Boys on horseback pose in front of the main entrance to the Ailsa Craig Boys Farm, a home for troubled boys, in the 1960s. The farm, begun in 1955, was the brainchild of Jack Wall. With the help of Harvey Taves at Mennonite Central Committee and a handful of families eager to start mission work with a social welfare focus in Ailsa Craig, Ont., he gained support for the project from Ontario Mennonite churches. This was just one example of Canadian Mennonites looking for ways to demonstrate God’s love by setting up organizations to serve their local communities in the post-war era. Can you think of others?
Text: Laureen Harder-Gissing / Mennonite Archives of Ontario
Mennonite Archival Image Database (MAID) at archives.mhsc.ca
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I was one of the boys at boys farm and would like to get in touch with any of the boys that were their when i was
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