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Preservings is the Plett Foundation’s main publication and is aimed at a general audience.
The magazine is published annually and features a new theme each year. Contributors to the magazine come from a variety of backgrounds and include both academic and non-academic historians. Each issue of Preservings contains a variety of articles focused on the annual theme and other topics related to the Foundation’s mandate, family histories and biographies, and book reviews. The magazine is co-edited by John J. Friesen and Hans Werner.
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Preservings
Feature Articles:
‘Something…we had not seen nor heard of’: The 1873 Mennonite Delegation to Find Land in ‘America’
by Hans Werner, Winnipeg, Manitoba
The military reforms of the 1870s in Imperial Russia threatened the military exemption that… Read More
Why Emigrate?
by Ernest N. Braun, Niverville, Manitoba
With gratitude to Dr. James Urry for resource materials and revision, and to… Read More
Myth and History: The Story of William Hespeler’s Independent Role in the Immigration of Mennonites to Manitoba in the 1870s
by James Urry, Wellington, New Zealand
One of the stories often told of the Mennonite immigration to Manitoba in… Read More
Stuck in the Ice on Lake Superior
The sources for this example of the challenges of migration are a collection of… Read More