Swan Valley Historical Museum


“When we went out with the dinner wagon, two of us [cookies] always went. I think the most important thing that we were sent out for, with the dinner wagon; they called it the “gut wagon”, was just to watch the men with the pie. So they didn’t take 2 or 3 pieces.”

Jim Taylor (cookie in Burrows lumber camp) interview with Ed Dobbyn, February 3 1975

Captioned on back;  ”Time out for lunch, bush camp, northern Manitoba 1926

Captioned on back; ”Time out for lunch, bush camp, northern Manitoba 1926