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Only top-level descriptions Montreal River Alternative Service Work Camp (Montreal River Harbour, Ontario) World War, 1939-1945 - Conscientious objectors With digital objects
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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

Cave at camp

  • CA MAO 2015-1-77
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Caption on back: "cave made at camp."

Sauder, Stanley

Dining hall at Montreal River camp

  • CA MAO 2015-1-64
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

The dining hall at Montreal River set for a meal, with kitchen staff

Sauder, Stanley

Dump boat for rock disposal

  • CA MAO 2015-1-71
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Alternative Service workers with a dump boat they made for disposing of rocks during road building work.

Sauder, Stanley

Dump boat for rock disposal

  • CA MAO 2015-1-70
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Alternative Service workers with a dump boat they made for disposing of rocks during road building work.

Sauder, Stanley

Ice bridge at Montreal River

  • CA MAO 2015-1-68
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Alternative Service workers explore an ice bridge at Montreal River near Lake Superior

Sauder, Stanley

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

Leaving for work

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

Alternative Service workers on a truck leaving camp for work

Sauder, Stanley

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

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

Sorting chocolate bars to sell at camp

  • CA MAO 2015-1-69
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Stanley Sauder and Irvin Bender (Baden, Ontario) sort chocolate bars to sell to their fellow Alternative Service workers at Montreal River.

Unknown

Stanley Sauder and friends at camp

  • CA MAO 2015-1-75
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Alternative Service workers, including Stanley Sauder, pose for the camera inside a tent

Unknown

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