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The Island young people often spent Sunday afternoons singing and playing musical instruments. Card playing was a masculine pastime; women were not included and many parents disapproved of card playing on Sunday.

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Nick and Agnes Wiens who lived at the Island's North End
1930
Pelee Island, Ontario

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Eating watermelon on the bridge near the West Side pump house
1932
Pelee Island, Ontario

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34

Pelee Island young people at the home of Isaac and Maria Klassen
1944
Pelee Island, Ontario

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35

Leamington Youth Picnic
1946
Pelee Island, Ontario

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36

Hedy Wiebe and Rosemary Girardin on a boat ride
1948
Pelee Island, Ontario

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Later, baseball and segregated swimming during the summer months became popular. Gerhard Wiebe remembers his mother swimming with him and his brothers at the West beach in the 1940s. "She was about 20 or 30 feet away from us, waist deep in the water (with a bathing suit), washing herself." He also remembers that on Sundays, his family would visit the cemetery on the North End of the Island, sometimes trying to find the oldest tombstone, or they would go to see the American "$1000/foot yachts" and Chris-Craft motorboats from Sandusky, Ohio tied at the North dock. "We would swim and dive off the North dock...There were times we went to the North end (Lighthouse) beach. There were jars of Freshie to drink and sandwiches. The adults would sit on blankets and tghe kids would swim."

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Dick children enjoying a summer Sunday afternoon on the West Side beach
1927
Pelee Island, Ontario

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39

Playing outside on a cold day
1941
Pelee Island, Ontario

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40

Drinking Coke at the Gossen farm
Circa 1943
Pelee Island, Ontario

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41

At the Reimer home on Henderson Road
1944
Pelee Island, Ontario

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42

Walter Klassen is giving Fred Wiebe a ride in the wheelbarrow
1944
Pelee Island, Ontario

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43

Four friends. Back: Hedy Wiebe, Ruby Epp. Front: Helen Heinrichs, Anne Wiebe
1944
Pelee Island, Ontario

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Gerhard Wiebe's first bike on his ninth birthday
1949
Pelee Island, Ontario

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Essex Kent Mennonite Historical Association