Winnipeg Free Press
Manitoba Mennonites ancestors benefited from immunizations 200 years ago
RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
Archivist Conrad Stoesz holds a microfiche with a list of Mennonites inoculated against smallpox 200 years ago.
For a Winnipeg archivist, a bold move by an 18th-century Russian empress makes a strong case for people to get vaccinated during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
For a Winnipeg archivist, a bold move by an 18th-century Russian empress makes a strong case for people to get vaccinated during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Conrad Stoesz was reading about the efforts of Catherine the Great of Russia to protect her country against smallpox when he realized her connection to 200-year-old immunization records of Mennonite children held at Mennonite Heritage Archives at Canadian Mennonite University.
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