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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.

Caption in album reads: "The truck hauling the men to work." The truck is identified as an International, 1941 or later.

Caption in album reads: "Rev. and Mrs. Jacob Wiens family, Vancouver, B.C." Jacob B. and Erna Wiens are pictured outside with their children Ernst, Elfriede, and Hans.

Caption in album reads: "Elmer Martin, Floradale, caught a young deer - Boys huts in rear - See wash line."

Caption in album reads: "Tool and repair shop. 1 - Leonard Bechtel, Preston, Ont; 2 - Mr. Schmidt, Sask."

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]"

Caption reads: "Boys at Seymour Camp near Dollarton, ten miles to Vancouver." Jessie B. Martin is standing at front, far right in plain coat.

Left to right: E. J. Swalm, Jesse B. Martin, J. Harold Shirk, Noah Bearinger. They are standing in front of a summer sleeping tent. Identification from Darrell Frey, Called to be a Soldier, p. 106.

Caption in album reads: "The cook and his wife, two of the helpers, standing in front of the kitchen." Harold J. Schmidt at far right.Cook at Seymour Mountain was Frank O. Reece according to J.B. Martin's World War II Memorandum book. So the cook and wife are Mr. and Mrs. Reece?

Caption in album reads: "The camp grounds - 1 - Dining hall; 2 - Meat and food house; 3 - Tool and repair shed; 4 - Sleeping bunks."

Caption in album reads: "The group at Emory Creek Camp, two miles from Yale and ninety miles east of Vancouver." Standing, left to right: Peter Langeman (Leamington, Ontario), Andrew Bowman (Bridgeport, Ontario), Daniel B. Klassen (Leamington), Mike Buhaneski (Kitchener, Ontario), William Turner (Kitchener), Edgar Dyck (Preston, Ontario), Daddy ? (Preston), Henry Langeman (Ruthven, Ontario), Martin Wiens (New Hamburg, Ontario), Kenneth McIver (Vancouver), George Thompson (Sarnia, Ontario), Charles Shorten (London, Ontario), John "Jack" Boldt (Kitchener), Bernard Neufield (Leamington). Seated in front, left to right: Freeman Dungy (Windsor), Serenus Wideman (Ontario), Bruce Gowing (Preston), Jacob "Jake" Peters (Kitchener), Delford Bechtel (Baden, Ontario), Peter "Pete" Wiens (Leamington), George Peters (Long Lac or Kitchener), Heinrich "Henry" Epp (Ruthven), Ferdinand "Fred" Reimer (Kingsville, Ontario). Wilson Hunsberger notes that Wilfred Erickson and Bruce Ruppert were gone to get the mail.

Caption in album reads: "Dining hall and kitchen staff: 1 - Mike Bohonoski, Kitchener; 2 - Andrew Bowman, Bridgeport; 3 - George Thompson, Sarnia."

Caption in album reads: "Notice the packs on boys backs. Contains food, blankets, etc. Will stay up in the mountains several days and nights. They are building a fire fighting trail. Wide enough for a horse to go up."

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."