Train stop along the way to British Columbia
- CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-4
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- Jun 1942
Alternative Service workers on the train from Ontario to British Columbia in 1942 take some exercise at a stop.
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Alternative Service workers taking up railway ties
- CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-6
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- [1942 or 1943]
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
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- [1942 or 1943]
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.
- CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-9
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- 1942
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."
- CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-10
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- [1942 or 1943]
Len Bechtel with building he built at Lake Cowichan
- CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-12
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- [1942 or 1943]
Caption on back reads: "Len Bechtel. Oil [sic] house he built at L. Cowichan."
- CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-13
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- [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.
- CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-20
- Item
- [1942 or 1943]
Caption on back reads: "On the station road."
- CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-26
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- 1942
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 .
Jake and George Peters with felled tree
- CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-27
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- [1942 or 1943]
See also Hist.Mss.22.1_1-7,8 and 11. Jake (Jacob) and George Peters were brothers from Kitchener, Ontario.
- CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-30
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- [1942 or 1943]
- CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-35
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- [1942 or 1943]
Alternative Service workers building a stone wall
- CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-3
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- [1942 or 1943]
Caption on back reads: "Building stone wall, and are we busy? L. Cowichan."
- CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-7
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- [1942 or 1943]
Caption on back reads: "When the tree is falling. Pictures are all the same tree. Boys took their camera out one day and all took a turn at the same tree to have their pictures taken. Always have the same saw partner." Photo is of six Alternative Service workers felling a tree. See also Hist.Mss.22.1_1-8, 11 and 27.
- CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-23
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- 1942
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.
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