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The D.F. Plett Historical Research Foundation, Inc. is a not-for-profit private charity founded in 1996 to support and promote projects related to the cultural background, the migration and settlement, and descendant communities of the conservative Mennonites who came to Manitoba from Imperial Russia in the 1870s.
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March 23, 2009

Family History Day and MMHS Annual Meeting

A Family History Day, presentation by author of a new Steinbach history and the MMHS annual meeting to be held…
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February 2, 2009

2nd Printing of David Quiring’s Mennonite Old Colony Vision

Due to the level of interest in David Quiring’s Mennonite Old Colony Vision, the Foundation has reprinted the popular history of…
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November 10, 2008

Plett Foundation Opens Offices at the University of Winnipeg

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – MONDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2008 The remarkable legacy of Delbert F. Plett, a prominent Steinbach lawyer who…
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