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Mary Martha Home Photograph Collection With digital objects
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608 Mountain Ave.

This photo is of the house at 608 Mountain Avenue in which the Mary Martha Home began. The C.N. Hieberts, city missionaries, lived in the house along with Anna J. Thiessen. Beginning in the fall of 1925 young immigrant women began moving into the house with them. The Mary Martha Home was established here and the women stayed until a move to a different home on Boyd Avenue in August 1928. See Anna Thiessen's "The City Mission in Winnipeg" [translation 1991 by Ida Toews]

Note This photo was taken from a newspaper.

Chopping wood

This photo is of three women and a small boy chopping wood. According to Anna Thiessen's "The City Mission of Winnipeg" page 47-48, they are identified as left to right: Mrs. Janzen with her son, Njuta Toews and Tina Friesen. Mrs. Janzen can be assumed to be part of the family which occupied the downstairs of the house, and the other two women among the residents of the Mary Martha Home.

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