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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.
Fred Cressman photograph album
The album contains photographs of Cressman's time as a conscientious objector in Alternative Service in British Columbia from 1942-1943. Although primarily based at the Goldstream (Langford) camp, Cressman and the other COs sometimes worked in the local community or in other CO camps on Vancouver Island. Most of the men in the photographs are fellow COs from Ontario, along with a few staff of the British Columbia Forestry Service.
Cressman, Fred
Part of Fred Cressman photograph album
Five men creating a fire trail through the woods. Caption in album reads: "Making fire trail." Caption on back of photo reads: "Putting in fire trail on Hollem fire."
Cutting firewood from a felled snag
Part of Fred Cressman photograph album
A man in the process of cutting firewood from a fallen tree trunk. Caption in album reads: "Cutting firewood length from a felled snag."
Tobias Bowman and Elias Brubacher peeling potatoes
Part of Fred Cressman photograph album
Tobias Bowman and Elias Brubacher peeling potatoes. Caption in album reads: "Tobias Bowman, Elias Brubacher peelin potatoes."
Unidentified man with car. He is possibly holding a Bible. This photograph appears in the album on the same page as Hist.Mss.22.1.9.57 and Hist.Mss.22.1.9.56.
Playing baseball at an Alternative Service camp
Note on back reads: "Just after dinner - while the men were lifting rails." See also Hist.Mss.22.1.9-69.
Alternative Service workers splitting wood
Alternative Service workers swimming
Landscape near Alternative Service work camps
Alternative Service workers on a truck
Alternative Service workers on a truck, coming back to camp.
Henry Reimer, Elmer Reid, Ray Good, Joe Banyai, Roger Dean
Alternative Service workers Henry Reimer, Elmer Reid (Vancouver, British Columbia), Raymond Good (St. Jacobs, Ontario), Joe, Banyai (Wheatley, Ontario), and Roger Dean (Prince Albert, Saskatchewan) possibly tree planting.
Alternative Service workers in bunk house