- CA SQPL 18-021
- 1950
Construction of BC Tel on Cleveland Avenue with the Firehall in the background. Finished in 1950.
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Construction of BC Tel on Cleveland Avenue with the Firehall in the background. Finished in 1950.
Construction of Mashiter School
Photo taken on June 25, 1915 of the construction of Mashiter School.
Construction of new M Creek Bridge
Construction of the Civic Center
A dance was held in 1978 at the newly opened Civic Center. It became known as the "Loggers Sports Stomp".
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Digging ditch (by train tracks)
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Evelyn Lamport on Merrill & Ring railroad trestle
Evelyn Lamport on Merrill & Ring railroad trestle (present site is just north of Ayr Drive in Garibaldi Highlands). Built along the face of rock bluffs. Photo taken ~1928 on the way to Alice Lake.
Merrill and Ring, an American company bought their claim in 1888 for 25 cents per acre. This went from Valleycliffe through the foothills to Brohm Lake. They did not set up in the valley until October 1926. The operation had come from Duncan Bay, before that they had been at Camp O near Alert Bay. Their first camp is where Valleycliffe is located now. They employed 200 people. The hiring was done by Loggers' Agencies in Vancouver. They would fall the trees with cross cut saws then haul the logs with a steam donkey to the train. They used a steam axe to split the wood as machines used only wood fuel at the time.
A lot of Merrill and Ring timber was burnt in a Norton McKinnon fire in 1927. The McKinnon's engine was given as payment. Aloysius McNalley and John Broomquist collected it. The same year, Arthur Edwards assisted in the building of the Merrill & Ring camp at Edith Lake.
In 1929, Merrill and Ring moved their operation across the Mamquam valley to Edith Lake east of Alice Lake. A settlement of 225 men was set up there. Railway track covered the mountainside from Cheekye River southward.
Merrill and Ring closed in 1930 due to the low price of logs during the Depression. Logs were selling from 5 to 6 dollars per thousand. At this time, the logs were hauled by train to the dump at the mouth of the Stawamus River. Merill and Ring started back up in 1932.
Merrill and Ring shut down 3 times in 1937: after New Years due to snow, due to fire season, and in the fall when a bridge over the Cheekye River was washed out. Merrill and Ring left Squamish in 1940.
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It says "Framework" on the back of the photo.
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It says "That's a" on the back of the photo.
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It says "The autograde" on the back of the photo.
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Grading the road from Squamish to Cheekye
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Grading the road from Squamish to Cheekye (30-35).
Left to right: Claude Hertnell, Lawson Rae.