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A lumber mill in Paraguay. Not found in CM.

CA MAO XV-19.3-1994-14-220
Item
1960

Part of The Canadian Mennonite photograph collection

A lumber mill in Paraguay. Not found in CM.

Unknown

A mobile saw in Zaire

CA MHC 280-23.0-001
Item
1977

Part of Mennonite Central Committee Photograph Collection

This is a photo of three men using a mobile saw, at Tshikapa, to cut a log. This is inexpensive and efficient for developing countries. Horizontal and vertical blades move on a frame while the log remains stationary. The saw is powered by a VW engine and pulled to the location by the pick-up truck.

Dyck, Ernest, 1922-2009

A portable saw

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-16
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Len Bechtel photograph collection

Alternative Service workers designing and testing a portable saw near Vancouver. The saw would be used to cut wood for the winter due to a fuel shortage. See Hist.Mss.22.1_1-15 to 19.

A portable saw

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-17
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Len Bechtel photograph collection

Alternative Service workers designing and testing a portable saw near Vancouver. The saw would be used to cut wood for the winter due to a fuel shortage. See Hist.Mss.22.1_1-15 to 19.

At the Heinrich saw mill

CA CMBS NP149-1-6051
Item
[195-?]

Part of MB Herald Photograph Collection

This photo is of a group of men standing around and on a flatbed truck with a large tree on it at Heinrich's sawmill.

Wiens, Frank J., 1913-2007

At the sawmill in La Crete

CA MAO XV-19.3-1994-14-1927
Item
1964

Part of The Canadian Mennonite photograph collection

Note on back: "At the sawmill." In La Crete. A man stands on 2 big logs.

Unknown

Brown and Rutherford Sawmill at Manigotogan

CA MHC PP-8 - Photo Col. 643-152.0
Item
1948

Part of Jacob M. Unrau fonds

This photo shows the dismantling of the Brown and Rutherford sawmill, which had been operated by steam power.

Cutting logs, Matheson Island

CA MHC 721-57-052
Item
[197-?]

Part of CMC Native Ministries Photograph Collection

Four men are using the sawmill to cut logs that will be used to build a house in Matheson Island.

Unknown...

Cutting lumber, Matheson Island

CA MHC 721-57-054
Item
[197-?]

Part of CMC Native Ministries Photograph Collection

Men are cutting and piling up lumber at the sawmill in Matheson Island, Manitoba.

Unknown...

Deteriorated saw mill at Pauingassi

CA MHC 721-56-116
Item
[199-?]

Part of CMC Native Ministries Photograph Collection

The old saw mill in Pauingassi, Manitoba. The mill was used by Mennonite Pioneer Mission and later Native Ministries for mission station construction projects.

Unknown...

Early sawing of planks

Part of Garden in the Wilderness photo collection (CMBC Publications)

This photo is of three Mennonite men sawing planks by hand used for construction in the early years of Mennonite settlement in the Paraguayan Chaco. In the 1930s, this technique of sawing was replaced by mechanized saws powered by steam or diesel. Used in the book" Garden in the Wilderness", by Edgar Stoesz p. 44.