Providence University College and Seminary

Collection Size: 
2300
Address: 
Otterburne, Manitoba
State/Province: 
Manitoba
Email/Contact Person: 
Department of Music
Languages: 
English, German, Spanish, Chinese, Chipewyan, Cree, Duoluo, Dutch, French, Gikuyu, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Igbo, Japanese, Kikuyu, Kisii, Latin, Low German, Maasai, Nupe, Pachashulasheneka, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Neo-Melanesian, Swahili,

The personal collection of Don Thiessen, numbering around 2,300 items, was donated to the music department of Providence University College and Seminary in 2018 and put into storage. The music program has since been discontinued. The collection includes hymnals from a large variety of denominations and publishing companies dating from c. 1850 to the present. The majority are English (about 2000), about 250 in German and the rest in about 30 other languages. Included are conventional hymnals as well as smaller pamphlets used for congregational singing.