Mennonite Archival Information Database

A hot snag during a forest fire

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.3-35
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Wilson Hunsberger photograph album

Caption in album reads: "Fighting a forest fire: a hot snag." A snag is a burned or dead tree.

Albert Stunden and Hazel

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.3-20
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Wilson Hunsberger photograph album

Caption in album reads: "Ab. picks flowers for Hazel."

Albert Stunden in bunk

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.3-19
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Wilson Hunsberger photograph album

Caption in album reads: "Albert Stunden, London, Ontario. Ab. says he can read. For once - a neat bunk."

Albert Stunden in new chair

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.3-29
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Wilson Hunsberger photograph album

Caption in album reads: "Al tries out the new chair."

Alternative Service worker dressed for work

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.3-31
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Wilson Hunsberger photograph album

Caption in album reads: "Dressed for work." The man, possibly Wilson Hunsberger, is wearing gloves, a rain hat and work boots, and carrying tools. This fire fighting uniform was called a "dryback."

Alternative Service worker reading in bunk

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.3-26
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Wilson Hunsberger photograph album

Caption in album reads: "Recreation: in the bunk at nightfall."

Alternative Service workers building a road

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.3-7
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Wilson Hunsberger photograph album

Caption in album reads: "Building a road through virgin forest. Douglas Fir, Hemlock and Red Cedar."

Alternative Service workers building a road

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.3-11
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Wilson Hunsberger photograph album

Alternative Service workers cutting a Douglas Fir

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.3-8
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Wilson Hunsberger photograph album

Alternative Service workers playing volleyball

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.3-27
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Wilson Hunsberger photograph album

Alternative Service workers travel to Campbell River

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.3-40
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Wilson Hunsberger photograph album

Alternative Service workers with new boots

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.3-30
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Wilson Hunsberger photograph album

Alternative Service workers pose in a line on a log with new work boots.

Alternative Service workers with trout

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.3-25
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Wilson Hunsberger photograph album

Caption in album reads: "Recreation: a 'monster' steelhead: Fish caught in Koksilah River. This trout is so large that it is believed it grew up in the river, never swam the rapids to the salt water."

Alternative Service workers, staff and officials

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.3-12
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Wilson Hunsberger photograph album

A group photograph of Alternative Service workers, camp personnel and officials . Hunsberger has identified the following. In the front row (left to right): Pete Kinakin (Bulwark, Alberta); Lyle Rozander (Vancouver), Fred Dean (Kitchener now Calgary), Mr. Henley (Vancouver), Mr. Westman (Chief of Alternative Service, Ottawa), Bill Mudge (foreman of Camp C3), Mr. Hodgins (British Columbia Forest Service, Victoria). Middle row (left to right): Frank Redford (McBride, British Columbia), Norm Klassen (Linden, Alberta), Wilson Hunsberger (Waterloo, Ontario), Bill Neufeld (Abbotsford, British Columbia), Robert Philip (Chatham, Ontario), Elmer G. Martin (Floradale, Ontario), George Warnock (Vancouver), Henry Klassen (Vauxhall, Alberta), Herbert Jennings (Tillsonburg, Ontario), Don Welshman (London, Ontario), ?. Back row (left to right): Walter Keffer (New Dundee, Ontario), Dave Templeton, ?, Claude Klassen (Linden, Alberta), David Neufeld (Abbotsford), Jake Friesen (Kitchener), Ben Barg (Vineland area), Nick Rempel (Vineland, Ontario), Colin Winston (Vancouver), Robert Welshman (London, Ontario), Charles Deighton (Victoria), Ben Barkman (Linden, Alberta).

An Alternative Service Work Camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.3-41
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Wilson Hunsberger photograph album

An Alternative Service work camp on Vancouver Island, possibly Loveland Lake (Campbell River) .

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