Mennonite Archival Information Database

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

Part of Len Bechtel photograph collection

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-11
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[1942 or 1943]

Part of Len Bechtel photograph collection

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.

Working on a portable saw

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-15
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.

A portable saw

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-16
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.

A portable saw

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-17
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.

Workshop at Lake Cowichan camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-32
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Len Bechtel photograph collection

Caption on back reads: "Shop at L. Cowichan."

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."

Alternative Service workers taking up railway ties

CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-6
Item
[1942 or 1943]

Part of Len Bechtel photograph collection

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.

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.