Alternative Service bunk houses
- CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.9-80
- Item
- [between 1942 and 1944]
Caption on back reads: "These are our bunk houses taken from the back."
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Alternative Service bunk houses
Caption on back reads: "These are our bunk houses taken from the back."
Alternative Service fire fighters
Caption on back reads: "Our fire crew"
Alternative Service workeres in camp
Alternative Service workers pose outside a cabin, probably at the Goldstream (Langford) camp. Front row: Tobias Bowman, Clifford Cressman, Walter Keffer, Elias Brubacher. Back row: Clayton Wismer, Bill Ennson [or Eunsen or Eunson], Mervin Wismer, Willard Geiger.
Alternative Service workers assembling a building
Caption on back reads: "The Hall under construction." Alternative Service workers building a hall or chapel on the grounds of the Langford Camp, using materials available to them.
Alternative Service workers in rain hats
Caption on back reads: "These four pictures are 'us' with our new rain proof hats (no two hats are alike for shape)." Front (seated): Leonard Burkholder. Middle (left to right): Ward Shuh, Monroe Jutzi, Leonard Witmer, Clayton Burkholder, Ed Weber. Back (left to right): Fred Cressman, Rufus Jutzi. Probably Goldstream (Langford) camp.
Alternative Service workers in rain hats
Alternative Service workers pose outside of a cabin at a work camp wearing their rain hats. Identified on back of photo: Irvin Weber, Carl Zimmerman, Ray Good, Nyal Shantz, Melvin Kropf, Melvin Burkhart. Probably Goldstream (Langford) camp.
Alternative Service workers outside the camp office
Alternative Service workers pose outside the office of a work camp. Identified on back: Alf the cook, John L. Fretz, Paul Neil, Ward Shuh, Fred Cressman. Probably Goldstream (Langford) camp.
Alternative Service workers waiting to go to C4 camp
Caption in album reads: "Waiting for buses to go to Vancouver and take boat to Victoria on Island. The paper bags contain their dinner. [Illegible words] boat trip to Island." Fred Cressman's photo album indicates that this group is bound for C4 (Langford) camp. Cressman identifies the men (left to right): Elias Brubacher, Tobias Bowman, Joe Banyai, Melvin Kropf, Melvin Burkhart, Blake Snider, Clayton Wismer, Walter Keffer, Nyal Shantz, Ward Shuh, Len Witmer, Mervin Wismer, Willard Geiger, Rufus Jutzi, Bill Eunson, Munro Jutzi, Raymond Good, Carl Zimmerman, Clifford Cressman, Irvin Weber, John Fretz, Fred Cressman, Clayton Burkholder. Ed Weber is absent from the photo.
Part of Fred Cressman photograph album
Rufus Jutzi and Mervin Wismer assembling a wash house roof at Goldstream Alternative Service Work Camp, near Langford, British Columbia. Caption in album reads: "Assembling the wash house roof Goldstream, 6/42." Caption on back of photo reads: "Rufus Jutzi and Mervin Wismer putting up wash house at Langford; 9/42."
Part of Fred Cressman photograph album
Conscientious Objectors playing a game of baseball in a hay field close to Goldstream Alternative Service Work Camp, near Langford, British Columbia. Caption in album reads: "C.O. ball game in neighbours hay field—Camp Goldstream, 7/42." Caption on back of photo reads: "Playing ball at the Langford Camp; 9/42."
Caption on back reads: "Robertson Valley where we are working with Ben Veer in the foreground. He is the Cat man's helper." The Robertson River Valley near Lake Cowichan was a tree planting area.
Caption in album reads: "Building dining tent. Splitting wood. Building wood house."
Building the staff office at Langford
Caption in album reads: "Corners are not nailed but locked together so then can be taken away and moved. Building the office for staff: 1 - Fred Cressman; 2 - Raymond Good; 3 - Tobias Bauman; 4 - Elias Brubacher; 5 - [illegible]"
Part of Fred Cressman photograph album
Group photo of the men lodging in Bunk House #1 at Goldstream Alternative Service Work Camp, near Langford, British Columbia. Caption in album reads: "Bunk House #1, names on back." Caption on back of photo reads: "Ray Good, Nyal Shantz, Carl Zimmerman, Joe Baneyea, Melvin Burkhart, Melvin Kropf, Blake Snider, Irvin Weber; 8/42."
Part of Fred Cressman photograph album
Group photo of the men lodging in Bunk House #3 at Goldstream Alternative Service Work Camp, near Langford, British Columbia. Caption in album reads: "Bunk House #3, names on back." Caption on back of photo reads: "Elias Brubacher, Mervin Wismer, Tobias Bowman, Clayton Wismer, Willard Geiger, Clifford Cressman, Walter Keffer, Bill Eunson; 8/42."