Pupils of Pine Grove School (Waterloo Township, SS 4, Pine Grove) outside of the school. Writing on slate says "Pinegrove 1940." The school was located near the junction of Highway 8 and Pioneer Tower Road. Bob Oberholtzer is holding the slate in front row. On another copy of the photograph (not kept), Bob notes that his great-grandfather, Abraham Oberholtzer, built the school in 1875.
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Cornelius C. and Eliesabeth Penner
Part of Cornelius C. and Eliesabeth Penner family photograph collection
Cornelius C. and Eliesabeth Penner in an orchard
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Penner field at Reesor, Ontario
Part of Cornelius C. and Eliesabeth Penner family photograph collection
Field on the Cornelius C. and Eliesabeth Penner farm
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Hauling pulpwood at Reesor, Ontario
Part of Cornelius C. and Eliesabeth Penner family photograph collection
Penner women with brother John's casket
Part of Cornelius C. and Eliesabeth Penner family photograph collection
Sister Elisabeth Penner and mother Eliesabeth Penner with an unidentified woman surround the casket of their brother and son John (Johann C.) Penner (1917-1941).
Part of Cornelius C. and Eliesabeth Penner family photograph collection
Elisabeth Penner, dressed in a traditional Germanic costume, poses with a dog
Part of Cornelius C. and Eliesabeth Penner family photograph collection
The barn Stanley Sauder worked on
Stanley Sauder did carpentry work on this barn on the Reid farm during an Alternative Service assignment
Sauder, Stanley
Alternative Service workers Irvin Bender (Baden, Ontario) and Orval Yantzi (New Hamburg, Ontario) with icicles. Date on back of photo is 1941, but they are on the list for the winter camp of 1942-1943.
Sauder, Stanley
Stanley Sauder and friends at camp
Alternative Service workers, including Stanley Sauder, pose for the camera inside a tent
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Gathering of Mennonite immgrants from the Soviet Union
Part of Lucy Braun photographs
An informal photograph of families gathered for a reunion. This is an event for 1960s immigrants from the Soviet Union to Canada, and their families. Caption on back, probably by Lucy Braun: "Von unserem Treffen im Herbst, 1969" (from our gathering in Autumn, 1969).
Terek Mennonite Settlement reunion
Part of Sarah Dyck photograph collection
A panoramic photograph of a reunion of former residents of the Terek Mennonite Settlement. The photo also includes some of their descendants.Written on back: "Terek Group? Picnic - Dunnville? Port Rowan? Fort William? mid/late 40's."
Information from Lois Siemens indicates this is the farm of Peter and Katharina (Nickel) Siemens. Katharina’s parents, Aron Nickel and Maria (Barkman) Nickel, moved to Terek #4 in 1903.
Brooks Studio (Brooks, Alberta)
Picnickers at Settlers Fork Park
Part of Mennonite Churches of Cambridge 200th Anniversary photograph album
Picnickers at Settlers Fork Park having lunch before the program. Caption in album reads: "Settlers Fork Park Sat Sept 16 Picnic of sausage, sauerkraut, apple, butter and bread."
Banquet at Fairview Home auditorium
Part of Mennonite Churches of Cambridge 200th Anniversary photograph album
Community members in attendance at the banquet and program in the Fairview Mennonite Home auditorium. Captions read: "The 200th Anniversary Banquet at Fairview Home Auditorium, Sept 15 2000" and "Mrs Milo [Laura] Shantz, Edna Becker, Henry Hagey, Donna Hagey, Harold and Lois Cressman, Sherwood Hagey."