- CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-9
- Item
- 1942
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 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: "Kitchen and dining room, meat house and tool shed, whash [wash] house in distance between meat house and tool shed on picture, also our Bunk house behind tool shed is quite a bit lower. Picture was taken in front of Ab's [Abe Cathcart's] office which is quite a bit higher than rest of the camp's, is about same level as railroad." See also: Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-7_14 .
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."
Caption on back reads: "Fred Ray the cook. Looks strange with his bald head usually has a Jeffs [chef's?] cap on." Sign in background reads: "Notice: This ground is reserved for Placer Mining by the Province of British Columbia extending from Emory Creek, south 600 ft. north 2900 ft and easterly from the Canadian Pacific track one half-mile." Sign is on the "Dominion Provincial Mining Training Project" gate.
Caption on back reads: "Entrance to camp, boys coming up the steps, with packs on their back [making] their way up the mountain trail. Left to right: Martin Wiens, Eddy Dick [Edgar Dyck], Jake [Jacob] Peters, Jack [John] Boldt, Dan Klassen, Abe Cathcart foreman, Del [Delford Bechtel]."
Caption on back reads: "Foreman Ab[e] Cathcart, Sub-foreman (a full-blooded Indian)."
Brother Wiens and Brother Sherk
Left to right: "Bro. Wiens," J. Harold Sherk in front of sign at Emory Creek. "Bro. Wiens" could be Jacob B. Wiens of Vancouver.
Alternative Service workers leaving camp to work on a fire trail
Caption in album reads: "The present camp was a former mining camp. Gold washing from Fraser. Boys starting out for a two days work in the mountains. Stay out over night." Sign behind the group reads "Dominion Provincial Mining Training Project."
Caption in album reads: "Five miles up the mountain eating a good dinner - Tea, beans, sandwiches, honey, etc - The smoke comes from the open fire where meal is heated." The group is building a fire fighting trail.
Walking to work up the mountain
Caption in album reads: "Going five miles up the mountain to work. The [fire fighting] trail will be ten miles when done."
Building a shelter to sleep in the mountains
Caption in album reads: "Taking the bark of a big 125 feet cedar tree to build a shelter to sleep under up in the mountains." The men are in the mountains to build a fire trail.
John Boldt and Mike Bohonoski eating dinner
Caption in album reads: "John Boldt and Mike the cooks on the mountain eating dinner." Boldt was from Kitchener, Ontario.
Playing baseball at Emory Creek camp
Caption in album reads: "Recreation time - Boys playing ball."
Caption in album reads: "The Fraser river runs about 200 feet from camp."
Jesse B. Martin and Freeman Dungy
Caption in album reads: "Freeman Dungy, Windsor (Colored) and I. Dungy is a colored C.O. and belongs to Church of God in Christ." Left to right: Jesse B. Martin, Freeman Dungy