Jimmie Rae, Grace Braiathwaite (?), Jim & Les Armstrong (sons of Herbert and Minnie Armstrong).

Unidentified cattle field - suspected relatives / friends of Rae pioneer family.

Note: Magnification techniques used on horses.

Mrs Kate Mills (formerly Mrs Allan Rae) seated with grandchild.

Left to right, back: ?, Gertrude Armstrong, Margareta Armstrong, Mabel Armstrong.
Front: Jim Armstrong, Bob Armstrong, ?.

Left to right: Mrs Kate Mills, Ozzie Rae, Olive Judd, and Minnie Rae on the Mackinnon Railway.

In 1910, a man by the name of Norton McKinnon came to the area to log by railway, laying track from the Mamquam River to the Northern Pemberton Railway line. Unfortunately, a company fire in 1913 by the Mamquam River resulted in the loss of McKinnon’s business, and he left Squamish soon after.

Despite this setback to one of the first logging pioneers, harvesting continued through the Squamish area with the company of Merrill and Ring. With a steam engine salvaged from Norton McKinnon’s company, Merrill and Ring continued laying railway track from what is now the log dump south of the Stawamus Reserve to Valleycliffe and across the Mamquam River.

School teacher at Brackendale School (1906). Stayed with Mrs Allen Rae.

Unidentified women - suspected to be relatives from Vancouver of pioneer Rae family.

Wilfred (Whiff) Rae behind Huey Mills home or hop farm.

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.

Auntie Minnie (left) was Mrs Kate Mills' sister, Minerva Robertson. Married name unknown (parents came to Squamish in 1888).

Unidentified men - suspected to be relatives / friends of the Rae pioneer family.

Present location of Norm Halvorson's family home.

Left to right: Herb Armstrong, Mabel Armstrong, Mrs Kate Mills, Gertrude Armstrong, Minerva Rae, Huey Mills, and brother David Mills.

Left to right, rear: Minni Rae, Huey Mills, Robert Stewart Rae.
Front: ?, ?, Mrs Kate Mills, Thomas Edgar Rae, ?, Herbert Lawson Rae.

Far left: Fred Young, teacher at Brackendale School.
Far right: Wilfred Rae.
3rd from right: Huey Mills.
4th from right: Mrs Kate Mills
5th from right: _____ Rae.

Unidentified people suspected to be relatives / friends of Rae pioneer family.

Mrs Kate Mills' sister Minerva (nee Robertson)

Suspected to be relatives / friends of the Rae pioneer family.

Back row: ?, ?, Minnie Rae, Kimmie Rae.
Front row: ?, Oswald Rae (?), ?

Minnie Armstrong (nee Rae), Hank Love, and Mrs Kathleen Barbour (nee Boyle) in August 1958.