The university in overalls; a plea for part-time study . camp menmake reply that the temporary natiure of the camps doesnot warrant the expense. But many camps are nottemporary. Whole sets of camp buildings do service often for years. They merit more money being spent on fittingthem up than has been spent in the past. Men shouldbe given a chance to live and work in decency if evenonly for one season. A season of seven or eight monthsis a comparatively long period in the working life of aman. There are at least 3,700 camps in operation inCanada. Of these probably 2,000 last for two years ormore
The university in overalls; a plea for part-time study . camp menmake reply that the temporary natiure of the camps doesnot warrant the expense. But many camps are nottemporary. Whole sets of camp buildings do service often for years. They merit more money being spent on fittingthem up than has been spent in the past. Men shouldbe given a chance to live and work in decency if evenonly for one season. A season of seven or eight monthsis a comparatively long period in the working life of aman. There are at least 3,700 camps in operation inCanada. Of these probably 2,000 last for two years ormore. It would be a godsend for approximately 150,000men who work in them, if they were housed decently, andas well cared for socially as they are fed. One camp owner replied to the writers appeal forbetter housing conditions for his men, to the effect thatcamp operations were in the nature of emergency worksuch as war, and that the men in the advanced postscould not expect good housing. The cases are by nomeans parallel. There is no such feverish haste to. Thb Bunkhouse and Camp Men 19 destroy bur beautiful forests as there was to demolish theGerman army. Besides, steam heat was usually pro-vided for military training camps, and these were muchless permanent than frontier camps. The average lifeof a bush camp is two-and-a-half years. In all miUtarytraining camps of even three months duration the build-ings were provided with running hot water for washingand shower baths. There is no reason why every lumber,mining, construction, or fishing camp in Canada shouldnot be supplied with running hot water. In middle andeastern Canada, where ice roads are used for hauling logs,a tank can be filled once a day by the water wagon oroftener, if necessary, with little extra expense or incon-venience. The law of the Province of Ontario requires that eachman be provided with sleeping accommodation of 600cubic feet. The accompanying sketch provides for 640cubic feet of space per man with dining ro
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