Conscientious objectors

Alternative Service workers building a road

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-2_10
Item
1942-6

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album reads: "Tearing up an old logging path and building a new one."

Alternative Service workers enter the camp dining hall

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-2_6
Item
1942-6

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album reads: "Dinner - Roast pork, potatoes, lettuce, carrots, pie, tea, etc, etc."

Boys at Seymour Camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-2_3
Item
Jun 1942

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption reads: "Boys at Seymour Camp near Dollarton, ten miles to Vancouver." Jessie B. Martin is standing at front, far right in plain coat.

Cabins and men at Seymour camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-2_5
Item
1942-6

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album reads: "The home of the boys. Four men in a building. No electric lights. Coal oil lamps."

Cabins at the Seymour Camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-2_16
Item
1942-6

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

A row of cabins at the Seymour camp. Caption in album reads: "Huts."

Cabins at the Seymour camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-2_18
Item
1942-6

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

"Huts" for Alternative Service workers at the Seymour camp. Sign in front says "Mount Seymour Park."

Conscientious objectors on fire drill in British Columbia

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.282.3-4
Item
[between 1942 and 1943]

Part of Harold Schmidt photograph collection

Note on back of photo: "The boys on fire drill; each fellow has his job in this work." Conscientious objectors on fire drill in Seymour Mountain Camp in British Columbia.

Cook at Seymour Mountain Alternative Service Camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.282.3-13
Item
[between 1942 and 1943]

Part of Harold Schmidt photograph collection

Note on photograph: "The cook with a fresh cod fish." Cook at the Seymour Mountain Park Camp.

Cutting down snags

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-2_11
Item
1942-6

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album reads: "The dead trees are called 'snags.' If they catch fire the wind [illegible words] the sparks. Cutting down snags is [illegible words]."

Group picture at Seymour Mountain Alternative Service Camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.282.3-7
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Harold Schmidt photograph collection

Group picture of conscientious objectors leaving Seymour Mountain Alternative Service Work Camp (Dollarton, British Columbia).

Harold J. Schmidt and Friend

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.282.3-11
Item
1942

Part of Harold Schmidt photograph collection

Harold j. Schmidt (front) and friend at British Columbia, probably at the Seymour Mountain Alternative Service Camp.

Harold J. Schmidt at Mount Seymour Park

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.282.3-12
Item
[between 1942 and 1943]

Part of Harold Schmidt photograph collection

Harold J. Schmidt posing with the sign at the Mount Seymour Park Alternative Service Camp in British Columbia.

Harold J. Schmidt in British Columbia

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.282.3-3
Item
1942

Part of Harold Schmidt photograph collection

Harold J. Schmidt wearing a cook's hat while serving in Alternative Service in British Columbia.

Jesse B. Martin outside "place of worship"

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-2_13
Item
1942-6

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album reads: "Place of worship." Jesse B. Martin stands in the doorway of a camp building.

Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2
File
[between 1941 and 1944]

Contains four photograph albums of Alternative Service camps. Photographs were taken or collected by Jesse B. Martin. A sample of photographs from these albums is described in the database. For the complete albums, see Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2 at the Mennonite Archives of Ontario.

Martin, J. B. ( Jesse Bauman), 1897-1974

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