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Only top-level descriptions Mennonite Archives of Ontario World War, 1939-1945 - Conscientious objectors
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Alma and Lewis Reesor photographs

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.324/9
  • File
  • [1941 or 1942]

This file consists of photographs from Lewis Reesor's time at the Montreal River Alternative Service Work Camp in northern Ontario. Reesor was in Group 4, which served from 25 Nov 1941-24 Mar 1942. This group overlapped with Group 5, which served from 9 Dec 1941-11 Jul 1942.

Reesor, Lewis, 1919-1999

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

Alternative service work camp at Lake Cowichan

  • CA MAO 1987-6 18
  • Item
  • [between 1942 and 1944]

Alternative service work camp at Lake Cowichan, British Columbia in 1943. This is a picture of some camp buildings.

Fretz, John L.

Cave at camp

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

Caption on back: "cave made at camp."

Sauder, Stanley

Clayton Burkholder photograph album

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.9
  • File
  • 1941-1944

The album consists of photographs taken or collected by Burkholder during his time in Alternative Service.

Burkholder, Clayton

Conscientious objectors tearing up wooden ties

  • CA MAO 1987-6 19
  • Item
  • [between 1942 and 1944]

Conscientious objectors tearing up wooden ties from an old railroad bed to make way for a gravel road in British Columbia, ca. 1943.

Fretz, John L.

Cooks at Alternative Service work camp at Lake

  • CA MAO 1987-6 17
  • Item
  • [between 1942 and 1944]

Cooks at Alternative Service work camp at Lake Cowichan, British Columbia ca. 1943 L-R: --, --, Seranus Wideman, Elias Brubacher, --, --, Nyal Shantz

Fretz, John L.

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

Elmon Bender fonds

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.342
  • Fonds
  • 1942-1943

Photographs of camp life and work at Montreal River Alternative Service work camp by conscientious objectors ("COs") during the winter of 1942-1943, a homemade calendar for 1942 featuring a picture of the camp, and a colourized photograph of the camp framed with birch bark.

Unknown

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

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

Interior of bunkhouse at Cowichan

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.6_2
  • Item
  • 1943

Bunkhouse at the alternative service work camp at Lake Cowichan, British Columbia, ca. 1943. Interior shot.

Brubacher, Isaac

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