Emory Creek dining hall and kitchen staff
- CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2-7_11
- Einzelstück
- 1942-6
Caption in album reads: "Dining hall and kitchen staff: 1 - Mike Bohonoski, Kitchener; 2 - Andrew Bowman, Bridgeport; 3 - George Thompson, Sarnia."
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Emory Creek dining hall and kitchen staff
Caption in album reads: "Dining hall and kitchen staff: 1 - Mike Bohonoski, Kitchener; 2 - Andrew Bowman, Bridgeport; 3 - George Thompson, Sarnia."
Len Bechtel photograph collection
Consists of photographs taken or collected by Bechtel during his time in Alternative Service.
Bechtel, Len
Caption on back reads: "Foreman Ab[e] Cathcart, Sub-foreman (a full-blooded Indian)."
Caption in album reads: "The Fraser river runs about 200 feet from 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."
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 .
The married men at Emory Creek
Caption in album reads: "The married group at Emory Creek: 1 - George Thompson [Sarnia, Ontario]; 2 - Delford Bechtel [Baden, Ontario]; 3 - Martin Wiens [New Hamburg, Ontario]; 4 - Leonard Bechtel [Preston, Ontario]; 5 - Freeman Dungy [Windsor, Ontario]."
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.
Walking to work up the mountain
Caption in album reads: "Going five miles up the mountain to work. The [fire fighting] trail will be ten miles when done."
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 at Emory Creek
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 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.
Jesse B. Martin photograph albums
Contains four photograph albums of Alternative Service camps. Photographs were taken or collected by Jesse B. Martin. A sample of photographs from these albums is described in the database. For the complete albums, see Hist.Mss.1.34.2.2 at the Mennonite Archives of Ontario.
Martin, J. B. ( Jesse Bauman), 1897-1974
Jesse B. Martin and Freeman Dungy
Caption in album reads: "Freeman Dungy, Windsor (Colored) and I. Dungy is a colored C.O. and belongs to Church of God in Christ." Left to right: Jesse B. Martin, Freeman Dungy
Playing baseball at Emory Creek camp
Caption in album reads: "Recreation time - Boys playing ball."