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Len Bechtel photograph collection

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1
  • File
  • 1942-1944

Consists of photographs taken or collected by Bechtel during his time in Alternative Service.

Bechtel, Len, 1916-2009

Sorting chocolate bars to sell at camp

Sorting chocolate bars to sell at camp

  • CA MAO 2015-1-69
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Stanley Sauder and Irvin Bender (Baden, Ontario) sort chocolate bars to sell to their fellow Alternative Service workers at Montreal River.

Unknown

Leaving for work

Leaving for work

  • CA MAO 2015-1-73
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Alternative Service workers on a truck leaving camp for work

Sauder, Stanley

A group of men during their time of Alternative

A group of men during their time of Alternative

  • CA MAO M2004Goe 2
  • Item
  • 1916

A group of men during their time of Alternative Service. Jakob Bergen, Elvera’s father is seated, the 3rd from the left. The man seated 1st at the left may by Martin Duerksen, brother-in-law of Jakob Bergen. This is one of four pictures which he sent home to the family while working in Alternative Service during WW I. See M2004Goe # 3, 4, and 5 which are related to Alternative Service.

Unknown

Jakob Bergen, father of Elvera (Bergen) Goerz,

Jakob Bergen, father of Elvera (Bergen) Goerz,

  • CA MAO M2004Goe 5
  • Item
  • 1916

Jakob Bergen, father of Elvera (Bergen) Goerz, helped build roads and railway tracks during WW I in the Ukraine as Alternative Service. In this photo the buildings under construction are in the distance while forest trees and stumps of trees are visible in the foreground.

Unknown

James Donald Millar, a cook's helper

James Donald Millar, a cook's helper

  • CA MAO 1990-4 50
  • Item
  • 1941

James Donald Millar, a cook's helper in a conscientious objector camp in British Columbia in 1941. Better known as Donald Millar.

The recreation room / library / lounge area at

The recreation room / library / lounge area at

  • CA MAO 1987-6 21
  • Item
  • 1943

The recreation room / library / lounge area at the alternative service work camp at Lake Cowichan, British Columbia, ca. 1943. Interior shot.

Fretz, John L.

Mennonite Research Foundation (Goshen, Ind.) New Draft Census Records

  • US MCUSAA V/07/022
  • Collection
  • 1954-1956

Response card files, work sheets, correspondence, and final reports for the 1956 census of Mennonite men's draft registration status.  This census, conducted in 1956, was also known as Project 33 of the Mennonite Research Foundation.

Mennonite Research Foundation (Goshen, Indiana)

Mennonite Board of Missions I-W Records 1953-1974

  • US MCUSAA IV/19/009
  • Collection
  • 1943-1974

Adminstrative files documenting the placement of conscientious objectors into alternative service positions.  These records are divided into the following series:

(1) Personnel Files, 1943-1971

(2) Minutes, Reports, and Financial Records, 1952-1969

(3) Draft Census Records, 1963-1965

(4) Correspondence, 1954-1971

(5) I-W Program Files, 1952-1974

Mennonite Board of Missions

Mark Arden Schmucker Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/350
  • Collection
  • 1981-1987

These papers consist primarily of newspaper clippings, court records, and incoming correspondence pertaining to the 1982 conviction of Mennonite conscientious objector and Goshen college student Mark Arden Schmucker on charges of failing to register for the draft.

Researchers should note that this collection does not contain copies of all of the court records for Schmucker's case.  Rather, the court records in this collection are primarily briefs submitted to the court on Schmucker's behalf.

Schmucker, Mark Arden, 1960-

Mabel V. Brunk Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/227SC
  • Collection
  • 1945-1967

Contains a letter written by Brunk, describing her work as a nurse with Mennonite Central Committee in Pusan, Korea. The scroll, presented to Brunk by the Korean Nursing Association of Pusan, features the Nightingale Pledge written in Korean. Also includes a journal from her experiences working as a "C.O. Girl" in the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane in Poughkeepsie, NY, during the summer of 1945.

Brunk, Mabel Virginia, 1926-

Betty Klassen conscientious objector photo collection

  • CA MHC 601
  • Collection
  • 1941, 1986

This collection is about conscientious objectors and alternative service, including the men working at Camp Giekie, posing for photos at the camp, out on the job (tree planting, snag falling) eating, their living quarters etc. Also included is a photo of personnel at Camp Q7 (Loveland Lake, Campbell River, BC). Also some photos of a reunion in 1986.

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