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
Mike Bohonoski and Ray Good with saw
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.
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.
Workshop at Lake Cowichan camp
Caption on back reads: "Shop at L. Cowichan."
Caption on back reads: "Hill Crest saw mill at entrance to our camp just being built."
Alternative Service workers taking up railway ties
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
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.
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.
Caption on back reads: "On the station road."
Jake and George Peters with felled tree
See also Hist.Mss.22.1_1-7,8 and 11. Jake (Jacob) and George Peters were brothers from Kitchener, Ontario.