Mennonite Archival Information Database

Alternative Service workers boarding bus for camps

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-3_8
Item
Jun 1942

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album reads: "The busses that transported the boys to boat - First group going to Island."

Alternative Service workers cleaning Green Timbers

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-3_9
Item
Jun 1942

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album reads: "The group that had to stay at Green Timbers for a few days - Ready to clean up the grounds."

Alternative Service workers from Waterloo, Ontario at Green Timbers

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-3_5
Item
Jun 1942

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album reads: "The Waterloo boys - See the big stump."

Alternative Service workers in front of the Green Timbers wash house

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-3_6
Item
Jun 1942

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album reads: "Wash house with shower bath. 1. Bruce Gowing, Preston; 2. Freeman Dungy, Windsor; 3. Edward [or Edgar?] Dyck, Preston; 4. Weins [or Wiens?]" Numbers correspond to numbers written on photograph.

Alternative Service workers leaving Green Timbers for Seymour camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-3_10
Item
Jun 1942

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album reads: "Ready to leave Green Timbers for Seymour Camp, Dollarton, B.C. (About twelve miles from Vancouver)."

Alternative Service workers reporting to Green Timbers

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-3_1
Item
Jun 1942

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album reads: "Line up for registration and receiving tag number."

Alternative Service workers waiting at the Green Timbers office

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-3_2
Item
Jun 1942

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Alternative Service workers reporting to the Green Timbers station for assignments.

Alternative Service workers waiting to go to C4 camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-3_7
Item
Jun 1942

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album reads: "Waiting for buses to go to Vancouver and take boat to Victoria on Island. The paper bags contain their dinner. [Illegible words] boat trip to Island." Fred Cressman's photo album indicates that this group is bound for C4 (Langford) camp. Cressman identifies the men (left to right): Elias Brubacher, Tobias Bowman, Joe Banyai, Melvin Kropf, Melvin Burkhart, Blake Snider, Clayton Wismer, Walter Keffer, Nyal Shantz, Ward Shuh, Len Witmer, Mervin Wismer, Willard Geiger, Rufus Jutzi, Bill Eunson, Munro Jutzi, Raymond Good, Carl Zimmerman, Clifford Cressman, Irvin Weber, John Fretz, Fred Cressman, Clayton Burkholder. Ed Weber is absent from the photo.

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

Lining up for Sunday dinner at Green Timbers

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-3_3
Item
7 Jun 1942

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album reads: "Ready for Sunday dinner June 7, 1942. Dining hall and kitchen."

Tents for lodging at Green Timbers

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-3_4
Item
Jun 1942

Part of Jesse B. Martin photograph albums

Caption in album reads: "Tents for lodging. Notice the double roof." Alternative Service workers reported to Green Timbers in June 1942 for camp assignments.

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