- CA SQPL 01-013
- 1928
Bill Turcotte in 1928 in tree climbing gear.
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Bill Turcotte in 1928 in tree climbing gear.
Robert Stewart (Bert) Rae (left) and Scott MacDonald (right) at bunk houses at Cheekye (now in the location of Fergies) in 1926.
Peter Herres holding granddaughter
Peter Herres holding granddaughter Barbie in 1935.
Left to right: Bill Huston and Bill Touton (first mailmain) in 1926 sawing logs.
Photo from Van Horlick Collection. Group of young men in suits. Identities and location unknown. Possibly Herres friends / relatives?
Walter Magee on Cheakamus Bridge
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Bruce Fletcher, first teacher at Mashiter School.
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Al Armstrong, Johnny Fleurs, Scott MacDonald
Left to right: Al Armstrong, Johnny Fleurs, and Scott MacDonald posing outdoors wearing hats.
Steam donkey along Cheekye at Yapp's Logging Camp
Squamish Timber Company's yarding donkey.
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.
Part of Squamish Times Archive
Part of Squamish Times Archive
It says "Enjoying the" on the back of the photo.
Part of Squamish Times Archive
It says something on the back, which may be "Mr & Mrs [unclear] Jones."
Squamish Times
Contact sheet showing presentation and dinner
Part of Squamish Times Archive
Rosemary Lennon, Don Ross and man with First Nations art
Part of Squamish Times Archive
Part of Squamish Times Archive
Group of people sitting on logs
Part of Squamish Times Archive
People in some sort of ceremony
Part of Squamish Times Archive
It says "Taking the" on the back of the photo.
Squamish Times
People looking at documents on table
Part of Squamish Times Archive
Part of Squamish Times Archive
It says something that looks like "The new science" on the back of the photo, but the last word may be something else.