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Len Bechtel photograph collection Emory Creek Alternative Service Work Camp (Hope, British Columbia)
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Len Bechtel photograph collection

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1
  • Akt
  • 1942-1944

Consists of photographs taken or collected by Bechtel during his time in Alternative Service.

Bechtel, Len

Road to Emory Creek camp

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."

Emory Creek camp

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 .

Fred Ray, cook at Emory Creek

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.

Entrance to Emory Creek camp

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]."