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Alternative Service workers in front of a cabin
Caption in album reads: "three Markham Boys and one Rainham." Left to right: Leonard Burkholder (Markham, Ontario), Lorne (?) Wideman (Markham area), Vernon Yager (Selkirk, Ontario), Leonard Ramer (Markham, Ontario). All were part of Montreal River Group 5 (9 Dec 1941 - 11 Jul 1942).
Alternative Service workers in front of the Green Timbers wash house
Caption in album reads: "Wash house with shower bath. 1. Bruce Gowing, Preston; 2. Freeman Dungy, Windsor; 3. Edward [or Edgar?] Dyck, Preston; 4. Weins [or Wiens?]" Numbers correspond to numbers written on photograph.
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."
Alternative Service workers leaving Green Timbers for Seymour camp
Caption in album reads: "Ready to leave Green Timbers for Seymour Camp, Dollarton, B.C. (About twelve miles from Vancouver)."
Alternative Service workers reassembling a building
Alternative Service workers reassembling a building on the camp grounds for a garage. See also Hist.Mss. 1.34.2.2-8_13.
Alternative Service workers reporting to Green Timbers
Caption in album reads: "Line up for registration and receiving tag number."
Alternative Service workers tearing down a building for a garage
This building was moved to the camp for a garage.
Alternative Service workers waiting at the Green Timbers office
Alternative Service workers reporting to the Green Timbers station for assignments.
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.
Alternative Service workers with a bear they caught
Alternative Service workers working on a road
Caption in album reads: "Two miles past the Montreal River camp." Alternative Service workers with a truck work on a road bed.
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 reads: "Boys at Seymour Camp near Dollarton, ten miles to Vancouver." Jessie B. Martin is standing at front, far right in plain coat.
Broken windows at First Mennonite Church, Vancouver
Caption in album reads: "Notice the patches on the windows. This was done by those who do not agree with Mennonites." Two boarded up ground floor windows of the church are shown with broken glass.
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.