Mennonite Archival Information Database

Train stop along the way to British Columbia

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-4
Item
Jun 1942

Part of Len Bechtel photograph collection

Alternative Service workers on the train from Ontario to British Columbia in 1942 take some exercise at a stop.

Len Witmer in front of a locomotive

CA MAO Hist.Mss.137.6-003
Item
Jun 1942

Part of Fred Cressman photograph album

Len Witmer standing in front of a Canadian National Railway locomotive during his voyage to British Columbia. Caption in album reads: "Len Witmer in front of the Iron Horse." Caption on back of photo reads: "Len Witmer in front of CNR engine on way west; 6/42."

Conscientious objectors and families at a railway station

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-83
Item
1942

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

Possibly leaving for an Alternative Service assignment in British Columbia.

Aaron Janzen with his team of horses

CA MHC PP-14-Photo 088-240.0
Item
1944

Part of Peter J. Dyck (1878-1947) and John P. Dyck (1901-1990) family fonds

This photo shows Aaron Janzen posing between his two horses, with the barn and a spruce forest in the background.

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.

Group of conscientious objectors to war

CA MHC 460-1.0
Item
[between 1941-1945?]

Part of Gerhard Ens Alternative Service Photograph

A group of 27 men assembled in forested area in the wintertime.

Unknown

Group of Mennonite and Hutterite Conscientious Objectors to War

CA MHC PP-14-Photo 088-226.0
Item
[between 1940 and 1945]

Part of Peter J. Dyck (1878-1947) and John P. Dyck (1901-1990) family fonds

This photo shows: Front row (l-r), ? Dyck, ? Waldner (Hutterite), Jake Loewen (Gretna); Back row, ? (a Hutterite), Ed Buhr, Jake Heinrichs (Altona), Dave Hofer (Hutterite), Walter Klippenstein.

Removing a stump

CA MHC PP-14-Photo 088-231.0
Item
[between 1941 and 1945]

Part of Peter J. Dyck (1878-1947) and John P. Dyck (1901-1990) family fonds

This photo shows Andrew H. Braun (Morris) driving the caterpillar with Isaac Derksen (Altona) and George Harms (Winkler) watching.

A bush crew

CA MHC PP-14-Photo 088-233.0
Item
[between 1940 and 1945]

Part of Peter J. Dyck (1878-1947) and John P. Dyck (1901-1990) family fonds

This photo shows nine men sitting on a pile of logs. Some of the men include Bill Wiebe (Winnipeg), Lincoln Penner (Lorette), John Plett (Ste. Anne), and George Harms (Winkler) (not specifically identified).

C.O.'s making music

CA MHC PP-14-Photo 088-261.0
Item
[between 1940 and 1945]

Part of Peter J. Dyck (1878-1947) and John P. Dyck (1901-1990) family fonds

This photo shows six men with their musical instruments sitting on a stack of lumber. The instruments include a mandolin, two guitars, two accordions and one violin. Left to right, John Reimer, John Doerksen, Charlie Wiebe, John Schmidt, ? Hamm, Ernie Neufeld.