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Baggage brought to the ship

CA MHSBC 112-16-11-2018.002.027
Item
1923-06-05

Part of John B Toews fonds

The belongings of the Mennonites being brought to the ship.

Unknown...

Immigrants boarding the Bruton at Libau

CA MHC 352-8.0
Item
5 July 1923

Part of Mennonite Historian Collection

This photo shows a horse and wagon filled with immigrant belongings with the S.S. Bruton in the background, and several men carrying large crates on their back going up a ramp.
NOTE: the donor received four photos compliments of Canadian Pacific Archives in Montreal in 1985. One photo was publishe in the MH, June 1998.

Immigrants boarding the Bruton at Libau

CA MHC 352-6.0
Item
5 July 1923

Part of Mennonite Historian Collection

This photo show a large crowd around a box car and some people walking up the ramp of the ship. NOTE: the donor received four photos compliments of Canadian Pacific Archives in Montreal in 1985. One photo was published in the MH, June 1998.

Immigrants boarding the Bruton at Libau

CA MHC 352-7.0
Item
5 July 1923

Part of Mennonite Historian Collection

This photo shows some men, women and children carrying their baggage just arrived on the desk of the ship, with others still coming up the ramp. NOTE: the donor received four photos compliments of Canadian Pacific Archives in Montreal in 1985. One photo was published in the MH, June 1998.

Immigrants boarding the ship in Libau

CA MHC 744-6
Item
July 5, 1923

Part of Helen Dyck fonds

This photo is of Mennonites boarding the ship in Libau. Front of the line and on the ship is a man carrying a suitcase, two young children beside him and a woman following. The man and woman may be Jacob Schellenberg and his wife Justina. Ship's officers in hats stand around.

Immigrants walking up the plank to the ship at the port of Libau.

CA MHC 744-5
Item
July 5, 1923

Part of Helen Dyck fonds

This photo is of a group of passengers walking from land, over a large plank, and onto a ship in the report of Libau to take them to Canada.

Loading the Bruton at Libau

CA MHSBC 112-16-11-2018.002.031
Item
1923-06-05

Part of John B Toews fonds

Depicting the off leading of Mennonites from train cars and onto the Canadian Pacific Vessel Bruton. These people would have been some of the very first immigrants to come to Canada in the 1920's.

Unknown.

Loading the ship Bruton at Libau

CA MHSBC 112-16-11-2018.002.030
Item
1923-06-05

Part of John B Toews fonds

Emigrants loading belongings on the ship under the ship crew's guidance.

Unknown...

Mennonites embarking in Latvia

CA MHSBC 249-2-2017.039.001
Item
1923-07-14

Part of Gerda Neumann fonds

Immigrant passengers embarking the ship Bruton in Libau, Latvia

Unknown

People carrying materials from the train to the ship at Libau

CA MHC 744-4
Item
July 5, 1923

Part of Helen Dyck fonds

This photo is of train cars on the left and people moving crates from the train cars to an awaiting ship, the Bruton, on the right in Libau.

Ship docked in Libau

CA MHC 744-3
Item
July 5, 1923

Part of Helen Dyck fonds

This photo is of a large ship docked at Libau (Libaw) that would be used to carry Mennonites to Canada. A horse and wagon are in the foreground. a few people carry large crates up the plank to the ship. Lifeboats and a large plume of smoke leaving the ship's smoke stack can be seen.