Picture of the snowplow on Engine No. 59
- CA SQPL 06-058
- ~1930
Picture taken at 19 mile bridge, 4 miles above Swift Creek. Circa 1930.
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Picture of the snowplow on Engine No. 59
Picture taken at 19 mile bridge, 4 miles above Swift Creek. Circa 1930.
Premier Bennett presenting the No. 2 locomotive
November 2, 1967, Premier Bennett (W.A.C.) presents the No. 2 locomotive to the people of Squamish. Mayor Brennan to the left, Fred Downer to the right.
Group of people in front of load of logs
Fred Downer - 2nd row, 2nd from right. Several Squamish Indians included in group.
Trestle bridge under construction
Suspected to be near Lillooet, prior to 1915.
Photo by: Duff.
Part of G.J. Duff Photograph Collection
Left to right: Jack Manning (card), Minor Bazley, Alex McLennan, H Brightbill in front of locomotive.
Photo by: G.J. Duff.
PGE construction, Lillooet 1927
May Day 1928 float on PGE tracks
Attendant: Evelyn Chadwick.
Teacher: Freda Lasser.
Others unknown.
Squamish Flood with PGE shops in background
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Mashiter's store on the left in present site of Shell bulk plant.
PGE Duplexes at Castles Crossing
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
View looking south near the present BCR Station.
Train derailment at Seton Lake
Building railway through Cheakamus canyon
Merrill & Ring Boom and Woodyard, 1927
Dave Thompson (left) and Charlie Moore. Close up of load of logs.
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
Merrill & Ring "2 Spot" (wood burning) pushing drag out on dump. Charlie Calchan Engineer Boom Camp & Wood Yard. Comments by Ed Alridge: Note wood all gone off tender. Will wood up at wood yard before leaving. Steel gang unload steel of scow - at gridion in foreground.
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
Merrill & Ring Logging Co. Camp
Early 1927 in Valleycliffe. Steam locomotives standing approximately where "townhouses" now stand.
Far left: 14 ton Plymouth gas locomotive foreground: "North-western" speeder - Model T Ford engine.
Right: 50 ton shay Loco #1 1 beam frame.
Arch bar trucks. Behind her with crummies, 50 ton shay #2 (new) girder frame, cast frame trucks. Wagon to boiler. Shays converted to oil burners later in 1927.
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
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.
Aldridge, Ed
Bunk houses loaded on skeleton cars ready to go to Edith Lake Camp site. Looking south.
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
Looking south over open observation cars of PGE Sunday train to Alta Lake
Ship is probably "Lady Cynthia", sister ship to "Lady Cecilia" (union steamships).
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
PGE shops - retirement of Harold Bailey, 1951
Left to right, top row: Mr Vogle, Les Moule, Bill Richmond, Owen Reeve, ?, George Appleyard, Fred Barnfield, Bill McAllister, Les Walton, Tommy Gilgan, Russ Lamport, Brian Buckley, ?, Jimmy Harley (in loco).
Third row: Bill Curran, Len Gorsuch.
Second row: Eric Axen, Art Anglin, Ed Aldridge, Jack Frost, Tommy Fowler, Harold Bailey, Don Robinson, Frank King, Rosie Zack, Lil Hutchinson, Christy Wheatley, Mrs Tremblay, Margaret Thorne, Bill Hales, Bob Slack, Harry Brightbill, Bob Bruce, ?, ?, ?, ?, Joe Gault, Joe Mulhern, Bill Riley, Barry Hunt, Cy Marchant, Bill Bazley.
Front row: Jim Taylor, Jim Hurren, Ivo Confortin, Jim Robinson, Tommy Fraser, Bill Gedge.
Dennis or Buzz Downer, ?, ,?, Arnold Kermein.
This is under the heading "Alta Lake."
Part of Squamish Times Archive