- CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1-2
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- 1942
Caption on back reads: "Foreman Ab[e] Cathcart, Sub-foreman (a full-blooded Indian)."
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Caption on back reads: "Foreman Ab[e] Cathcart, Sub-foreman (a full-blooded Indian)."
Len Bechtel photograph collection
Consists of photographs taken or collected by Bechtel during his time in Alternative Service.
Bechtel, Len
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.
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.
Workshop at Lake Cowichan camp
Caption on back reads: "Shop at L. Cowichan."
Crew tearing up railroad near Lake Cowichan
Group of Alternative Service workers standing in front of a speeder railroad vehicle.
Woodshed at Lake Cowichan camp
Caption on back reads: "At L. Cowichan. Woodhouse to keep wood dry."
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 .
Len Bechtel with railroad superintendent car
Caption on back reads: "Railroad superintendent car taken in front of camp the time they put a new deck on bridge."