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Used in CM 7-32-5. Caption: Pete Neufeld, a unit member, waits to take a patient down the elevator in the Princess Elizabeth Hospital. Taken Aug. 1959.

Photo of a lake, Pelican Lake? near which the Man. Sanitorium was located. Reeds is the water in the foreground.

Two post card photos (professionally done) of all the buildings of the Man. Sanitorium, on the hillside, surrounded by trees & in one photo with a lake (Pelican Lake?) in the foreground. There was an MCC VS unit working here.

Building of the Man. School at P.la P. where an MCC VS unit worked. Note on back:"Examination building. Here patients were examined & most of the times transfered to with M. or N. buildings."

Building of the Man. School at P.la P. where MCC had a VS unit. Note on back:"N. Building. Usually patients that came into this building stayed for a long period of time. Some up to 30-40 yrs."

Group photo of the nurses in their uniforms that did VS work at the Manitoba Sanitorium, Ninette, Man. Same women as in 1994-14.1286 where 7 of the 9 women were attending the VS retreat at Clear Lake.

Buildings of the Man. School in Portage la Prairie, for the mentally handicapped; a VS unit worked there. Note on back:"Main building. The largest building on the grounds. Held about 900 patients." See CM2-29-8, 2-34-7, 4-2-4

Man. School at P.la P. where MCC had a VS unit. Note on back:"Monument on hospital grounds." It consists of stones piled as high as the lowest trees.

A nurse at the Man. Sanitorium is taking the pulse of a patient who is wearing a big Mexican hat. The name Erna is written on the top. Dates from late '40's? See 1994-14.1303f.

Used in CM 3-42-4. MCC workers (large group) at annual Bible Cf., Oct. 6-9. Pax chorus sang, led by John P. Derksen [?], pax pastor; Orley Swartzentruber (miss. in Paris) spoke. C.D. Kaufman, European MCC dir. is in front, far r.

Linked to a Manitoba school on Portage la Prairie where MCC had a VS unit. Note on back:"MCC car. We used it on a tour that the unit made." The car is a 1946 Ford.

Dedication of Mennonite Mobile Canteen, Birmingham, England, May 2, 1941; it was purchased & given to the city. l-r: Mayor, J.E. Coffman, Mayoress & 2 other women. See "England notes" Dec.'44 & Feb.'45. John Coffman's photo.

Used in the CM 8-5-3. Harvey Taves (left), guest speaker at the B.C. Mennonite Youth Organization sessions held in Abbotsford, converses with former summer service members. See related photo in 2010-14.121.

Informal. Ann Falk, a nurse serving with Mennonite Central Committee is in the Rung Lang Refugee Camp in Quang Ngai, Vietnam, December, 1966. Not found in CM. She wears a jacket with the Man. university logo where she probably studied.

Used in CM 11-30-10. Caption:"Mrs. Alvin Friesen (center) Taiwanese wife of medical missionary Dr. Alvin Friesen of Meadow Lake, Sask. is welcomed to Canada by former MCC worker, Margaret Peters, R.N. of Gretna and Sue Martens, R.N. missionary to Taiwan on furlough." At the CMC annual meeting in Altona, Man.