Len Bechtel photograph collection
- CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1
- File
- 1942-1944
Consists of photographs taken or collected by Bechtel during his time in Alternative Service.
Bechtel, Len
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Len Bechtel photograph collection
Consists of photographs taken or collected by Bechtel during his time in Alternative Service.
Bechtel, Len
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: "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.
Len Bechtel with building he built at Lake Cowichan
Caption on back reads: "Len Bechtel. Oil [sic] house he built at L. Cowichan."
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.
Ed Roberts, foreman at Cowichan
Ed Roberts, a foreman at the Cowichan Alternative Service camp, listens to the radio.
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 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.
Caption on back reads: "Foreman Ab[e] Cathcart, Sub-foreman (a full-blooded Indian)."
Caption on back reads: "On the station road."
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]."