- CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-13
- Item
- [1942 or 1943]
Caption on back reads: "A steel-head salmon Raymond Good caught on the Robison [Robertson] river." Ray Good is possibly the man on the left.
34 results with digital objects Show results with digital objects
Caption on back reads: "A steel-head salmon Raymond Good caught on the Robison [Robertson] river." Ray Good is possibly the man on the left.
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.
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.
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.
Alternative Service workers building a stone wall
Caption on back reads: "Building stone wall, and are we busy? L. Cowichan."
Alternative Service workers taking up railway ties
Same photograph at CA MAO 1987-6 19. Alternative Service workers tearing up wooden ties from an old railroad bed to make way for a gravel road.
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.
Crew tearing up railroad near Lake Cowichan
Group of Alternative Service workers standing in front of a speeder railroad vehicle.
Ed Roberts, foreman at Cowichan
Ed Roberts, a foreman at the Cowichan Alternative Service camp, listens to the radio.
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 .
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]."
Caption on back reads: "Andy and Jake Peters pulling in the undercut." Jacob Peters is from Kitchener, Ontario. "Andy" is possibly Andrew Bowman (Bridgeport, Ontario). See also Hist.Mss.22.1_1-7,8 and 27.