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Merrill & Ring Logging Camp

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.

Merrill & Ring Logging Camp

Merrill & Ring Logging Camp (now Valleycliffe) in 1927. Looking north up Stamish Valley.
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.

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.

Aldridge, Ed

1300-year-old Douglas fir on Waterloo Mountain

1300-year-old Douglas Fir on Waterloo Mountain, Shawnigan Logging Division. The photo is by Irving Strickland of the Victoria Times. There is also a MacMillan & Bloedel stamp on the back of the photo.

Victoria Daily Times

Squamish Advance: Thursday, July 9, 1953

HIKER IS LOST IN GARIBALDI

WORK TO START AT LOCAL MINE

LOGGER INJURED

CHEEKYE CALLING

TOWING'S BOOMING GROUNDS DEEPENED

IMPROVEMENTS TO FIRE DEPARTMENT

THREE PARTIES PICK CANDIDATES

FINAL B.C. ELECTION RESULTS KNOWN

LEGION GROUNDS TO BE PRETTIED UP

THE CRADLE

LOCAL AND PERSONAL

PROSSER --- GOODALE

ENGAGEMENT

POLICE COURT

PTA SPONSORS DENTAL CLINIC

COMING EVENTS

CLASSIFIED ADS

STRATFORD FESTIVAL
[PHOTO]

Squamish Advance

Squamish Advance: Thursday, January 31, 1952

FAMOUS SKI SLOPES IN GARBALDI PARK
[PHOTO]

HOSPITAL READY TO OPEN IN EARLY APRIL

BEEF PRICES DROP

LEARNING BASIC STEPS OF SKIING

DIAMOND HEAD MAKES BIG MAG

RADIO SHOP HOLDS ANNUAL SALE

SEAL SALE WELL OVER THE TOP

BRACKENDALE

LOGGING LAGGING

LOCAL AND PERSONAL

WHAT NEXT?

BISHOP CONDUCTS ANGLICAN SERVICE

SCHOOL BROADCASTS --- A CBC FEATURE
[PHOTO]

THE SUNSHINE SOCIETY
[PHOTO]

LOCAL ROADS IN BAD SHAPE

TENDERS FOR DREDGING

OTHELLO
[PHOTO]

DREDGING TENDERS CALLED

THE WESTERN FIVE - HEARD OVER THE CBC
[PHOTO]

Squamish Advance

Squamish Advance: Thursday, February 7, 1952

JAMES SINCLAIR ADDRESSES LOCAL MEETING

TRADE BOARD HOLDS SUCCESSFUL BANQUET

KING GEORGE PASSES AWAY SUDDENLY

SCOUT COMMISSIONER VISITS SQUAMISH

LOCAL OLD-TIMER PASSES AWAY

FLEETWOOD LOGGING BUYS FLAT CARS

LOCAL AND PERSONAL

LOGGING RESUMING AS SNOW GOES

BONABELLE BACK ON FEBRUARY 13

TENDERS FOR DREDGING

BASTIAN -- SOBOTKA

FURTHER CCF MEETING

[PHOTO]
JANE HARKNESS - rC

CARD OF THANKS

Squamish Advance

Squamish Advance: Thursday, February 14, 1952

MILD WEATHER SPEEDS LOGGING

BOARD OF TRADE HOLDS SESSION

LOCAL HOLIDAY
KING'S FUNERAL THIS FRIDAY

SAVE ALL ARTICLES
DISCARDED ARTICLES MAY BE USEFUL

JOAN MAXWELL
[PHOTO]

SQUAMISH EDGED BY WOODFIBRE BASKETEERS

INSTITUTE ACTIVE

LEGION TO HOLD MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR LATE KING

W.A. TO HANDLE CANCER CAMPAIGN

PLANS MADE FOR KLONDIKE NIGHT

LOCAL AND PERSONAL

BRACKENDALE

WET WEATHER CLEARS SNOW HERE

ROCK SLIDES DELAY PASSENGER TRAINS

LUCILLE DUMONT
[PHOTO]

IN MEMORIAM

CLASSIFIED ADS

FINED FOR TRESSPASS ON INDIAN RESERVE

CANADA SHOWS POPULATION GAIN

LICENCES EXPIRE

WILL HOLD FIRST AID CLASSES HERE

DIES SUDDENLY

FORMER PUBLISHER VISITS SQUAMISH

RETURN TO CITY

MOVE TO NEW HOME

Squamish Advance

Squamish Advance: Thursday, March 13, 1952

LOGGING NOW IN FULL SWING HERE

BASKETBALL GAMES WON BY LOCAL TEAMS

TRADE BOARD DISCUSSES SITE OF NEW DYKE

HOSPITAL BOARD CHOSEN HERE

FALLER INJURED IN LOGGING ACCIDENT

PROGRAM DIRECTOR
[PHOTO]

