Left to right, front row: Frank Sabotka, Barney Blundell, Bill Machin, Bob Armstrong, Stanley Johnson, Mike Buckley, Logan Percy, Keith Kennedy, Harold Graham, Jim Armstrong.
Second row: Grace Moon, Constance Prendergast, Jean Mahood, Betty Quick, Ruth Downer, Vern Jamison, Geraldine Lewis, Josephine Martin, Irma Selons, Dorothy Edwards, Lily Lewis.
Third row: Francis Lamport, Anita Green, Louise Rae, Mavis Edwards, Catherine Rae, Irene Rae, Vera Lamport, Betty Hunt, Margaret McNamee, Anne Lasser, Jessie Downer.
Fourt row: Noel Mulhern, Fred Eadie, Bud Lourcoutte, Herbert Rae, Jack Gibson, Joe Seymour, John Sabotka.

Bride, suspected to be a friend / relative to Freda Clarke.

Left to right, back row: Ken Lutz, Victor Martinow, Frank Axen, Dan Munro, Glenn Valde.
Middle row: Mr E. Hayes, Norm Barr, Jack Stathers, Harold Halvorson, Lex Ross, Dave Caldwell, Terry Frost.
Front row: Phyllis Dorman, Ann Morrison, Eleanor Sullivan, Christine Nygard, Doreen Hurst, Anne Confortin, June Confortin, Betty Carson, Margaret Boscariol.

Margaret Thorne, 2nd from left, holding Clayton Thorne. Ella Thorne, 2nd from right.

George Harry (Xwach-la-nexw) on left and Ernie Harry (Peḵultn Siyam) at Kow-tain village.

Ernie Harry's grandfather, Charlie Douglas, lived on the K-YAU-tain reserve for quite some time in the early 1900's and worked as a logger for Al Barbour.

James and Janet Eadie with son Fred sitting on a train (Engine #51).

Left to right: Herb Armstrong, Scott MacDonald, Paul Sellons, Mrs Allan Barbour (nee Kathleen Mary Boyle), Allan Barbour, son Richard in 1918.

Left to right: Mr and Mrs Greer, Elvira Schoonover, Sigrid Anderson.

May Queen (far back): Anne Boscariol

Mrs Rose McNeil (formerly Mrs Tatlow - nee Wotruba) and Hank Tatlow with winter's catch of martin.

Left to right, front row: Del Tatlow, Lee Davenport, Elsie Nygard, Lynette Munro, Rosemarie Tremblay, Lois Woods, June Schoonover, Inez Nygard, Betty Carson, Vera Houston, Anne Marie Confortin.
Second row: Harriet Brightbill, Norma MacDonald, Ann Rae, Vivian Harding, Doreen Carlson, Norma Van Horlick, Christine Nygard, Isabel Buchanan, Doreen Hurst.
Third row: Maurice Patterson, Gordon Turnquist, Norm Halvorson, Bill Dent, David Caldwell, Bill Cramer, Bruce Cumming, Jack Carson, Jack Woods, Dan Munro.

Janet Eadie and son Fred at the FMC site.

FMC is an international corporation that produces basic chemicals and industrial and agricultural machinery. The original company produced equipment specifically for canning, dried fruit, and orchard spraying. Hence the name: Food Machinery Corporation.

In 1948, when the company began producing chemicals, the name was changed to the Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation. With further product diversification in 1961, the name simply became FMC Corporation.

The FMC chemicals division in Squamish produces mainly chlorine, caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) and hydrochloric acid. The chemicals result from the breakdown of sodium chloride by the mercury cell process. The salt that is used by Canadian Oxy's Squamish plant comes from the San Francisco Bay region, where it is recovered by natural evaporation in huge ponds of salt water exposed to sunlight. It is barged from the bay area to Squamish 14,000 or more tonnes at a time.

The chemicals are mainly distributed to the BC pulp and paper industry. Hydrochloric acid is transported by truck while chlorine and caustic soda are stored in tanks and transported by rail or barge.

CanadianOxy has installed equipment that salvages the hydrogen, a byproduct, for burning in the boiler. This provides heat used in the operation of the system.

FMC Squamish plant covers 60 acres of land leased from BCR.

Timeline
1957, June - Pennsalt Chemicals Corporation of Philadelphia announced plans of building a chemical plant in Squamish. Fred Shanneman, president.
1960 - Pennsalt dropped plans. Partly due to high cost of power. Western Minerals Ltd. of Calgary had also dropped plans to build a chemical plant.
1964, July 9 - FMC Corporation announced that a $10 million chemical plant would be built in Squamish.
1965 - Chlor-alkali plant built on the Squamish River estuary by FMC Canada.
1965, October - The British S.S. Argyll bought first cargo of 13,000 tons of Mexican salt to the nearly completed FMC Squamish plant. Was the largest ship ever to enter Howe Sound being 39,665 gross tons and 764 feet long.
1965, December - FMC Squamish began operations as the first outdoor chlorine cell installation in the Western Hemisphere. Plant manager was Charles E. Barnabe and controller was R.C. Bryant. Approximately 60 people were employed.
1970 - Original wastewater treatment plant built.
1974, November 8 - FMC Squamish earned award from Pacific Northwest Pollution Control Association. Presented to resident manager, Ralph Ross.
1983 - Approximately 70 people employed. Plant managaer Jack Selby. Production was at 175 tonnes of chlorine, 200 tonnes of caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) and 30 tonnes of muriatic acid (hydrochloric acid), daily.
1986, December 23 - FMC was taken over by Canadian Occidental Petroleum Limited.
1988, July - 75 people employed at the Chlor-Alkali plant. Plant manager, Brian Thorton. President, Brian Thorpe. Production has risen to a peak of 185 tonnes of schlorine, 217 tonnes of caustic soda and 32 tonnes of muriatic acid (hydrochloric acid), daily. The plant uses 340 tonnes of salt each day. There was not much change after the takeover (eg. no layoffs, strikes, or modernization programs). Products are shipped to Woodfibre and Powell River. Plans to build a hydrogen peroxide plant are on hold. Land has been set aside for the purpose though.
1988, August - Thomas A. Sugalski, senior vice president replaced Brian Thorpe as president.
1989 - Nexen buys plant from FMC Canada and assumes environmental liability.
1991 - Plant shuts down; Ministry of Environment becomes involved and recommends the company pursue independent remediation.
1999 - Remediation order issued by MOE.
2003 - Site remediation complete.
2004 - Provincial Crown transfers the site to the District of Squamish. Special Environmental Award presented to Nexen by the Minister of Environment.

