Photographs taken and collected by Joseph Vale during his trip to Greece aboard the Plymouth Victory in 1947 with the "seagoing cowboys." Also, photographs taken and collected by Joseph Vale documenting subsequent reunions of the Plymouth Victory "cowboys" and wives.
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.
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.
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.
Group photo of men working at Montreal River. Back row is cut off. Caption in album is a poem in low German: "Doch es escht twalw bie am de Klock,/ Dann springt a lostig op den 'Truck',/ 'Bie aul dem Schwoaren haft daut Dejne,'/ So denkt he, 'werklich manchet Schejne.'