May Day 1928 float on PGE tracks
- CA SQPL 34-011
- 1928
Attendant: Evelyn Chadwick.
Teacher: Freda Lasser.
Others unknown.
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May Day 1928 float on PGE tracks
Attendant: Evelyn Chadwick.
Teacher: Freda Lasser.
Others unknown.
Merrill & Ring "4 Spot" with low built steel laying flatcar
Merrill & Ring 4 Spot with low built steel laying flatcar, ~1928 in Stawamus Valley. Climbing 6% grade on branch that ran south to Bughouse Heights.
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
Merrill & Ring Bridge over the Mamquam River, 1928
Approximately 90 feet from the top of the rail to the water in the river. Gas locomotive #4 on the bridge (built by Bill and Sam Culliton). 4 main span strings 90' x 3' diameter. Information from Ed Aldridge.
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
50 ton Shay descending 6% grade on Bughouse Heights banks, 1928.
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
Bunk houses loaded on skeleton cars ready to go to Edith Lake Camp site. Looking south.
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
Merrill & Ring "4 Spot" gas locomotive at M&R Camp
1929 Merrill & Ring "4 Spot" gas locomotive at M&R Camp, Edith (Baloney) Lake. 13x15 Williamette Trackside Unit (Yarder @ Loader) behind 4 spot. Williamette is pronounced with accent on the Williamette. These (M&R had 2) units 2 cyl. 13x15. Ready for service with all lines etc @ water. Weighed about 100 tons. Ed Aldridge used to move them with the "4 Spot". Comment by Ed Aldridge.
Photo by: Ed Aldridge
Edith Lake was named after Edith Judd (m. Edith Webster), the first white woman to travel to the lake.
Aldridge, Ed
Merrill & Ring -0-4-0 - 14 ton Plymouth Gas Loco
Merrill & Ring -0-4-0 - 14 ton Plymouth Gas Locomotive with steel laying float car ahead and "crummy" behind at Edith Lake Camp, 1929 - 1930. "Ausie" Pete Craddock in cab.
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
Merrill & Ring "4 Spot" on M&R Dock
Merrill & Ring "4 Spot" on M&R Dock at Woodyard and Beach Camp around 1929.
Left to right: Charlie Pierce (Camp Foreman), Big Dave Thompson (head barely visible), Ed Aldridge, Jow Ozanich.
Picture of the snowplow on Engine No. 59
Picture taken at 19 mile bridge, 4 miles above Swift Creek. Circa 1930.
Tall tree along tracks used by Merrill & Ring Logging
Photo by: Bun Yarwood, circa 1930.
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.
Tall tree along tracks used by Merrill & Ring Logging
Photo by: Bun Yarwood, circa 1930.
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.
Fighting deep snow in Cunningham Cut Mile 19.5
Fighting deep snow in Cunningham Cut Mile 19.5 (now 58 Miles), 1935.
Photo by: H. Brightbill
Brightbill, Harry
Squamish Flood with PGE shops in background
"Rainbow Lodge" at Alta Lake, 1940
Picture taken from trackside of PGE Excursion Train.
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
PGE at Prince George bulletin board
Part of Squamish Times Archive
PGE truck delivering supplies to a Union Steamship docked at Government Wharf, 1958.
Part of Squamish Times Archive
Part of Squamish Times Archive
Part of Squamish Times Archive
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Digging ditch (by train tracks)
Part of Squamish Times Archive
Part of Squamish Times Archive