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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.

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]"

Bunk House Number Two

Group photo of the men lodging in Bunk House #2 at Goldstream Alternative Service Work Camp, near Langford, British Columbia. Caption in album reads: "Bunk House #2, names on back." Caption on back of photo reads: "Fr. Cressman, Ruffus Jutzi, Clayton Burkholder, Ed Weber, Len Witmer, John Fretz, Munro Jutzi, Ward Shuh, From left to right; 8/42."

Cliff Cressman, Fred Cressman, Ed Weber, and Len Witmer on train

Cliff Cressman, Fred Cressman, Ed Weber, and Len Witmer sitting in a train car during their voyage to British Columbia. Caption in album reads: "Cliff Cressman, Fred, Ed Weber, Len Witmer on way to BC." Caption on back of photo reads: "Cliff Cressman, Fred Cressman, Ed Weber, Len Witmer on the train on the way out."

Fred Cressman at Buchart Gardens

Fred Cressman standing in front of a rose arch in Buchart Gardens, British Columbia. Caption in album reads: "Fred—Buchart Gardens, 8/42." Caption on back of photo reads: "In front of a rose arch Butchart Gardens."

Fred Cressman mending clothes

Fred Cressman siting on the outside stairs of a cabin at Goldstream Alternative Service Work Camp, near Langford, British Columbia, repairing some clothes with a needle and thread. Caption in album reads: "Fred doing clothes repairs—needle and thread." Caption on back of photo reads: "A little sewing job; 9/42."

Fred Cressman on Shawnigan Lake

Fred Cressman in a row boat on Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia. Caption in album reads: "Fred—Shawnigan Lake, 8/42." Caption on back of photo reads: "Myself in boat on Shawningan Lake."

Fred Cressman photograph album

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.137.6
  • File
  • 1942-1943

The album contains photographs of Cressman's time as a conscientious objector in Alternative Service in British Columbia from 1942-1943. Although primarily based at the Goldstream (Langford) camp, Cressman and the other COs sometimes worked in the local community or in other CO camps on Vancouver Island. Most of the men in the photographs are fellow COs from Ontario, along with a few staff of the British Columbia Forestry Service.

Cressman, Fred

Group discussion on WWII alternative service

Two photos very similar to one used in Bull., SSCM, May 31, 1963, p.4. Group discussion on WWII alternative service, led by panel at front: E.J.. Swalm, J. B. Martin, H.H. Epp, Cornelius Baerg, Enos Bearinger, Pete Neufeld, Fred Cressman. Negs for these 2 photos and 7 negs show additional views of the group.

Epp, Henry H., 1925-2010

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