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Only top-level descriptions Mennonite Archives of Ontario World War, 1939-1945 - Conscientious objectors
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Irvin Bender and Orval Yantzi

  • CA MAO 2015-1-74
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Alternative Service workers Irvin Bender (Baden, Ontario) and Orval Yantzi (New Hamburg, Ontario) with icicles. Date on back of photo is 1941, but they are on the list for the winter camp of 1942-1943.

Sauder, Stanley

Jacob Neufeld photograph collection

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.343
  • File
  • 1942-1943

Scenes of camp life at Montreal River during the winter of 1942 to 1943

Neufeld, Jacob, 1922-2009

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.

Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2
  • File
  • [between 1941 and 1944]

Contains four photograph albums of Alternative Service camps. Photographs were taken or collected by Jesse B. Martin. A sample of photographs from these albums is described in the database. For the complete albums, see Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2 at the Mennonite Archives of Ontario.

Martin, J. B. ( Jesse Bauman), 1897-1974

Joseph Vale photograph collection

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.280
  • File
  • 1941-1997

Photographs taken and collected by Joseph Vale during his trip to Greece aboard the Plymouth Victory in 1947 with the "seagoing cowboys." Also, photographs taken and collected by Joseph Vale documenting subsequent reunions of the Plymouth Victory "cowboys" and wives.

Vale, Joseph

Leaving for work

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

Alternative Service workers on a truck leaving camp for work

Sauder, Stanley

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

Men around Christmas tree at conscientious

  • CA MAO 1987-6 20
  • Item
  • 1943

Men around Christmas tree at conscientious objector work camp at Lake Cowichan, British Columbia. L-R: Irvin Weber, Andy Bowman, Mike Bohonoski, Elias Brubacher, Tobias Bowman, Raymond Good

Fretz, John L.

Moses Gerber with camp dog

  • CA MAO 2015-1-58
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Moses L. Gerber with the camp dog at Montreal River

Unknown

Outside the blacksmith shop at Montreal River

  • CA MAO 2015-1-66
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Stanley Sauder, Wayne Gingrich (Preston, Ontario), Elmon Lichti (Tavistock, Ontario) outside the blacksmith shop at Montreal River. Date on back of photograph is 1941, but these men are on the camp list for 1942-1943.

Unknown

Pumping water on fire

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.6-1
  • Item
  • [between 1942 and 1944]

An Alternative Service worker pumps water onto a fire. Caption on back reads, "pumping water on fire."

Brubacher, Isaac

Snowplow at Montreal River

  • CA MAO 2015-1-67
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Alternative Service workers piled onto a snowplow at Montreal River

Sauder, Stanley

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