Canadian Board of Colonization Records

The Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization index on the MHSA website is new and improved - after a GREAT DEAL of work by Al Rempel and myself.

The last version had many typos in it and hundreds of of missing household heads.  So if you looked and could not find someone, this is the time to look again. 

Because of increasing concerns with protecting privacy and minimizing the risk of identity theft, we have removed the record images from the website.  But, this doesn't inhibit us from making individual records available to specific researchers.

Because we have spent so much time organizing not only the index but the images as well, and it takes time to retrieve them - the board has given us direction to collect a $10 search fee for every successful record that we find and deliver by e-mail attachment. 

If you come to the MHSA and do your own searching (we'll give you tips), there will only be photocopying charges (.25/sheet).

Now - if you're still stymied by the index.  You just KNOW your family arrived in Canada between 1923-30, we have other indexing tools that are still in development that allow me to dig deeper than the online index.  Let me know who you're looking for and we may be able to find that wife, daughter, son, or great grand uncle who came with an unknown household head. 

In kinship,
Judii