Oral history projects are usually carried out through a grant or individual research project. They involve a series of interviews with persons on a particular theme. In some cases transcriptions are available; generally at least summaries of the interviews are also available. In some cases time or other restrictions have been placed on project tapes.
Other sound recordings have come to the Mennonite Archives of Ontario by a variety of means. Many were recorded by Conrad Grebel College in the course of its own programs. Some were donated by the creators of the recordings; a few were purchased. Copies of worship services have been solicited by the Archives from Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada congregations. The sound recordings are "unpublished" and are not commercially available. There are some anomalies in the numbering of the early series.
Sound recordings must be used at the Mennonite Archives of Ontario; they do not circulate. They cannot be routinely duplicated due to copyright regulations. Requests for copies will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. The recordings are on audio cassette tapes or compact disks unless otherwise noted.
Each oral history series listed below consists of one such project. Copies of oral history tapes will not be made unless copyright has been transferred to the Mennonite Archives of Ontario. The tapes must be listened to at the Archives.
Later oral history series may be composed of digital recordings in various formats.
Sound recordings gathered by the Mennonite Archives of Ontario are in ten series:
These are recordings from a variety of sources that are in shelflist order.
Last modified
07-Dec-2010
by Laureen Harder-Gissing