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Mennonite Archives of Ontario Jesse B. Martin photograph albums Emory Creek Alternative Service Work Camp (Hope, British Columbia)
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Alternative Service workers at Emory Creek

Caption in album reads: "The group at Emory Creek Camp, two miles from Yale and ninety miles east of Vancouver." Standing, left to right: Peter Langeman (Leamington, Ontario), Andrew Bowman (Bridgeport, Ontario), Daniel B. Klassen (Leamington), Mike Buhaneski (Kitchener, Ontario), William Turner (Kitchener), Edgar Dyck (Preston, Ontario), Daddy ? (Preston), Henry Langeman (Ruthven, Ontario), Martin Wiens (New Hamburg, Ontario), Kenneth McIver (Vancouver), George Thompson (Sarnia, Ontario), Charles Shorten (London, Ontario), John "Jack" Boldt (Kitchener), Bernard Neufield (Leamington). Seated in front, left to right: Freeman Dungy (Windsor), Serenus Wideman (Ontario), Bruce Gowing (Preston), Jacob "Jake" Peters (Kitchener), Delford Bechtel (Baden, Ontario), Peter "Pete" Wiens (Leamington), George Peters (Long Lac or Kitchener), Heinrich "Henry" Epp (Ruthven), Ferdinand "Fred" Reimer (Kingsville, Ontario). Wilson Hunsberger notes that Wilfred Erickson and Bruce Ruppert were gone to get the mail.

Eating dinner on the mountain

Caption in album reads: "Five miles up the mountain eating a good dinner - Tea, beans, sandwiches, honey, etc - The smoke comes from the open fire where meal is heated." The group is building a fire fighting trail.

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

The married men at Emory Creek

Caption in album reads: "The married group at Emory Creek: 1 - George Thompson [Sarnia, Ontario]; 2 - Delford Bechtel [Baden, Ontario]; 3 - Martin Wiens [New Hamburg, Ontario]; 4 - Leonard Bechtel [Preston, Ontario]; 5 - Freeman Dungy [Windsor, Ontario]."