Life in the isolated camps was tedious. Fatigued after a twelve-hour day and with little to divert them, the stiffs settled into the humdrum environment of the bunkhouse. Sundays, if they were not work-days, were given over to washing and other mundane chores, like those being done in this photograph of a BC camp. Such domestic arts did little to relieve the monotony, however, and "camp ennui" often drove men off the job.
