Alternative Service worker Henry Unger
- CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.280-45
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- [between Aug and Dec 1941]
Henry Unger with fish outside an Alternative Service tent
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Alternative Service worker Henry Unger
Henry Unger with fish outside an Alternative Service tent
Alternative Service workers assembling or disassembling a building
Alternative Service workers assembling or disassembling a building
Alternative Service workers assembling or disassembling a building
Alternative Service workers disassembling a building
Front, left to right: Orlan Martin, Menno Wideman
Alternative Service workers filling trucks for road building
Alternative Service workers in tent at Montreal River
Alternative Service workers from Group 3 at Montreal River inside their sleeping tent. Left to right: Aaron Weber (Waterloo, Ontario), Melvin Brubacher (Elmira, Ontario), unknown, Orlan Martin (Elmira, Ontario), Menno Wideman (Elmira, Ontario).
Alternative Service workers near Montreal River
Alternative Service workers and a makeshift tent. The two men outside could be cooking or washing dishes.
Alternative Service workers near Montreal River
Captain DaSilva of the SS Plymouth Victory
The Plymouth Victory was used in 1947 to transport horses to Greece to replenish livestock depleted by the Second World War. Volunteer livestock attendants, called seagoing cowboys, accompanied the animals on ship.
Carl B. Miller, seagoing cowboy
Miller was one of the volunteer livestock attendants, commonly called seagoing cowboys, that tended the horses on board the SS Plymouth Victory. The horses were bound for Greece to replenish livestock depleted after the Second World War.
Cleason Martin and Dick Martin drilling
Couples from Ontario at the 1993 Plymouth Victory reunion
Left to right: Ken and Marie (Cressman) Shantz, Joe and Sarah Vale, Mahlon and Marie (Seyler) Shantz. The reunion took place at Five Oaks.
"Cowgirls" at the Plymouth Victory reunion
Caption in album: "Cowboys better halfs referred to as cow girls." Pictured are wives of the men who went as seagoing cowboys to Greece on the Plymouth Victory in 1947. The reunion took place at Refreshing Mountain Camp in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Enos Gingrich and Eli Reist in sleeping tent at Montreal River
Left to right: Enos Gingrich, Eli Reist. Both are from Elmira, Ontario.