- CA SQPL 05-094
Left to right, back row: Rae cousin, Minnie Rae, Mrs Mills.
Front row: ?, Retta Rae.
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Left to right, back row: Rae cousin, Minnie Rae, Mrs Mills.
Front row: ?, Retta Rae.
Back row: ?, ?, Minnie Rae, Kimmie Rae.
Front row: ?, Oswald Rae (?), ?
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Left to right: Oswald (Ozzie) Rae, Hugh Henry Mills, Minnie Gertrude Rae, Jimmy Rae, Mrs Hugh Mills (formerly Mrs Allen Rae), Lawrence Johnson Rae.
Photo by: Magee.
Left to right: Mrs Kate Mills, Ozzie Rae, Olive Judd, and Minnie Rae on the Mackinnon Railway.
In 1910, a man by the name of Norton McKinnon came to the area to log by railway, laying track from the Mamquam River to the Northern Pemberton Railway line. Unfortunately, a company fire in 1913 by the Mamquam River resulted in the loss of McKinnon’s business, and he left Squamish soon after.
Despite this setback to one of the first logging pioneers, harvesting continued through the Squamish area with the company of Merrill and Ring. With a steam engine salvaged from Norton McKinnon’s company, Merrill and Ring continued laying railway track from what is now the log dump south of the Stawamus Reserve to Valleycliffe and across the Mamquam River.
Left to right: Mrs Allen Rae (nee Robertson and would be Mrs Hughie Mills), Minnie Rae, Olive Judd, and Ed Rae on Norton-McKinnon Railway.
In 1911, McKinnon and Norton of the Newport Timber Company were logging in Squamish in the area known as the base camp road, near Curly Lews' place. They had donkeys, a large shay engine, and a weird whistle. Mr McKinnon was a bartender and Mr Norton was a logger. Amedy Levesque and George Laviolette worked as brakemen on the locomotive. The camp was run by Mr Fuller.
Minnie Rae (Mrs Al Armstrong) on horseback.
Part of Magee Photograph Collection
Minnie Gertrude Armstrong (nee Rae)
Part of Magee Photograph Collection
Left to right: Minnie Armstrong (nee Rae), Retta Rae
Minnie Armstrong, Herb Armstrong, and daughter Mabel
Minnie Armstrong (nee Rae), Herb Armstrong, and daughter Mabel (Mrs Keith).
Minnie Armstrong, Hank Love, Kathleen Barbour
Minnie Armstrong (nee Rae), Hank Love, and Mrs Kathleen Barbour (nee Boyle) in August 1958.
Minnie Armstrong (nee Rae), June 1964.
In front of Hugh Henry Mills' home
Present location of Norm Halvorson's family home.
Left to right: Herb Armstrong, Mabel Armstrong, Mrs Kate Mills, Gertrude Armstrong, Minerva Rae, Huey Mills, and brother David Mills.
Part of Magee Photograph Collection
Standing left to right: Jack Habricht, Ed Rae, ?, Minnie Armstrong, Cliff Thorne, Ozzie Rae, ?, Kate Mills, Hugh Mills in 1984 area of Norm Halvorson's home.
Ella Clemeny, Minerva Rae, Ella Fulk
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Left to right: Ella Clemeny (teacher), Minerva Rae, Ella Fulk
Research compiled by Eric Andersen: Schoolteacher Ella Clements, Minnie Rae, and Mrs Lola Fulk, 1907. Minnie Rae's 1907 diary refers to the Fulks, the upper valley camps, and Owen Fulk's business trips into town by steamship. Owen Fulk of Skagit County (WA) was hired by E.K. Wood Lumber Co. to supervise the Squamish River logging operations. During the five years or so Fulk was at Squamish, he was the valley's preeminent man of business.
Edgar Rae, Minnie Armstrong, Edith Rae
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Left to right: Edgar Rae, Minnie Armstrong, Edith Rae.
Armstrong's barn built by Minnie Armstrong
Drawing of the Armstrong's barn built by Minni Armstrong at 65 years of age.
A Centennial Commentary Upon the Early Days of Squamish, British Columbia
Part of Personal Accounts, Manuscripts, Booklets, and Yearbooks
A booklet on Squamish history, with photos, stories, maps and more. It was created as a part of British Columbia centennial celebrations that carried across the province in 1958. According to the booklet, 1888 was the beginning of real settlement that led to the formation of the town of Squamish.
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Squamish Centennial Committee