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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.
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.
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]."
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."
Train stop along the way to British Columbia
Alternative Service workers on the train from Ontario to British Columbia in 1942 take some exercise at a stop.