F205-74.004 - "Harold O'Connor, George Wallis, and Tom Keogh (cook) at a Black Tusk meadows camp, probably 1930"

Harold O'Connor, George Wallis, and Tom Keogh (cook) at the BC Mountaineering Club's Black Tusk meadows camp, said to be "probably 1930."

For those focused on exploration, a camp cook must have been indispensable. Was the cook one of the untold heroes of these camps? It could not have been easy to cook for a large group of hungry people at roughly 1700 metres (~5500 feet), with basic supplies and probably a lot of insects swarming about. Hope he was paid well.

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Fonds 205

• Black Tusk

George Wallis collection