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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.

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.

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

Conference of Mennonites BC fonds

  • CA MHSBC 1
  • Fonds
  • 1783-2017

Fonds consists of the following series:
1) Constitutions - 1936-1987, 2001 - (2 files) - Box 1
2) Policies - 1936, 1948, 1987 - (1 file) - Box 1
3) History - 1936-1985, 1988 - (3 files) - Box 1
4) Annual conference Minutes & Reports - 1936, 1938-1939, 1942-1979, 1980-1989, 1990-1998, 2007-2008 - (27 files) - Boxes 1, 2 & 21
5) Minister's Conference - Executive - 1937-1955, 1966, 1973 - (4 files) - Box 3
6) Sunday School Conference - 1938-1950 - (1 file) - Box 3
7) Maedchenheim - 1935-1958 - (2 files) - Box 3
8) Executive Committee - Minutes, Correspondence & Finances - 1935-2004 - (57 files) - Boxes 3-6
9) Conference Minister- Pastoral Internship - 1978-1994 - (32 files) - Box 7
10) Church Ministries - 1975-1983 - (30 files) - Boxes 8 & 9
11) Conference Coordinator - 1975-1983 - (4 files) Box 9
12) Mission and Service Committee - 1937-1990 - (101 files) - Boxes 10-14
13) Education Committee - 1963-1994 - (13 files) - Box 15
14) Music Committee - 1972-1992 - (3 files) - Box 15
15) Mennonite Youth Organization - 1948-1996 - (26 files) - Box 16
16) Women in Mission - 1941-1998 - (29 files) - Boxes 17 & 18
17) Camp Squeah - 1963-2014 - (27 files) - Boxes 18 & 19
18) Julilee Celebration - 1985 - (1 file) - Box 19
19) Lectures and Sermons - 1921, 1959, 1963-64, 1976 - (1 file) - Box 19
20) Peace Conference - 1961- (1 file) - Box 19
21) Peace and Justice Committee - 1984- (1 file) - Box 19
22) Study Commission - 1968- (1 file) - Box 19
23) Study Conference - 1979 - (1 file) - Box 19
24) Choice Books - 1978-1979- (1 file) - Box 19
25) Friends of the Conference - 1991- (1 file) - Box 19
26) Publications - 1959, 1975-2017- (10 files) - Box 19
27) Manuscript - Frontier Challenge - 1989 - (1 file) - Box 19
28) Clippings - 1941, 1951, 1989- (1 file) - Box 19
29) Photographs - (1 file) - Box 19
30) Bethel Youth Reports - 1970 - (1 file) - Box 19
31) Vital Statistics - (7 files) - Box 20
32) BC Centennial Committee -1973-1975 - (7 files) - Box 20
33) Evangelism and Church Development - 1977, 1989-1993, 1995-1999 - (3 files) - Box 21
34) Directories - 1979 -2004 - (7 files) - Box 21
35) Audio/Visual - 1991, 2007 includes the Covenent Celebration - (1 file) - Box 21
36) Catechism books - 1783-1962, N.D. - Boxes 23 & 24

Mennonite Church British Columbia

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

Janis Thiessen fonds

  • CA MHC PP
  • Fonds
  • 1996-2014

This fonds contains oral interviews gathered on the subject of labour history from the view of Mennonite business owners and Mennonite employees and well as the history of Westgate Mennonite Collegiate in Winnipeg. The workers were selected from different gender and social classes. The content formed the basis for Thiessen's thesis on labour history of Russian Mennonites, a book on unions, and history of the private Mennonite high school, Westgate.

Thiessen, Janis

BC Conference of MB Churches fonds

  • CA MHSBC 30
  • Fonds
  • 1899-2012

Fonds consists of the following series:
1) Constitution - 1936-2005 - (9 files) Box 84
2) Minutes - 1931-1995 - (1 file) Boxes 84 - 87
3) Correspondence - 1940-1994 - (68 files) Box 88 - 90
4) Financial - 1945-1988 - (18 files) Box 91
5) Legal Documents - 1936-1984 - (6 files) Box 92
6) Reports - 1980-1995 - (96 files) Boxes 92-94
7) Lists - 1970-1993 - (6 files) Box 95
8) Statistics - 1972-1992 - (2 files) Box 95
9) Personnel Records 1972-1981 - (12 files) Box 95; (129 files) Box 106
10) Certificates of Ordination and Membership 1944, 1968 - (2 files) Box 96
11) Lectures and Sermons - 1971-1991 - (16 files) Box 96
12) Publications - 1902-1994 - (7 files) Box 96
13) Ephemera - 1940-1986 - (2 files) Box 96
14) Clippings - 1952-1966 - (1 file) Box 96, 424
15) Chart and Drawings - 1939-1959, 1965-66 - (1 file) Box 96
16) Mennonite Brethren Churches (alphabetical) - (143 files) Boxes 97 -103
17) Board of Church Extension - 1968-1999 - (22 files) Box 104
18) Board of Christian Education - 1942-1992 - (21 files) Box 105
19) BC Youth Organization - 1944-1972 - (18 files) Box 105
20) MB Missions of BC - 1943-1995 - (32 files) Box 106
21) Photographs - (including West Coast Children's Mission)
22) Sunday School Materials - 1899, 1940-1987 - Box 107

British Columbia Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches

Stillwood Camp and Conference Centre fonds

  • CA MHSBC 166
  • Fonds
  • 1959-2005

Fonds consists of the following series:
1) Constitution and By-laws - 1971 - (1 file) Box 365
2) Reports - 1964-65, 1967-1968, 1971, 1989 - (1 file) Box 365
3) Lists - Counselors - 1959 - (1 file) Box 365
4.1) Publications - Counselor's Manual, 1982 - (1 file) Box 365
4.2) Publications - Board & Staff Manual - (1 file) Box 365
4.3) Publications - Promotions, 1976, 1988-1989, 1992, 2005 - (1 file) Box 365
4.4) Publications - CBC News, 1972-1987, CBC Journal, 1992-2003 - (1 file) Box 365
4.5) Publications - Study Guide, 1979 - (1 file) Box 365
5) Clipping - 1974-1975 - (1 file) Box 365

Stillwood Camp and Conference Centre

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

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