- CA SQPL 11-012
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Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Names suspected to be incorrect.
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Names suspected to be incorrect.
Mr and Mrs J. Edwards - Christmas 1909
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Merrill & Ring logging operation
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
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.
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Left to right: Mr Young, Miss Jean Reid, Mrs Bryans, Blanche Duclos, Miss Rebina Prendergast, and Les Keith in front of Mashiter School.
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Original building of the Mashiter School. Man riding a bicycle in the foreground.
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Line of cars waiting due to road grading
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Highway 99 (?)
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Lamb's logging - Lefurgy Ltd (Garibaldi & Logging Camp, Brackendale).
Research compiled by Eric Andersen, 2011: Lamb Bros. Logging camp ca 1912, on present site of Garibaldi Cemetery. The Company ran a rail car loading operation similar to that of Squamish Timber Co. two miles to the north. The Cheekye log flume crossed this camp site, later occupied by a Japanese logging company.
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Built in 1910, the King George Hotel is now the Squamish Hotel.
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Would become Squamish Hotel and then later the Ocean Port Hotel (37991 Second Avenue).
Although the original building has been altered nearly beyond recognition, the basic structure of the Squamish Hotel was constructed in 1910 as the King George Hotel by W.A. Holland. Like the Brackendale Store, the Squamish Hotel is a building which may hold heritage value to the community not for its present appearance, but for its prominence as a landmark and reference point in the local landscape for over 75 years.
Original use: Hotel, pub.
Current use: Hotel, pub, restaurant, Cold Beer and Wine Store.
Current condition: Nearly unrecognizable from the original form.
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Left to right: Mr and Mrs J. Johnson with daughter, Joe Confortin's brother and family.
House damaged by flood washout, 1940
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Photo by: Jean Reid.
Harold Thorne in canoe during the 1940 flood
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Photo by: Jean Reid
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.
Flooded area in downtown Squamish
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1940 flood
Flooded area in Brackendale, 1940
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Photo by: Jean Reid.
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Photo by: Jean Reid.
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Newport Hotel on the left (corner of Cleveland and Victoria Avenue); current location of the Chieftain Hotel.
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During the flood of October 1940.
Photo by: Jean Reid.
Ella Clemeny, Minerva Rae, Ella Fulk
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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.
Edward Brennan during the 1940 flood
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Edward Brennan (Pat Brennan's father) during the 1940 flood.
Photo by: Jean Reid.
Downtown Squamish with a view of Mount Garibaldi
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Photo by: Jean Reid.
Downtown Squamish during winter
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