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Truck from Sault Ste. Marie to the camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-1
Item
Dec 1941

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

The truck that brought Alternative Service workers from Sault Ste. Marie to the camp at Montreal River

Staff of The Northern Beacon with the first issue

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-10
Item
3 Jan 1942

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

Staff of The Northern Beacon, the periodical of the Montreal River Alternative Service camp, display the first copy of the first issue for the camera.

Printing The Northern Beacon

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-11
Item
1942

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

Two Alternative Service men use a duplication machine to run off copies of The Northern Beacon, the periodical of the Montreal River Alternative Service camp.

Typing and printing The Northern Beacon

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-12
Item
1942

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

An Alternative Service Worker types copy for The Northern Beacon. A duplication machine sits on the table in front of his typewriter.

Bunkhouse in winter

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-13
Item
1942

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

Road to Montreal River camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-14
Item
1942

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

The road to the Montreal River Alternative Service Work Camp

Tuck and Laddie

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-15
Item
1942

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

Dogs "Tuck" and "Laddie" with two men. The dogs are hitched to a small sled. Buiding in background is possibly the power house at Montreal River.

Riding with Cub

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-16
Item
1942

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

Four boys with a toboggan being pulled by a dog named "Cub."

Gord Bolender at Montreal River

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-17
Item
1942

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

Gordon Bolender of Stauffville, Ontario at Montreal River. Brown notes that he was "discharged January 30."

Jim MacIver and Don Darley

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-18
Item
1942

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

Left to right: James MacIver (or MacIvor) and Don Darley, both of Toronto, at Montreal River.

Jake Tiessen at Montreal River

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-19
Item
1942

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

A man, identified by Wes Brown as Jake Tiessen, stands in the snow at Montreal River. According to A. J. Klassen's book <i>Alternative Service for Peace</i>, a Jake or Jack Tiessen was a conscientious objector from Leamington, Ontario.

Montreal River sign

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-2
Item
Dec 1941

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

A signpost for Montreal River

Alternative Service workers planting trees

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-20
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

This photo is of Alternative Service worker Helmut P. Neufeld carrying a pack of lunch boxes and holding an axe, getting directions from foreman Peter Wolfe as they stand in an area where seedlings are to be planted after the 1938 Sayward forest Fire on Vancouver Island.

Men planting trees at an Alternative Service work camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-21
Item
1942

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

Men clearing trees at an Alternative Service work camp. Possibly the same field as Hist.Mss.1.202.3-20.

A clearing near Montreal River

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.202.3-22
Item
1942

Part of Wes Brown photograph album

A clearing near Montreal River. The photograph is labelled "before." This note probably refers to a blast that is about to clear the area. See also Hist.Mss.1.202.3-23 to Hist.Mss.1.202.3-26.

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