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Betty Klassen conscientious objector photo collection

  • CA MHC 601
  • Collection
  • 1941, 1986

This collection is about conscientious objectors and alternative service, including the men working at Camp Giekie, posing for photos at the camp, out on the job (tree planting, snag falling) eating, their living quarters etc. Also included is a photo of personnel at Camp Q7 (Loveland Lake, Campbell River, BC). Also some photos of a reunion in 1986.

Fred Cressman photograph album

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.137.6
  • File
  • 1942-1943

The album contains photographs of Cressman's time as a conscientious objector in Alternative Service in British Columbia from 1942-1943. Although primarily based at the Goldstream (Langford) camp, Cressman and the other COs sometimes worked in the local community or in other CO camps on Vancouver Island. Most of the men in the photographs are fellow COs from Ontario, along with a few staff of the British Columbia Forestry Service.

Cressman, Fred

Jacob and Helena Fehr Photograph Collection

  • CA MHC 277
  • Collection
  • [1942-1943]

This collection contains photos of the experiences of men who were conscientious objectors to war in Canada during the Second World War and were assigned to work in an Alternative Service program. The photos are organized into the following categories:
1-2 camp; 3-11 individuals; 12-25 groups; 26-32 camp life; 33-42 camp cooks; 43-50 vistors; 51-54 misc. Items 1 to 50 were taken in British Columbia.

Unknown

James Donald Millar, a cook's helper

  • CA MAO 1990-4 50
  • Item
  • 1941

James Donald Millar, a cook's helper in a conscientious objector camp in British Columbia in 1941. Better known as Donald Millar.

Pumping water on fire

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.6-1
  • Item
  • [between 1942 and 1944]

An Alternative Service worker pumps water onto a fire. Caption on back reads, "pumping water on fire."

Brubacher, Isaac

Wes Brown photograph album

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3
  • File
  • 1941-1944

Album contains photographs taken or collected by Brown during his time as a conscientious objector in the Alternative Service program in Ontario and British Columbia.

Brown, Wes