Left to right, first row: Johnny Lewis, Bob McCormick, Willie Boscario, George Smith, Harold Stathers, Peter Clark, Bryce Morrison, Terry Knox, Dick Dawson.
Second row: Doreen Confortin, Ruth Cooper, Delores Lewis, ?, Ruth Tremblay, Bernita Martinow, Eleanor Oaks, Margaret Knox, Rita Houston.
Third row: ?, Richard Olsen, Mae Franson, Joyce Carson, Miss Nora Tracey (teacher), Barbara Machin, Shirley Harding, Adolf Seymour, Harold Halvorson.

Sid Bishop (father to Robert) in front of his house. Located in the present day site of Field's.

B.P.O.E. Lodge (Hudson House) in background.

Austin Harry (Peḵultn Siyam), of Squamish Nation, lived in Sta-a-mis in the early 1900's.

38033 Second Avenue
Hudson House was originally built in the 1930's as a local community hall (PGE Hall). Built by railway and community volunteers, the PGE Hall was once the site of basketball games, dances, and other gala community events. It later became the Hudson House, and then an empty lot.

Original Use: Community Hall.
1993 use: Rooming House (Hudson House).
1993 condition: Retained original form without significant alteration. Location among newer buildings left the Hall looking somewhat run down.

The Judd house which still stands on Judd Road in Brackendale.

Although not the oldest structure in Squamish, the Judd Home (1199 Judd Road) is regarded by many to be one of the District's primary heritage resources, providing an important anchor in reconstructing the early history and development of Brackendale and Squamish. It is in association with the Judd Home that many other local heritage sites are best interpreted. Henry Judd (or Harry, as he was also known) and his wife Anne were among that small group of settlers which included the Robertsons, the Raes, William Mashiter, E.B. Madill, George Magee, Tom Reid, and a few others who are now regarded as the Pioneers of the Squamish Valley.

Having made purchase by public lottery of a major piece of property covering much of what is Brackendale today, Henry Judd arrived in the Valley in 1889 to begin farming his land. Building his original home at the present site of the Brennan Home, Judd sold that house to his parents after marrying Barbara Anne Edwards, who had come to work at the Squamish Valley Hop Ranch. A new home was built by the young couple on the site of the present Judd House.

The present form of Brackendale did not begin to take shape until the subdivision of the Judd property in 1910 into 20 large lots along the Government Road, including the original lot purchased for the Brackendale Store. The original Judd Home itself burnt to the ground in 1916 and was rebuilt as the structure which stands there today as the current home of Mrs Farquharson, one of Henry and Anne Judd's youngest daughters.

Although not a "grand" structure, the Judd Home is nonetheless an attractive example of the functional charm of Western farm homes of the early part of the century. Perhaps more importantly, the Judd home and the lovely surrounding property on which it stands are a reminder of the farming history of Brackendale, and the industriousness of the earliest settlers in Squamish.

Original use: Private residential / farmhouse.
Current use: Private residential.
Current condition: Although some renovation has occurred, the Judd Home maintains most of its original form. Some restoration would be required to bring it back to its original condition. The large property on which it stands is beautifully landscaped and private, allowing a setting which adds to the character of the house.

Now Judd Road area.

Posing in front of a car, left to right: Gerty Wilson (nee Armstrong), Stanley Goad, Mary Goad (nee Munro).

Paula the clown (Paul MacKenzie) at Loggers Sports.

In 1967, Paul Mackenzie dressed as a clown and performed as the "World Champion Logger". Later he would be known as "Paula the Clown", the only Loggers Sports clown in Canada.

Left to right, front row: Marsh Johnson, Jack Mahood, Albert Lassman, Henry Downer, Kenneth Jamison, Jimmy Leech, Gordon Moir.
Second row: Violet Midnight, Agnes Hutton, Phyllis Leech, Hazel McRae, Eileen Mahood, Lillian Lasser.
Third row: Dorothy Blundell, Dorothy Thorne, Geraldine Lewis, Louise Rae, Aileen Lamport, Margy Caslte, Ruth Downer, Nellie Green, Joyce Gratton.
Fourt row: Jim Armstrong, Jim Hurren, Jack Confortin, John Jurren, John Sobotka, Fred Eadie, Herb Johnson, Erwin Thorne, Ian Hamilton.

Evelyn Lamport on Merrill & Ring railroad trestle (present site is just north of Ayr Drive in Garibaldi Highlands). Built along the face of rock bluffs. Photo taken ~1928 on the way to Alice Lake.

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.

Mr and Mrs Wotruba around 1915. Their daughter Rose would become Mrs J.B. Tatlow and over 1915, Mrs McNeil.
Photo by: Colonial Studio, 2nd and Columbia Street (Seattle)