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The barn Stanley Sauder worked on

CA MAO 2015-1-63
Item
[between 1943 and 1946]

Stanley Sauder did carpentry work on this barn on the Reid farm during an Alternative Service assignment

Sauder, Stanley

Stanley Sauder in bunk at Montreal River camp

CA MAO 2015-1-65
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Unknown

Irvin Bender and Orval Yantzi

CA MAO 2015-1-74
Item
[1942 or 1943]

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

CA MAO 2015-1-75
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Alternative Service workers, including Stanley Sauder, pose for the camera inside a tent

Unknown

Visiting minister with the Quartet

CA CMBS NP145-1-3
Item
[ca. 1943].

Part of Katie Funk Wiebe Photo Collection

This photo is of two ministers with 4 conscientious objectors who formed a music quartet at the Nanaimo Lakes camp. From left to right is Mennonite Brethren minister J.A. Toews, ?, David Balzer, Bill Funston, Frank C. Peters, Jake Balzer.

Unknown

Lumber

CA CMBS NP198-3-19
Item
[1941-1945].

Part of David Voth Photograph Collection

This photo is of a stack of lumber that is covered with snow at an alternative service camp where conscientious objectors worked in the Second World War.

Driving the tractor

CA CMBS NP198-3-21
Item
[1941-1945].

Part of David Voth Photograph Collection

This photo is of an old open air tractor with caterpillar tracks working in an alternative service camp. A conscientious objector is sitting in the driver's seat. The tractor appears to be hooked up to a trailer. The landscape is covered in snow.

Tractor

CA CMBS NP198-3-22
Item
[1941-1945].

Part of David Voth Photograph Collection

This photo is of a conscientious objector sitting on an open air tractor with caterpillar tracks, hooked up to a trailer. The man is huddled into his jacket, and there is snow everywhere at this alternative service camp.

Taking a break

CA CMBS NP198-3-23
Item
[1941-1945].

Part of David Voth Photograph Collection

This photo is of a group of four conscientious objectors seated by a low stack of lumber in the bushes. The men are sitting in the snow or on the stack of lumber. All of them are looking towards the camera. They appear to be taking a break from work.

Getting the horses ready

CA CMBS NP198-3-27
Item
[1941-1945].

Part of David Voth Photograph Collection

This photo is of a conscientious objector staring at the camera while he holds the reins to two horses. The horses are harnessed to a stone boat and are most likely being prepared to drag lumber at an alternative service camp.

Moving the logs

CA CMBS NP198-3-28
Item
[1941-1945].

Part of David Voth Photograph Collection

This photo is of a group of conscientious objectors working by a stack of lumber outside, at an alternative service camp. Two of the men are lifting one of the lumber logs, while the others are standing by.

Bringing firewood

CA CMBS NP198-3-40
Item
[1941-1945].

Part of David Voth Photograph Collection

This photo is of a man pulling a small sleigh of lumber. The lumber appears to be cut for firewood. The man has stopped outside of one of the conscientious objectors serving at an alternative service lumber camp building doors and is smiling at the camera.

Snow plane

CA CMBS NP198-3-46
Item
[1941-1945].

Part of David Voth Photograph Collection

A purpose-built light weight vehicle propelled by a large propeller mounted at the rear and equipped with 4 skis for travelling across fields of snow on the Prairies.