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Amish/Mennonite Community, Aylmer - Auction Sale
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1968
- Accession Number
- 2008-01
- Storage Location
- C9 Sh1 B1 F7 1
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds
- Creator
- St. Thomas Times-Journal
- Description Level
- File
- Accession Number
- 2008-01
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 105
- Storage Location
- C9 Sh1 B1 F7 1
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1968
- Series
- St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds - Amish/Mennonite Community, Aylmer file
- Physical Description
- 6 photographs : b&w ; 14 x 18.5 cm or smaller
- Scope and Content
- Four black and white photographs used and two black and white photographs not used in St. Thomas Times-Journal article published November 15, 1968 with captions:
- "Head for Honduras - Peter Stoll, 56, of Con. 8, Malahide Township sold all his belongings yesterday at public auction. The Mennonite family will leave next week for Honduras, where they plan to establish a new home. Mr. Stoll said he and his family are leaving Canada because of government socialistic measures such as the Canada pension plan and medicare, to which Mennonites object." (1a)
- "Mennonite Bishop - Peter Yoder of Con. 8, Malahide Township, was one of several Mennonites to attend an auction sale at the farm of Peter Stoll, Con. 8, Malahide Township yesteday. Mr. Stoll and his family sold their farm and belongings in preparation for a trip to Honduras, where the Mennonite family plans to settle. Mr. Yoder is bishop of the Mennonite Community east of Aylmer." (1b)
- "Auction Sale - Auctioneers Less Shackleton (left) and Hugh Filson sold all the belongings of two Aylmer area Mennonite families yesterday. The families of Peter Stoll and his son Alva, Con. 8, Malahide Township, will make the 3,000-mile journey to Honduras in Latin America next week, where they plan to settle. Peter Stoll said he and his family hope to help the people of Honduras make a better living." (1c)
- "Mennonite Women - Two unidentified Mennonite women and a child are shown examining some of the clothing auctioned yesterday at the farm of Peter Stoll, Con. 8, Malahide Township. Mr. Stoll, a Mennonite, and his family sold all their belongings by auction and plan to move to Honduras to start a new life. Mr. Stoll said he is unhappy with the Canadian government's socialistic measures, such as the Canada pension plan and medicare." (1d)
- Images 1e and 1f, not used, show members of the Aylmer-area Mennonite community at an auction sale at the farm of Peter Stoll, Concession 8, Malahide Township.
- Name Access
- St. Thomas (Ont.)
- St. Thomas Times-Journal
- Subject Access
- Newspapers
- Churches
- Religion
- Amish
- Mennonites
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