Workshop at Lake Cowichan camp
- CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-32
- Item
- [1942 or 1943]
Caption on back reads: "Shop at L. Cowichan."
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Workshop at Lake Cowichan camp
Caption on back reads: "Shop at L. Cowichan."
Alternative Service workers designing and testing a portable saw near Vancouver. The saw would be used to cut wood for the winter due to a fuel shortage. See Hist.Mss.22.1_1-15 to 19.
Woodshed at Lake Cowichan camp
Caption on back reads: "At L. Cowichan. Woodhouse to keep wood dry."
Train stop along the way to British Columbia
Alternative Service workers on the train from Ontario to British Columbia in 1942 take some exercise at a stop.
Caption on back reads: "When the tree is falling. Pictures are all the same tree. Boys took their camera out one day and all took a turn at the same tree to have their pictures taken. Always have the same saw partner." Photo is of six Alternative Service workers felling a tree. See also Hist.Mss.22.1_1-8, 11 and 27.
Caption on back reads: "On the highway in front of the camp, facing Yale, bridge over Emory Creek in distance." Roadside sign to the left reads "Emory Lodge."
Caption on back reads: "On the station road."
Mike Bohonoski and Ray Good with saw
Len Bechtel with railroad superintendent car
Caption on back reads: "Railroad superintendent car taken in front of camp the time they put a new deck on bridge."
Alternative Service workers designing and testing a portable saw near Vancouver. The saw would be used to cut wood for the winter due to a fuel shortage. See Hist.Mss.22.1_1-15 to 19.
Len Bechtel with building he built at Lake Cowichan
Caption on back reads: "Len Bechtel. Oil [sic] house he built at L. Cowichan."
Len Bechtel photograph collection
Consists of photographs taken or collected by Bechtel during his time in Alternative Service.
Bechtel, Len, 1916-2009
Jake and George Peters with felled tree
See also Hist.Mss.22.1_1-7,8 and 11. Jake (Jacob) and George Peters were brothers from Kitchener, Ontario.