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Caption on back reads: "Where M.P.M. is building station. A house on the Bloodvein Indian Reserve. It appears to be a good size. However at the time I visited the large part was not in use at all due to a need of repairs. A family of five were living in the small right section of the house.. Miss Helen Willms, Matheson Island." Used in CM 3-44-1. See also CM 7-16-6.

An Indigenous man stands in front of a log house in winter. Three children are also visible in the photograph. Perhaps this is a newly built home for a family. CM 7-16-7 has an article about Henry Neufeld's task of assisting people to build better houses. Probable location is Pauingassi, Manitoba. Negative also.

Negative also. Used in CM 7-16-5 & CM 8-21-4. A Sunday evening audience of adults & children in Pauingassi where Henry & Elna Neufeld of MPM were stationed. Smaller photo (9x6.5) also.

Mennonite Pioneer Mission worker Abe Hoeppner (left) with an arm around a friend. Location is likely Bloodvein, Manitoba, where Abe served with MPM.

Alfred Cook of Bloodvein, Manitoba shakes hands with two men. The man on the right wearing a jacket with indigenous decorations on it is Mennonite Pioneer Mission missionary Edwin Brandt.

This photo shows an old building near Creel, Mexico, where Mennonite Pioneer Mission began. The building might be an old school building.

The woman in the photo is likely either Madeline McKay or Madeline Ross. Location is Cross Lake, Manitoba.

Negs only, 2. Anne Giesbrecht? (left), secretary of the Canadian Mennonite Youth Organization, hands a cheque to H. J. Gerbrandt (right), executive officer of Mennonite Pioneer Mission. The CMYO raised money to build a mission chapel at Cross Lake, Manitoba for MPM. See CM articles: 4-30-7, 5-27-4, 5-41-5

Caption reads: The mission house (left and the chapel (right) of the Mennonite Pioneer Mission at the Bloodvein Indian Reservation. Erdman Neufeld's, missionaries.

This photo shows a person walking across a narrow bridge made of several wooden planks in Loon Straits, Manitoba.
"There were a number of points in Loon Straits where the dwellings were separated by low-lying swampy areas that easily flooded when Lake Winnipeg levels rose and this is one of those."

Used in the CM 3-47-6. This Bell-Saw had been shipped to Pauingassi to faciliate building a school & residence for the MPM. See 14.2995.

A Board of Missions board member reading at a desk.

A member on the Board of Missions.

A Board of Missions meeting.