Mennonite Archival Information Database

Sign for camp Q-3

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-43
Item
[between 1942 and 1944]

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

Sign for British Columbia Forestry Service camp Q-3 (Quinsam District)

Young men and families at a railway station

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-84
Item
[between 1941 and 1944]

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

Possibly conscientious objectors leaving for an Alternative Service assignment in British Columbia.

Camp Q-3, Lower Campbell Lake

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-44
Item
[between 1942 and 1944]

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

A view of Camp Q-3 showing wooden buildings, tents and the land beyond

Tents at Camp Q-3

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-46
Item
[between 1942 and 1944]

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

A row of tents at camp Q-3.

Unidentified man holding signs

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-47
Item
[between 1942 and 1944]

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

An unidentified man holding signs that read "Private Road: B.C. Forest Service."

Forest Nursery sign

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-48
Item
[between 1942 and 1944]

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

Sign reads: "British Columbia Forest Service: Forest Nursery." This is the sign to the Green Timbers Forestry Station, a tree nursery. Alternative Service workers reported here to the "manning depot" before being assigned to one of the forestry camps.

Wes Brown photograph album

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3
File
1941-1944

Album contains photographs taken or collected by Brown during his time as a conscientious objector in the Alternative Service program in Ontario and British Columbia.

Brown, Wes

Two unidentified men at camp Q-3

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-45
Item
[between 1942 and 1944]

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

Two unidentified men hold a sign reading "Camp Q-3" with tents in the background

Alternative Service workers planting trees

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-20
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

This photo is of Alternative Service worker Helmut P. Neufeld carrying a pack of lunch boxes and holding an axe, getting directions from foreman Peter Wolfe as they stand in an area where seedlings are to be planted after the 1938 Sayward forest Fire on Vancouver Island.

Printing The Northern Beacon

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-11
Item
1942

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

Two Alternative Service men use a duplication machine to run off copies of The Northern Beacon, the periodical of the Montreal River Alternative Service camp.

Typing and printing The Northern Beacon

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-12
Item
1942

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

An Alternative Service Worker types copy for The Northern Beacon. A duplication machine sits on the table in front of his typewriter.

"Tuck" dressed in a parka

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-30
Item
1942

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

Alternative Service workers with their dog "Tuck" dressed up in a parka.

Len Markwell

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-34
Item
1942

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

Len Markwell writes in his bunk at the Montreal River camp. Caption in album reads: "Len 'Rabbi' Markwell." An "L. Markwell" from Oshawa, Ontario is listed as a conscientious objector in A.J. Klassen's <i>Alternative Service for Peace</i>.

Lighthouse at Coppermine Point

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-39
Item
1942

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

Lighthouse at Coppermine Point, Ontario, taken on an excursion by conscientious objectors from the Montreal River camp. See also Hist.Mss.1.202.3.38-42.

On the road from Montreal River to Coppermine Point

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-41
Item
1942

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

A view of the road from the Montreal River work camp to Coppermine Point. See also Hist.Mss.1.202.3, 38-42.

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