the first of the Mennonite groups to organize into a conference with annual conventions, a practice that continued as Mennonite Brethren conferences were formed in other countries.

A Conference Yearbook is the publication documenting the annual proceedings of the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches, which began in 1910 as one of the "districts" (i.e., the Northern District) of the General Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Church of North America (est. 1879 in Henderson, Nebraska, and incorporated in 1900). In 1946, the Northern District became known as the Canadian Conference.

The Yearbook contains ministry reports, financial statements and budgets, election slates of officers, resolutions, and minutes of the business sessions. Starting in 1994, the Yearbook was published in even-numbered years, following the summer convention termed a "Gathering." The 1994 and subsequent Yearbooks include the reports for the annual meetings of both the odd and even years. In 2021, the summer convention was renamed the "National Assembly" and returned to an annual gathering.

Below is a listing of the convention Yearbooks with links to their digital reproductions.

Files

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Name Size
Name Size
1910 CCMBC Yearbook 3.3 MB
1911 CCMBC Yearbook 3.8 MB
1912 CCMBC Yearbook 4.4 MB
2023 CCMBC Yearbook 4.9 MB
1916 CCMBC Yearbook 5.5 MB
2022 CCMBC Yearbook 5.7 MB
1919 CCMBC Yearbook 5.7 MB
2010 CCMBC Yearbook 5.9 MB
1914 CCMBC Yearbook 6.5 MB
1930 CCMBC Yearbook 6.5 MB
1915 CCMBC Yearbook 6.6 MB
2000 CCMBC Yearbook 6.8 MB
2018 CCMBC Yearbook 7.1 MB
2016 CCMBC Yearbook 7.3 MB
1920 CCMBC Yearbook 7.4 MB
1921 CCMBC Yearbook 7.5 MB
2008 CCMBC Yearbook 7.5 MB
1917 CCMBC Yearbook 7.6 MB
1918 CCMBC Yearbook 7.8 MB
2021 CCMBC Yearbook 7.9 MB
2019 CCMBC Yearbook 8.8 MB
2006 CCMBC Yearbook 9.0 MB
2014 CCMBC Yearbook 9.1 MB
1923 CCMBC Yearbook 9.2 MB
1998 CCMBC Yearbook 9.2 MB
1950 CCMBC Yearbook Translated 9.3 MB
1924 CCMBC Yearbook 9.4 MB
1926 CCMBC Yearbook 10.2 MB
1927 CCMBC Yearbook 10.2 MB
1913 CCMBC Yearbook 10.3 MB
1922 CCMBC Yearbook 10.3 MB
1996 CCMBC Yearbook 10.3 MB
1992 CCMBC Yearbook 11.8 MB
1991 CCMBC Yearbook 11.8 MB
2002 CCMBC Yearbook 11.8 MB
1988 CCMBC Yearbook 11.9 MB
1994 CCMBC Yearbook 12.5 MB
1990 CCMBC Yearbook 13.0 MB
2024 CCMBC Yearbook 13.2 MB
2004 CCMBC Yearbook 13.3 MB
1928 CCMBC Yearbook 13.8 MB
1931 CCMBC Yearbook 14.0 MB
2012 CCMBC Yearbook 15.6 MB
1932 CCMBC Yearbook 17.8 MB
1929 CCMBC Yearbook 18.3 MB
1925 CCMBC Yearbook 18.4 MB
1985 CCMBC Yearbook 21.8 MB
1984 CCMBC Yearbook 23.3 MB
1989 CCMBC Yearbook 23.9 MB
1971 CCMBC Yearbook 24.5 MB
1941 CCMBC Yearbook 24.6 MB
1935 CCMBC Yearbook 24.8 MB
1938 CCMBC Yearbook 24.9 MB
1973 CCMBC Yearbook 25.4 MB
1942 CCMBC Yearbook 27.4 MB
1986 CCMBC Yearbook 27.6 MB
1943 CCMBC Yearbook 28.0 MB
1939 CCMBC Yearbook 28.4 MB
1976 CCMBC Yearbook 29.0 MB
1974 CCMBC Yearbook 29.6 MB
1933 CCMBC Yearbook 29.8 MB
1934 CCMBC Yearbook 30.3 MB
1937 CCMBC Yearbook 30.9 MB
1944 CCMBC Yearbook 31.0 MB
1977 CCMBC Yearbook 31.5 MB
1964 CCMBC Yearbook 32.2 MB
1975 CCMBC Yearbook 33.0 MB
1979 CCMBC Yearbook 33.1 MB
1963 CCMBC Yearbook 33.7 MB
1966 CCMBC Yearbook 33.9 MB
1978 CCMBC Yearbook 35.2 MB
1967 CCMBC Yearbook 35.3 MB
1987 CCMBC Yearbook 35.3 MB
1968 CCMBC Yearbook 36.3 MB
1983 CCMBC Yearbook 36.3 MB
1936 CCMBC Yearbook 36.4 MB
1980 CCMBC Yearbook 37.6 MB
1970 CCMBC Yearbook 38.3 MB
1965 CCMBC Yearbook 38.8 MB
1969 CCMBC Yearbook 38.9 MB
1982 CCMBC Yearbook 39.1 MB
2020 CCMBC Yearbook 40.4 MB
1981 CCMBC Yearbook 41.1 MB
1949 CCMBC Yearbook 44.8 MB
1951 CCMBC Yearbook 47.2 MB
1945 CCMBC Yearbook 50.1 MB
1960 CCMBC Yearbook 51.8 MB
1959 CCMBC Yearbook 52.7 MB
1948 CCMBC Yearbook 56.1 MB
1953 CCMBC Yearbook 56.5 MB
1961 CCMBC Yearbook 58.1 MB
1962 CCMBC Yearbook 62.9 MB
1946 CCMBC Yearbook 70.1 MB
1954 CCMBC Yearbook 70.6 MB
1957 CCMBC Yearbook 72.2 MB
1952 CCMBC Yearbook 74.3 MB
1947 CCMBC Yearbook 76.0 MB
1955 CCMBC Yearbook 78.3 MB
1958 CCMBC Yearbook 79.9 MB
1956 CCMBC Yearbook 81.9 MB

 

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