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Pupils of Pine Grove School (Waterloo Township, SS 4, Pine Grove) outside of the school. Writing on slate says "Pinegrove 1940." The school was located near the junction of Highway 8 and Pioneer Tower Road. Bob Oberholtzer is holding the slate in front row. On another copy of the photograph (not kept), Bob notes that his great-grandfather, Abraham Oberholtzer, built the school in 1875.

Stanley Sauder did carpentry work on this barn on the Reid farm during an Alternative Service assignment

Alternative Service workers Irvin Bender (Baden, Ontario) and Orval Yantzi (New Hamburg, Ontario) with icicles. Date on back of photo is 1941, but they are on the list for the winter camp of 1942-1943.

Alternative Service workers, including Stanley Sauder, pose for the camera inside a tent

Seven of the nine children of Jacob and Maria (Janzen) Braun. Back (left to right): Geroge, Elizabeth, John, Jake, Peter. Front (left to right): Mary, Cornelius. Two additional children were born into the family after the photograph was taken.

David Bechtel, George Hagey, and Bruce Witmer, descendants of pioneer families in the congregation, participating in the cornerstone laying ceremony for the new Preston Mennonite Church on Concession Road, October 12, 1953. The original church building (known as Hagey Mennonite Church) had been destroyed by fire in February of that year. Also seen in the photograph are are Rev. Merle Shantz and Rev. Roy Koch, as well as an unidentified man in the foreground.

Hagey Mennonite Church on August 12, 1931. Located on Fountain Street North, this red brick building was constructed in 1842, remodeled in 1896, and gained a basement in 1928. It would eventually be damaged by fire in 1950, then again in 1953, at which time the current church building (now known as Preston Mennonite Church) was constructed on Concession Road.

Frank H. Epp sits on a chair with his young daughter Marlene asleep beside him.

A group photograph of participants at the Conference of Mennonites in Canada annual sessions at Greendale, British Columbia. Written on back: Canadische Conference Sardis, B.C. Juli 3-7, 1949." The delegates are posing in front of Greendale Mennonite Brethren Church (formerly Sardis Mennonite Brethren Church).

Written on back: "General Conf. Archbold, Ohio. Engine used for cooking, heating water, etc. 1915 Aug 18-20." A steam tractor is parked outside a large tent.

Painting of the Isaac S. Cressman homestead at Strasburg, Ontario by Alson Bauman (23x15 cm)

Left to right: Anna Unger, Jakob Unger, Maria Derksen. Maria and Jakob are siblings.They are seated at a dining room table in the farmhouse home of Anna and Jakob.

A group photograph of participants in the Mariawohler reunion at West Lorne, Ontario, on August 6, 1950. Participants are former residents or descendants of former residents of the Mennonite village of Mariawohl (Molotschna, Russia) who immigrated to Canada in the 1920s. The reunion was held at the farm of John and Helen Warkentin.

Men from the St. Catharines area barbeque 3,000 pork tenderloin for sale at the Ontario Mennonite Relief Sale, 1974