- CA SQPL 12-002
Austin Harry (XwaXwalkn), of Squamish Nation, lived in Sta-a-mis in the early 1900's.
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Austin Harry (XwaXwalkn), of Squamish Nation, lived in Sta-a-mis in the early 1900's.
Mr and Mrs John Sobotka with daughter
Division 1 in front of Lower Squamish School, 1914-1915
James Eadie and Marsh Hurren Sr standing on Loco #51
Left to right: James Eadie and Marsh Hurren Sr standing on Loco #51
May Day Parade on Cleveland Avenue
Left to right: Robert Armstrong, Gina Boscariol, Leigha Armstrong. Yarwood Drugs in the background, ~1958.
A young girl, Jean Herres, feeds a baby deer.
1958 building that was in the 1984 site of Robinson's.
Left to right: Frank Buckley, Angus McRae, Frank Scott.
Robert Bishop at old Government Wharf, 1949
Part of Jessie Rae Photograph Collection
Edgar Rae, Minnie Armstrong, Edith Rae
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Left to right: Edgar Rae, Minnie Armstrong, Edith Rae.
Madeline Dan, Violet Dan, Harriet Harry
Left to right: Madeline Dan, Violet Dan, Harriet Harry (Tsawaysia).
James Eadie outside train engine
Characters in Longfellows play
Characters in Longfellows play, the Chronicles of Miles Standish.
Left to right: Grace Climie (as John Alden), Dorothy Ludke (as Priscilla), Jack McKenzie (as Miles Standish).
Students and teacher Bruce Fletcher
All the students of Lower Squamish School saw teacher Bruce Fletcher (suspected) away when he joined the army.
First Aid House at PGE shops, Squamish
Left to right: ?, Charlie Lamport, ?, ?, Bill Bazely, Paul Powell, Marsh Hurren, ?, Ivo Confortin, Eric Anderson, Sonny Rennie.
Robert Shaw came to Squamish in 1924 to work as a telegraphist.
Previously the Galbraith's store. Built in 1912.
Motorcade arrives Squamish 2/2
Cartoon by Ken Barbour, 2 of 2.
Caption accompanying two cartoons:
... many years ago when the white men first came to the Squamish Valley they stole all the land from the Indians... the Chief put a curse on the white men and said that one day after the greedy white men had logged all the timber and fished all the streams a great new white leader would rise and build a great new trail and return the land to its rightful owners......
Steam donkey at Yapp's Logging Camp
Squamish Timber Co. crew and 'swing yarder'. 'Swing yarder' brought to Squamish by Allan Newton Barbour in 1910.
In 1907, Allan Newton Barbour and his brother Charles came to Squamish and logged using 6 yoke of oxen and took out six 24' logs a "turn" (load). The area logged was near the PGE Shops (by Castle's Crossing), across the river rom the shops, on the Burnt Ground near the cemetery, at Paradise Valley, and about five miles north of Cheekye. 2 to 20 men were employed. It was customary to log close to the river so the logs just had to be dragged into the river and floated to the Howe Sound where they were picked up by the Powell River company tugs and taken up to their mills. Log jams were broken up by men in canoes. Mr McComb was the first to tow logs down the river in a boat. The Barbours would later sell out to Mr Yapp. Mr Yapp's Squamish Timber Company was incorporated on March 21, 1907. In 1910, the Yapp Company cleared the Cheekye area. A steam donkey would haul the logs 400 feet and then an 8 horse team hauled them 1/2 mile on a skid road. Another donkey, called a roader, took the logs to the river. Here the logs followed a log trough. Instead of chokers, logging dogs were used. When the Howe Sound Northern Railway came into Cheakamus, the Yapp company used the train to transport logs to the booming grounds at Squamish. In 1911, a company owned by Mr Lamb took over the Yapp stand of timber.
In 1912, Arthur McIntyre, Fidolle Laviolette, Amedy Levesque, and George Laviolette ("The French Boys") won a steam donkey from Al Barbour in a poker game. Barbour had refused to sell it to them earlier. Mr Barbour went back to logging with horses hauling the timber out on skid roads until he could afford another donkey. The boys formed a partnership called the Laviolette, McIntyre, and Levesque Logging Co.
Marriage of Frank Buckley to Doris Galbraith, 1914
Left to right: Mr and Mrs Frank Buckley, David Galbraith, Isobel Galbraith, Jean Galbraith, Laurie Galbraith (Mrs David Galbraith.
Part of Mary Goad Photograph Collection
Mary Goad (nee Munro) with Juliette Munro (later DesJardins) and "Maude" on Winnipeg Street in the mid 1930s. Father Alec Munro's blacksmith shop is at left, and the horse corral is behind.