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Alternative Service cabin at Montreal River camp

  • CA MAO 2011-1 4
  • Item
  • 1987

Photo is of a log cabin on the grounds of the Twilight Resort in Montreal River Harbour, Ontario. The cabin housed Mennonite Alternative Service men during World War II. Carved into one of the logs are the names of Alternative Service workers Wilmer Wagler (Shakespeare, Ontario), Emerson Wagler (Shakespeare, Ontario), Moses G. Martin and Joe Martin (Wallenstein, Ontario). The man identified as Moses G. Martin could possibly be Morris Martin or Mahlon Martin; no Moses G. Martin is found in the Alternative Service lists.

Ruth Fletcher

Alternative service work camp at Lake Cowichan

  • CA MAO 1987-6 18
  • Item
  • [between 1942 and 1944]

Alternative service work camp at Lake Cowichan, British Columbia in 1943. This is a picture of some camp buildings.

Fretz, John L.

Cave at camp

  • CA MAO 2015-1-77
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Caption on back: "cave made at camp."

Sauder, Stanley

Conscientious objectors tearing up wooden ties

  • CA MAO 1987-6 19
  • Item
  • [between 1942 and 1944]

Conscientious objectors tearing up wooden ties from an old railroad bed to make way for a gravel road in British Columbia, ca. 1943.

Fretz, John L.

Cooks at Alternative Service work camp at Lake

  • CA MAO 1987-6 17
  • Item
  • [between 1942 and 1944]

Cooks at Alternative Service work camp at Lake Cowichan, British Columbia ca. 1943 L-R: --, --, Seranus Wideman, Elias Brubacher, --, --, Nyal Shantz

Fretz, John L.

Dining hall at Montreal River camp

  • CA MAO 2015-1-64
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

The dining hall at Montreal River set for a meal, with kitchen staff

Sauder, Stanley

Dump boat for rock disposal

  • CA MAO 2015-1-71
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Alternative Service workers with a dump boat they made for disposing of rocks during road building work.

Sauder, Stanley

Dump boat for rock disposal

  • CA MAO 2015-1-70
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Alternative Service workers with a dump boat they made for disposing of rocks during road building work.

Sauder, Stanley

Ice bridge at Montreal River

  • CA MAO 2015-1-68
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Alternative Service workers explore an ice bridge at Montreal River near Lake Superior

Sauder, Stanley

Interior of bunkhouse at Cowichan

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.6_2
  • Item
  • 1943

Bunkhouse at the alternative service work camp at Lake Cowichan, British Columbia, ca. 1943. Interior shot.

Brubacher, Isaac

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

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.

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