- CA SQPL 33-005
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.
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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.
Left to right: Chief Jimmy, unknown, August Jack.
Part of Jessie Rae Photograph Collection
Retta Rae in front of boarding house owned by Mrs Allen Rae (would be Mrs Hughie Mills)
Richard Barbour at Brackendale farm
Richard Barbour at Brackendale farm, born 1916. Dressed in new clothes for a trip to Vancouver.
Crowd at Mrs Allen Rae's Boarding House
Johnny Baker, Molly Harry, Austin Harry
Left to right: Johnny Baker, Molly Harry (Yo-so-solt), Austin Harry (XwaXwalkn).
Austin Harry, of Squamish Nation, lived in Sta-a-mis in the early 1900's.
Eleanor Bishop and son, Robert Jr, along Cleveland Avenue. Note the old wooden sidewalk.
Photo by: Robert Bishop.
Front to back: Olive Judd, Carey Bateman, Ruth Judd, Edith Judd canoeing in Judd Slough.
Dan Munro in uniform (far right). Early 50's.
Left to right, front row: Elvira (nee Bump), Robert, Charles, Mildred.
Back row: Mary.
Women in buggy at Squamish Hop Company Ranch
Group of unknown women in buggy at the Squamish Hop Company Ranch.
Hop farming was Squamish's first major industry. The major producer was Squamish Valley Hop Raising Co. (Bell-Irving Ranch). Hops are perennials and grown about 6 feet apart. They are picked during September and August. Hops are dried and bleached with sulphur in a kiln. In Squamish, Chinese labour was brought in to tend the hops. Local First Nations picked them. They would camp in the area now between Petro Canada gas station and the Cottonwood condominiums. The hops in Squamish were top grade. They were shipped to Vancouver in bales wrapped in Burlap, then shipped to Britain where they were used to make beer.
Timeline
1890 - Hops first grown by E.B. Madill.
1891, February - Group from Puyallup Valley (near Tacoma) examined Squamish as potential hop growing area. The Squamish Valley Hop Raising Company was formed by Vancouver businessmen. Dr Bell-Irving (great uncle of previous Lieutenant Governor) was owner of the company. President was William Shannon and Secretary was T.T. Black; and Directors: Dr Bell-Irving, W.E. Green, George Magee, E.L. Phillips.
1892 - The Squamish Valley Hop Raising Company leased land from E.B. Madill. 1.5 acres of hop vine nursery stock was planted. In addition, 260 acres were purchased, 20 acres of which were cleared. Ranch was in the present location of Eagle Run extending from Heidenriech's house to Judd Road to Horse Creek. Frank H. Potter, a hop rancher from Puyallup, became a manager. No hops grown but frame house and out-buildings built for Potter.
1893, Fall - 5 acres hops grown on Madill's leased property. No hops grown on Squamish Valley Hop Company's own land. 40 acres cleared but planted potatoes, oats, and hat. W. Shannon still president of the company. Chas. McLaughlin, secretary.
1894 - Fred Clayton Thorne replaced Frank Potter as manager of Squamish Valley Hop Company. Hop industry began to thrive. Allen Rae, E.B. Madill, George Magee, and Tom Reid grew hops.
1897 - D.H. Tweedie was manager of Madill's hop ranch.
1898 - Charles Rose was manager of Squamish Valley Hop Company (Bell-Irving ranch). Wife, Alice, was ranch cook.
1906, March - 28 acres of hops planted at Bell-Irving ranch.
1914 - With beginning if war, hop prices fell. Hop ranches were shut down. The Squamish Valley Hop Company was owned by Dr Bell Irving and Mr Murry (manager of Bank of Commerce in Vancouver) owned ranch at that time. Fred Thorne took over Squamish Valley Hope Company ranch and started raising short horn cattle.
1917 - Hop industry had died in Squamish.
~1931 - George Carson was running his brother Robert (Bob) Carson's hop ranch when it burned down.
1944 - Roderick Mackenzie owned old Squamish Hop Co. ranch. Referred to as the mackenzie Ranch or the Pig or Hog Ranch. Since he produced hops for export to help the war effort, it received those names.
Mrs Alice Rose and Barbara Edwards
Left to right: Mrs Alice Rose, Barbara Edwards (would be Mrs Harry Judd).
Jane and Ole Hansen with daughter
Part of Jessie Rae Photograph Collection
Jane (nee Judd) and Ole Hansen with daughter Annette
May Queen: Clara Judd.
Attendants: Evelyn Chadwick, Lottie Cameron.
Walter Magee on Cheakamus Bridge
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Squamish Fire Department, 1958
Left to right: Richard Munro, Frank Wilson, Johnny Schmidt, Jack Clark, Bill Smith, Otar Brandvold, ?, Harold Halvorson, Jim Mackenzie, Thor Halvorson.
Building the Cheakamus Bridge (~1925).
Left to right: Herb Armstrong, Mart McIntyre, Allan Newton Barbour, Paul Sellons.
Grade 9 & 19, Squamish Public School 1933 - 1934
Part of Anne Moore Photograph Collection
Left to right, first row: David Magee, Stanley Johnson, Noel Mulhern, Mike Buckley, Tony Martin, Billy Machin, Barney Blundell.
2nd row: Anne Lasser, Josephine Martin, Betty Hunt, Kate James, Margareta Armstrong, Pauline Powell, Vivian Ingraham, Bonnie Thorne.
3rd row: Mr Aby Cameron, Keith Green, Cleveland Dawson, Herbert Rae, Bill McAllister, Cameron Magee, Charlie Barnfield, Leslie Magee.
4th row: Lloyd Ingraham, Bob Armstrong, Borden Dawson, Carl Johnson, Bob Lasser, George Percy, Jack Quick, Norman McDonald.
417477 Government Road
This lovely log house was built by Charles Schoonover in 1932. Having worked as a hunter, trapper, and logger further up in the valley for nearly 30 years, Schoonover settled his family here in a house that reflected the beauty of the forests he loved.
Original use: Private residence.
Current use: Private residence.
Current condition: Very well maintained.
Clifford Thorne and Lottie Fulk on horseback
Part of Magee Photograph Collection
Research compiled by Eric Andersen: Logging manager's daughter Lottie Fulk on hourseback riding with Cliffe Thorne, son of Squamish Valley Hop Raising Co. manager Fred Thorne, ca 1907. Lottie Fulk's father was Owen Fulk of Skagit County (WA) who was hired by the manager of E.K. Wood Lumber Co. to supervise Squamish River logging operations. During the five years Fulk was in Squamish, he was the valley's preeminent man of business.
Lower Squamish School 1914 class picture
Back from left to right: __ McIntyre, Isabel Galbraith, Dorothy Sudke, Josephine Reeves. Front from left to right: Grace Climie, ?, Annie MacKenzie.
Left to right: Marjorie Leffler, Rose Tatlow, Lillian Newbert, Anne Moore, and Freda Clarke.