Mennonite Archival Information Database

Building the camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-1_5
Item
[between 1942 and 1944]

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album reads: "Building dining tent. Splitting wood. Building wood house."

Building the staff office at Langford

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-1_3
Item
1942

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album reads: "Corners are not nailed but locked together so then can be taken away and moved. Building the office for staff: 1 - Fred Cressman; 2 - Raymond Good; 3 - Tobias Bauman; 4 - Elias Brubacher; 5 - [illegible]"

Bulldozer and rocky ground

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-8_26
Item
[1941 or 1942]

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Bunk house and dining hall at Petawawa Station

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-4_5
Item
ca. 1942

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album reads: "Camp at Chalk River, Ontario: Bunk House and Dining Hall."

Cabins and men at Seymour camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-2_5
Item
1942-6

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album reads: "The home of the boys. Four men in a building. No electric lights. Coal oil lamps."

Cabins at the Seymour Camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-2_16
Item
1942-6

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

A row of cabins at the Seymour camp. Caption in album reads: "Huts."

Cabins at the Seymour camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-2_18
Item
1942-6

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

"Huts" for Alternative Service workers at the Seymour camp. Sign in front says "Mount Seymour Park."

Chapel and recreation hall, Montreal River

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-4_10
Item
1942

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album: "Had first service in new Chapel June 28, 1942."

Chapel and recreation hall, Montreal River

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-4_9
Item
1942

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Clearing a road to the camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-1_4
Item
[between 1942 and 1944]

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album reads: "Removing a five foot hill to the camp so trucks can make the grade."

Clergy men at Montreal River

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-8_36
Item
[1941 or 1942]

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Left to right: E. J. Swalm, Jesse B. Martin, J. Harold Shirk, Noah Bearinger. They are standing in front of a summer sleeping tent. Identification from Darrell Frey, Called to be a Soldier, p. 106.

Cutting down snags

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-2_11
Item
1942-6

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album reads: "The dead trees are called 'snags.' If they catch fire the wind [illegible words] the sparks. Cutting down snags is [illegible words]."

Cutting wood for camp use

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-5_5
Item
1942-6

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album reads: "Four boys cutting wood for camp use. [Numbers written on photograph:] 1 - Abe Bergen, Kitchener; 2 - Lorne Litwiller, [Kitchener]; 3 - Robert Welshman, London; 4 - Gerhard Thiessen, Kitchener." A.J. Klassen's Alternative Service for Peace does not list a Gerhard Thiessen from Kitchener, but does list a Gerald Thiessen from Waterloo. Darrell Frey's Called to be a Soldier lists a Gerhard Theissen from Waterloo. An Abe Bergen from Kitchener is listed at Kokshilah in Called to be a Soldier.

Dining hall at Montreal River

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-8_51
Item
[1941 or 1942]

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

A view of the dining hall at Montreal River with tables set for a meal. Sign on the back wall reads: "No talking please."

Dogs at the Montreal River camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-8_15
Item
[1941 or 1942]

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album reads: "C.O. Dogs."

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