L-R: Charles Shorten and Charles Chambers sawing
- CA MAO 1987-6 16
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- 1943
L-R: Charles Shorten and Charles Chambers sawing down a large tree in the Alternative Service work camp in British Columbia, ca. 1943.
Fretz, John L.
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L-R: Charles Shorten and Charles Chambers sawing
L-R: Charles Shorten and Charles Chambers sawing down a large tree in the Alternative Service work camp in British Columbia, ca. 1943.
Fretz, John L.
James Donald Millar, a cook's helper
James Donald Millar, a cook's helper in a conscientious objector camp in British Columbia in 1941. Better known as Donald Millar.
Footbridge at an Alternative Service work camp
Caption on back reads: "The foot bridge between our houses and the office and cook house. This bridge was formerly the only trail thru this section of the Island. Even before their [sic] were any roads built - it is very old and a little shakey."
Alternative Service men at work
Alternative Service men at work, possibly creating a fire trail.
Alternative Service worker drinking water
Melvin Burkhardt and Irvin Weber
Melvin Burkhardt and Irvin Weber, Alternative Service workers from Waterloo, Ontario
Building, possibly a home or cottage, by a lake near an Alternative Service work camp.
Alternative Service workers on a bridge
Filming of "The Commandos Strike at Dawn"
Actors in German solders' uniforms on a mountaintop with artillery near Victoria, British Columbia
Location is possibly British Columbia. A.J. Klassen's Alternative Service for Peace lists a Harold Ashley from Toronto, Ontario. The photo appears to be a wedding picture. A list in the Mennonite Archives of Ontario indicates he was a Christadelphian from Longbranch, Ontario.
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.
Crew wetting down a railroad fire
Part of Fred Cressman photograph album
A crew putting out a railroad fire with water transported there on a dolly. Caption in album reads: "Crew wetting down RR fire with water from section crew’s dolly." Caption on back of photo reads: "At work on a RR. fire one Sunday morning; 9/42."