Mennonite Archival Information Database

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 Serivce workers in their baseball field

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.9-97
Item
[between 1942 and 1944]

Part of Clayton Burkholder photograph album

Caption on back reads: "10 of the men who played ball in that field around Christmas time. The weather was quite warm."

Alternative Service bunk houses

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.9-80
Item
[between 1942 and 1944]

Part of Clayton Burkholder photograph album

Caption on back reads: "These are our bunk houses taken from the back."

Alternative Service cabin at Montreal River camp

CA MAO 2011-1 4
Item
1987

Photo is of a log cabin on the grounds of the Twilight Resort in Montreal River Harbour, Ontario. The cabin housed Mennonite Alternative Service men during World War II. Carved into one of the logs are the names of Alternative Service workers Wilmer Wagler (Shakespeare, Ontario), Emerson Wagler (Shakespeare, Ontario), Moses G. Martin and Joe Martin (Wallenstein, Ontario). The man identified as Moses G. Martin could possibly be Morris Martin or Mahlon Martin; no Moses G. Martin is found in the Alternative Service lists.

Ruth Fletcher

Alternative Service camp on Vancouver Island, British Columbia

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.282.3-9
Item
[between 1942 and 1943]

Part of Harold Schmidt photograph collection

Note on back of photo: "Camp on Vancouver Island. H.J.S." Temporary buildings possibly at a tree-planting site on Vancouver Island. Alternative Service workers from the Seymour Mountain camp were set to plant trees in the Campbell River area; however, Harold Schmidt stayed behind at Mount Seymour.