Squamish History Archives

Minnie Armstrong (nee Rae)

CA SQPL 05-011

Part of Bob Armstrong Photograph Collection

Minnie Armstrong (nee Rae)

CA SQPL 05-040

Part of Bob Armstrong Photograph Collection

Minnie Armstrong (nee Rae)

CA SQPL 05-012

Part of Bob Armstrong Photograph Collection

Minnie Armstrong, Hank Love, Kathleen Barbour

CA SQPL 05-020
August 1958

Part of Bob Armstrong Photograph Collection

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

Minnie Armstrong, Herb Armstrong, and daughter Mabel

CA SQPL 05-073

Part of Bob Armstrong Photograph Collection

Minnie Armstrong (nee Rae), Herb Armstrong, and daughter Mabel (Mrs Keith).

Minnie Armstrong, Retta Rae

CA SQPL 05-038

Part of Bob Armstrong Photograph Collection

Left to right: Minnie Armstrong (nee Rae), Retta Rae

Minnie Gertrude Armstrong

CA SQPL 05-061

Part of Bob Armstrong Photograph Collection

Minnie Rae on horseback

CA SQPL 05-069

Part of Bob Armstrong Photograph Collection

Minnie Rae (Mrs Al Armstrong) on horseback.

Miss E.M. Clement

CA SQPL 05-103
1906

Part of Bob Armstrong Photograph Collection

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

Mount Garibaldi as seen from Brackendale

CA SQPL 05-031

Part of Bob Armstrong Photograph Collection

Garibaldi Mountain was named for the great Italian nationalist Giuseppe Garibaldi. Apparently, it was named by an Italian serving as a sailor on a survey ship, the mountain being in view on Garibaldi's birthday (July 4).
The 2678 metre tall mountain is a dormant composite volcano. The last series of eruptions occurred 10,000 years ago. It was first climbed in 1907 by J. Trorey, A. Dalton, W. Dalton, C. Warren, A. King, and T. Pattison.

Mr and Mrs Hugh Henry Mills

CA SQPL 05-067

Part of Bob Armstrong Photograph Collection

Mrs Hughie Mills

CA SQPL 05-044

Part of Bob Armstrong Photograph Collection

Mrs Hughie Mills (formerly Mrs Allen Rae)

Mrs Kate Mills seated with grandchild

CA SQPL 05-087

Part of Bob Armstrong Photograph Collection

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

Mrs Kate Mills' sister Minerva

CA SQPL 05-135

Part of Bob Armstrong Photograph Collection

Mrs Kate Mills' sister Minerva (nee Robertson)

Norton-McKinnon Railway

CA SQPL 05-018

Part of Bob Armstrong Photograph Collection

Left to right: Mrs Allen Rae (nee Robertson and would be Mrs Hughie Mills), Minnie Rae, Olive Judd, and Ed Rae on Norton-McKinnon Railway.

In 1911, McKinnon and Norton of the Newport Timber Company were logging in Squamish in the area known as the base camp road, near Curly Lews' place. They had donkeys, a large shay engine, and a weird whistle. Mr McKinnon was a bartender and Mr Norton was a logger. Amedy Levesque and George Laviolette worked as brakemen on the locomotive. The camp was run by Mr Fuller.

On Norton-Mackinnon Railway

CA SQPL 05-095

Part of Bob Armstrong Photograph Collection

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.

Orchard in bloom