MHSA Archival Description Record
Title and Physical Description
Jacob D. Harder (1927-) Collection. -- 1897-2000. -- 11.5 cm of textual records
Administrative/Biographical History
Jacob D. Harder was born in 1927 to David and Helena (Toews) Harder. He married Hella Dahl in Didsbury, Alberta in 1949 and together they had three children: Leila (1952-1952), Leila Joy, and Rhonda Susan. Jacob was an educator who taught in one room country schools for the first five years followed by eleven years teaching Industrial Arts in Carstairs. He completed a B.Ed (1954), a Journeyman Carpenters Certificate (1960), a Journeyman Carpenters Certificate (1960), an M.Sc. from Oregon State University (1964), and a D.Ed (1970). His career continued in the education field where he was a Supervisor of Industrial Arts, High School Inspector, and Associate Director of Curriculum in the Alberta Department of Education. His leadership extended to the Mennonite community as well, where he contributed to the development of Camp Valaqua; introduction of Conference Sunday School materials to Alberta churches; the rebuilding of Menno Bible Institute (and its closing); serving on the Bergthal Mennonite Church Council, the Rosthern Junior College Board of Trustees, and chairing the Alberta Mennonite Conference and the Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta.
Custodial History
The records were donated to the MHSA in 2003 and 2011
Scope & Content
The fonds consist of records created by, about, or collected by Jacob D. Harder
Source of Supplied Title
Title based on the contents of the fonds
Source of Acquisition
Gift from Jacob D. Harder
Arrangement
According to date
Other Formats
"The Harders" is also available in cerlox binding in MHSA Library
Access Restrictions
None
Finding Aids
See Files Inventory
Accruals
Expected
Notes
Accession 2003.022, 2011.009
GRANDMA #423391
Last updated 10 Mar 2011 - Judith Rempel
Files Inventory
Box 1
1 - 1
Home Remedies - 1897
1 - 2 All Russia Central Committee - from Siberia - 1897
1 - 3 "Old Material" - Miscellaneous Lettes and Documents - 1897-1927
1 - 4 Letters from CD to Tina - 1936
1 - 5 Elder C.D. Harder Biography, 1866-1946 - 1940-1982
1 - 6 Bergthal Mennonite Church Minutes - 1957-1963
1 - 7 History of Bergthal Mennonite Church, 1964-1978 - 1964, 1978
1 - 8 Correspondence related to Harder Report, Dept of Education - 1970-1994
1 - 9 Jacob D. Harder - Alberta Report
- 1978
1 - 10 MHSA Correspondence - 1999-2000
1 - 11 Correspondence - 1999-2004
1 - 12 The Harders: The Chronicles of the David Harder Family manuscript - 2000
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