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Len Bechtel photograph collection Conscientious objectors
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A portable saw

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

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

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.

Emory Creek camp

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 .

Entrance to Emory Creek camp

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]."

Felling a tree

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.

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