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Only top-level descriptions Mennonite Archives of Ontario World War, 1939-1945 - Conscientious objectors
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The recreation room / library / lounge area at

  • CA MAO 1987-6 21
  • Item
  • 1943

The recreation room / library / lounge area at the alternative service work camp at Lake Cowichan, British Columbia, ca. 1943. Interior shot.

Fretz, John L.

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.

Len Bechtel photograph collection

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1
  • File
  • 1942-1944

Consists of photographs taken or collected by Bechtel during his time in Alternative Service.

Bechtel, Len

Sorting chocolate bars to sell at camp

  • CA MAO 2015-1-69
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Stanley Sauder and Irvin Bender (Baden, Ontario) sort chocolate bars to sell to their fellow Alternative Service workers at Montreal River.

Unknown

Leaving for work

  • CA MAO 2015-1-73
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Alternative Service workers on a truck leaving camp for work

Sauder, Stanley

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

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

Men around Christmas tree at conscientious

  • CA MAO 1987-6 20
  • Item
  • 1943

Men around Christmas tree at conscientious objector work camp at Lake Cowichan, British Columbia. L-R: Irvin Weber, Andy Bowman, Mike Bohonoski, Elias Brubacher, Tobias Bowman, Raymond Good

Fretz, John L.

Wilson Hunsberger photograph album

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.3
  • File
  • 1941-1944

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

Hunsberger, Wilson A., 1919-2008

The barn Stanley Sauder worked on

  • CA MAO 2015-1-63
  • Item
  • [between 1943 and 1946]

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

Sauder, Stanley

Irvin Bender and Orval Yantzi

  • CA MAO 2015-1-74
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

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.

Sauder, Stanley

Stanley Sauder and friends at camp

  • CA MAO 2015-1-75
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

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

Unknown

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