Mennonite Archival Information Database

Albert Drudge and Lewis Reesor with axes

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.324/9-09
Item
[1941 or 1942]

Part of Alma and Lewis Reesor photographs

Albert Drudge and Lewis Reesor using axes at Montreal River

Unknown

Alternative Service workers at Montreal River

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.324/9-13
Item
[1941 or 1942]

Part of Alma and Lewis Reesor photographs

A group of Alternative Service workers at Montreal River. Left to right: possibly Leonard Burkholder, unknown, unknown, Joe Sherk, Leonard Ramer, Lewis Reesor, unknown, Lorne Wideman, unknown, unknown, unknown, Albert Drudge, unknown, unknown, Ross Wideman, unknown.

Unknown

Alternative Service workers digging on a hillside

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.343-04
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Jacob Neufeld photograph collection

Unknown

Alternative Service workers outside a tent at Montreal River

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.324/9-10
Item
[1941 or 1942]

Part of Alma and Lewis Reesor photographs

A group of Alternative Service workers at Montreal River. Written on the back of the photograph: "Ross Nigh, Albert Drudge, Lewis Reesor, Harold Cressman, Wilfred Atkison, Leonard Ramer."

Unknown

Alternative Service workers with horse teams

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.324/9-14
Item
[1941 or 1942]

Part of Alma and Lewis Reesor photographs

Six Alternative Service workers with three teams of horses. Howard Pollard is first from left, and Lewis Reesor is second from left. Melvin Baker is at far right. The others are not clearly identified.

Unknown

Brandon Mental Hospital (356.13)

CA MHC 333-14
Item
between 1941 and 1945

Part of Alternative Service (Unser Ersatzdienst), 1941-45 Slide Collection

This photo is of one of the three large buildings at the Brandon Mental Hospital where conscientious objectors worked in WWII. The facility was closed in 1998.

Unknown

Bunk beds at Montreal River

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.343-06
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Jacob Neufeld photograph collection

Bunk beds and personal effects of Alternative Service workers at Montreal River

Unknown

Cleaning and Drilling

CA CMBS NP191-01-1
Item
[between 1941-1943?]

Part of John M. Schmidt Photograph Collection-2

This photo is of three conscientious objectors working on drilling holes in the rock in preparation for blasting in order to build a road near Camp Geikie at Jasper National Park in Alberta.

Unknown

Clearing snow off a camp building roof

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.343-05
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Jacob Neufeld photograph collection

Four Alternative Service workers clearing snow off a camp building roof

Unknown

CO camp baseball team

CA CMBS NP145-1-32
Item
[ca. 1943]

Part of Katie Funk Wiebe Photo Collection

This photo is of 11 conscientious objectors posing for a photo with baseball glove and bats. These men were doing alternative service in Blubber Bay, BC in the Second World War. Back row, left to right is ?, ?, Hermann Ratzlaff, Henry Wiens, Henry Stobbe, Frank C. Peters. Front row: left to right, Henry Siebert, Bill Funston, Jake Balzer, ?, David Balzer.

Unknown

Coaldale conscientious objectors stand in the forest in Jasper National Park at a reunion

CA MAO XV-19.3-2001-14-387
Item
1966

Part of The Canadian Mennonite photograph collection

Used in CM 14-38-2. 14 of the 16 men, Coaldale Cos, stand in the forest in Jasper National Park at a reunion. Photo dated Aug. '66.
See CM for all names & where they are from.

Unknown

Conscientious objectors in a BC alternative service camp

CA CMBS NP145-1-12
Item
[ca. 1943].

Part of Katie Funk Wiebe Photo Collection

This photo is of 4 men standing outside one of the camp buildings. left to right is Frank C. Peters, David Balzer, Jake Balzer, ?.

Unknown

Conscientious objectors posing for a photo with fire fighting equipment

CA CMBS NP145-1-22
Item
[ca. 1943].

Part of Katie Funk Wiebe Photo Collection

This photo is of 12 conscientious objectors posing for a photo behind a their fire fighting equipment used on Vancouver island for fighting forest fires.

Unknown

Elmon Bender fonds

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.342
Fonds
1942-1943

Photographs of camp life and work at Montreal River Alternative Service work camp by conscientious objectors ("COs") during the winter of 1942-1943, a homemade calendar for 1942 featuring a picture of the camp, and a colourized photograph of the camp framed with birch bark.

Unknown

Five men at a Canadian camp for conscientious objectors

CA MAO XV-19.3-2001-14-386
Item
194-

Part of The Canadian Mennonite photograph collection

5 men at a Canadian camp for Conscientious Objectors (Alternative Service) during WW II. At right 2 sit on some crates, one holding a dog. At left one man receives a haircut, another looks on.
Place not identified, no date given.

Unknown

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