Mennonite Archival Information Database

Foremen at Emory Creek

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-2
Item
1942

Part of Len Bechtel photograph collection

Caption on back reads: "Foreman Ab[e] Cathcart, Sub-foreman (a full-blooded Indian)."

Fred Ray, cook at Emory Creek

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-23
Item
1942

Part of Len Bechtel photograph collection

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.

Hall in Cowichan Alternative Service camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-33
Item
1943

Part of Len Bechtel photograph collection

Interior of a building in an Alternative Service camp, probably a recreation hall at Cowichan. Books are arranged on a wall shelf, and a ping pong table is in the foreground. A pulpit is against one wall with benches facing it.

Henry Langeman and Martin Wiens felling a tree

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-8
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Len Bechtel photograph collection

Left to right: Henry Langeman (Ruthven, Ontario) and Martin Wiens (New Hamburg, Ontario) felling a tree. Part of a sequence of photographs. See also: Hist.Mss.22.1_1-7,11 and 27.

Hillcrest Logging Mill

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-28
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Len Bechtel photograph collection

Caption on back reads: "Hill Crest saw mill at entrance to our camp just being built."

Irvin Weber with bulldozer

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-10
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Len Bechtel photograph collection

Jake and George Peters with felled tree

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-27
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Len Bechtel photograph collection

See also Hist.Mss.22.1_1-7,8 and 11. Jake (Jacob) and George Peters were brothers from Kitchener, Ontario.

Len Bechtel with building he built at Lake Cowichan

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-12
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Len Bechtel photograph collection

Caption on back reads: "Len Bechtel. Oil [sic] house he built at L. Cowichan."

Len Bechtel with portable saw

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-19
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Len Bechtel photograph collection

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 railroad superintendent car

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-25
Item
1942

Part of Len Bechtel photograph collection

Caption on back reads: "Railroad superintendent car taken in front of camp the time they put a new deck on bridge."

Mike Bohonoski and Ray Good with saw

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-5
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Len Bechtel photograph collection

Road in the woods

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-20
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Len Bechtel photograph collection

Caption on back reads: "On the station road."

Road to Emory Creek camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-9
Item
1942

Part of Len Bechtel photograph collection

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."

Swimming in Lake Cowichan

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-30
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Len Bechtel photograph collection

The tree is falling

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-7
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Len Bechtel photograph collection

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.

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