page_title: Mennonites
section_title: Canada
hierarchical_section_title: Mennonites / North America / Schools / Secondary schools / Canada
caption_attribution_description: English: Hinkletown, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Mennonite teacher holding class in one-room, eight grade school house.
context_page_description: The Mennonites are members of certain Christian groups belonging to the church communities of Anabaptist denominations named after Menno Simons of Friesland. Through his writings, Simons articulated and formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders. The early teachings of the Mennonites were founded on the belief in both the mission and ministry of Jesus, which the original Anabaptist followers held to with great conviction despite persecution by the various Roman Catholic and Protestant states. An early set of Mennonite beliefs was codified in the Dordrecht Confession of Faith in 1632, but the various groups do not hold to a common confession or creed. Rather than fight, the majority of these followers survived by fleeing to neighboring states where ruling families were tolerant of their belief in believer's baptism. Over the years, Mennonites have become known as one of the historic peace churches because of their commitment to pacifism.
  In contemporary 21st-century society, Mennonites are described either only as a religious denomination with members of different ethnic origins or as both an ethnic group and a religious denomination.
context_section_description: Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute, Winnipeg, Manitoba
  Mennonite Collegiate Institute, Gretna, Manitoba
  Mennonite Educational Institute, Abbotsford, British Columbia
  Rockway Mennonite Collegiate, Kitchener, Ontario
  Rosthern Junior College, Rosthern, Saskatchewan
  Steinbach Christian School, Steinbach, Manitoba
  Westgate Mennonite Collegiate, Winnipeg, Manitoba
caption: Mennonite teacher holding class in a one-room, eight-grade school house, Hinkletown, Pennsylvania, March 1942
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