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Before the Sunday morning worship service began, small groups of men often met to discuss politics and other topics of interest. The women would watch the children and help the woman of the house with the noon meal for everyone which often followed the service.

The work week consisted of six days and Sunday was the only day off. Saturdays were spent cleaning the house and yard, and baking and cooking for Sunday, as baking on Sunday was unheard of. Sunday was spent visiting with, or entertaining friends and relatives.

15

Women on a Sunday afternoon
1932
Pelee Island, Ontario

Credits:
Essex Kent Mennonite Historical Association

16

Agatha Driedger, Hilda Thiessen and Erna Fast wearing aprons to serve at an anniversary party
1936
Pelee Island, Ontario

Credits:
Essex Kent Mennonite Historical Association

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Social life picked up in spring when the boat ran and many friends and relatives came to visit the Island families, often spending several days and nights with them.

18

Smoke break
Circa 1940
Pelee Island, Ontario

Credits:
Essex Kent Mennonite Historical Association

19

Uncle John Wiebe (right) with a visitor from the mainland
1940
Pelee Island, Ontario

Credits:
Essex Kent Mennonite Historical Association

20

Summer near the Isaac Klassen home
1940
Pelee Island, Ontario

Credits:
Essex Kent Mennonite Historical Association

21

Visitors gather at the Wiebe house on Parsons Road for Ewald Wiebe's 31st birthday
22 May 1940
Pelee Island, Ontario

Credits:
Essex Kent Mennonite Historical Association

22

Widows Anna Wiebe and Maria Braun visiting at the Isaac Klassen home on a Sunday afternoon
Circa 1940
Pelee Island, Ontario

Credits:
Essex Kent Mennonite Historical Association

23

The Klassen home on the West Side
1942
Pelee Island, Ontario

Credits:
Essex Kent Mennonite Historical Association

24

Mainland girls visiting Pelee on a hot summer Sunday afternoon
1943
Pelee Island, Ontario

Credits:
Essex Kent Mennonite Historical Association

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In the summer of 1946, the Leamington youth group, with youth leader Jacob C. Neufeld, arrived at the Pelee Dock, dressed in their Sunday best. Here they were loaded on to Henry Cornies�, Ewald Wiebe�s, and Jake Gossen�s trucks and transported along the Island�s dusty gravel roads. They hung onto the truck racks for dear life and were treated to a picnic lunch on the East Side.

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Henry Cornies' GMC
1946
Pelee Island, Ontario

Credits:
Essex Kent Mennonite Historical Association

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Jake Gossen's Ford
1946
Pelee Island, Ontario

Credits:
Essex Kent Mennonite Historical Association