Mennonite Archival Information Database

Albert Drudge and Lewis Reesor with axes

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.324/9-09
Item
[1941 or 1942]

Part of Alma and Lewis Reesor photographs

Albert Drudge and Lewis Reesor using axes at Montreal River

Unknown

Alternative Service workers at Montreal River

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.324/9-13
Item
[1941 or 1942]

Part of Alma and Lewis Reesor photographs

A group of Alternative Service workers at Montreal River. Left to right: possibly Leonard Burkholder, unknown, unknown, Joe Sherk, Leonard Ramer, Lewis Reesor, unknown, Lorne Wideman, unknown, unknown, unknown, Albert Drudge, unknown, unknown, Ross Wideman, unknown.

Unknown

Alternative Service workers digging on a hillside

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.343-04
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Jacob Neufeld photograph collection

Unknown

Alternative Service workers outside a tent at Montreal River

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.324/9-10
Item
[1941 or 1942]

Part of Alma and Lewis Reesor photographs

A group of Alternative Service workers at Montreal River. Written on the back of the photograph: "Ross Nigh, Albert Drudge, Lewis Reesor, Harold Cressman, Wilfred Atkison, Leonard Ramer."

Unknown

Alternative Service workers with horse teams

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.324/9-14
Item
[1941 or 1942]

Part of Alma and Lewis Reesor photographs

Six Alternative Service workers with three teams of horses. Howard Pollard is first from left, and Lewis Reesor is second from left. Melvin Baker is at far right. The others are not clearly identified.

Unknown

Boy with camp dogs pulling a sled

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.324/9-06
Item
[1941 or 1942]

Part of Alma and Lewis Reesor photographs

A boy and a man with three dogs, probably local people. The dogs are possibly Cub, Laddie, and Tuck, who frequented the camp.

Unknown

Bunk beds at Montreal River

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.343-06
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Jacob Neufeld photograph collection

Bunk beds and personal effects of Alternative Service workers at Montreal River

Unknown

Clearing snow off a camp building roof

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.343-05
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Jacob Neufeld photograph collection

Four Alternative Service workers clearing snow off a camp building roof

Unknown

Elmon Bender fonds

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.342
Fonds
1942-1943

Photographs of camp life and work at Montreal River Alternative Service work camp by conscientious objectors ("COs") during the winter of 1942-1943, a homemade calendar for 1942 featuring a picture of the camp, and a colourized photograph of the camp framed with birch bark.

Unknown