This is a photo of a group lined up beside the Mennonite Pioneer Mission Bombardier in the winter at Bloodvein First nation near a vacant house, sometimes used for church services.
Caption on back reads: "Where M.P.M. is building station. A house on the Bloodvein Indian Reserve. It appears to be a good size. However at the time I visited the large part was not in use at all due to a need of repairs. A family of five were living in the small right section of the house.. Miss Helen Willms, Matheson Island." Used in CM 3-44-1. See also CM 7-16-6.
Alfred Cook of Bloodvein, Manitoba shakes hands with two men. The man on the right wearing a jacket with indigenous decorations on it is Mennonite Pioneer Mission missionary Edwin Brandt.
This photograph shows Trudie Unrau (left) and Helen Willms in the Unrau's new mission yawl, approaching the Roman Catholic Church parsonage and local store at Bloodvein.