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Born in New York City on 1 December 1851, Martel and his wife Theresa had three children, all of whom worked with him in the photography business: Isabel Martel (1872-?), William Angus Martel (1875-1958), and Frank A. Martel (1881-?). From January to March 1897, the Martels were at Revelstoke, British Columbia. Around 1898, they came to Manitoba and established a photography business at Brandon, with a satellite studio at Morden, relocating later to Winnipeg. They eventually moved to Los Angeles, California where his son opened a studio. He died there on 3 October 1915. Credit to the Manitoba Historical Society for this information.

The Conference of Mennonites in Canada Mission Board supported a church planting in Martensville beginning in the late 1950s. In 1960 a congregation was formed named the Martensville Mennonite Mission Church. It grew steadily. The membership was 32 in 1966. By 1980 it had reached 106. It became the Martensville Mennonite Church in 1986. In 1990 the membership stood at 127 when it decided to withdraw from the Mennonite conference.

Martins Mennonite Church, with its meetinghouse in east central Wayne County, Ohio, about southeast of Orrville, was founded by Lancaster County Mennonites in 1834. William Westheffer and Henry Martin were the first ministers. The congregation erected a log meetinghouse in 1835. Being rather conservative, the congregation did not organize a Sunday school until 1880. The congregation had 197 members in 1955, with Stanford Mumaw as pastor. In 2006 the membership was 182, with Randy B. Murray as Pastor. Martins is a member of the Ohio Conference of Mennonite Church USA.

Earlier the Pleasant View and Martins congregations were counted in a sense as one congregation with alternating services in the two meetinghouses but a joint ministry. In 1930 the connection severed and each became a fully independent congregation. The Wisler schism of 1873 cost heavily in membership at both Martins and Pleasant View, the County Line-Chestnut Ridge Old Order Mennonite congregation having been formed from this schism.