HOSPITAL TO PROFIT FROM STORE'S SALES

LOCAL AND PERSONAL

SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 48 (HOWE SOUND)
BALANCE SHEET
AS AT DECEMBER 31, 1981

CHALET PREPARES FOR EASTER SEASON

[PHOTO]
THE DIAMOND HEAD SNOWMOBILE

BRACKENDALE

THE CRADLE

LOGGING COMPANY BUYS NEW MACHINE

PUBLIC NOTICE

INSTITUTE PLANS TO COLLECT WOOLENS

IN MEMORIAM

BADMINTON NOTES

CLASSIFIED ADS

MEN WANTED

1 WORKING FOREMAN
2 LABORERS

[PHOTO]
SOLWAY QUARTET - HEARD OVER THE CBC

BEARD GROWING CONTEST NOW OPEN

ROAD AND GUN CLUB IN ANNUAL MEETING

FIRST BABY WILL RECEIVE MANY GIFTS

Squamish Advance

Squamish Advance: Thursday, September 13, 1951

LOGS ROLL AGAIN

MANY CHANGES IN SCHOOL STAFF

OPPORTUNITY FOR BUDDING ARTISTS

BOARD OF TRADE RESUMES WORK

ORCHESTRA FUNCTIONS AGAIN IN SQUAMISH

SURPRISE SHOWER FOR LOCAL BRIDE

FIRE BURNS THROUGH LOGGED-OVER AREA

LOCAL AND PERSONAL

RUBY CHAMBERS
[PHOTO]

REPORTER'S DREAM COMES TRUE

ALISON GRANT
[PHOTO]

A SKIERS PARADIES
[PHOTO]

FIRE BURNS

CLASSIFIED ADS

DANCE PRIZE WINNERS

BRACKENDALE

PLANT SALE IS SUCCESS

Squamish Advance

Squamish Advance: Thursday, November 22, 1951

INDIAN RIVER ROUTE IS DEFINITELY OUT

CHEAPER THAN BEEF?

CHEAPER FARES FOR SCHOOL PUPILS

OUT-OF-TOWN PUPILS FOR SQUAMISH SCHOOL?

INTERMEDIATE CLUB CHOOSES OFFICERS

BUSY IN DECEMBER

LOCAL AND PERSONAL

PAT JOUDRY
[PHOTO]

WHY YOU SHOULD BUY XMAS SEALS

BEVERLEY LONG HEAD JUNIOR BADMINTON

LOGGERS INJURED

ST. JOHN'S W.A. HOLDS ANNIVERSARY SALE

CLASSIFIED ADS

LOCAL TEACHERS ATTEND DISTRICT CONVENTION

BRACKENDALE

THE WESTERN FIVE
[PHOTO]

Squamish Advance

Squamish Advance: Thursday, September 27, 1951

FOREST FIRE EASES

WORK RESUMED ON LEGION HALL

MORRISON - TRUDEAU

LOGGING RESUMED

DAVID CALDWELL WINS LEGION SCHOLARSHIP

BRACKENDALE

START MADE ON HOSPITAL

PARISH HALL IS SCENE OF FIRE

FAST TIME ENDS SUNDAY

LOCAL AND PERSONAL

CONCERT ORCHESTRA FORMS COMMITTEE

THE ANNUAL

ALBERT ATKIN HEADS STUDENT COUNCIL

CBC OPERA COMPANY GOES INTO FOURTH SEASON
[PHOTO]

CARD OF THANKS

HOWE SOUNDINGS
BY WHOSIT

AMATEUR HOUR

UNITED SUNDAY SCHOOL RALLY

CLASSIFIED ADS

Squamish Advance

Squamish Advance: Thursday, July 19, 1951

BOARDS OF TRADE PRESS FOR TRANSPORTATION TO VANCOUVER

BRACKENDALE

SQUAMISH TOWING INSTALLING RADIO IN MOBILE UNITS

NELSON BARREAU DIES SUDDENLY

HEAT WAVE STOPS LOGGING

MAGIC SHOW WELL ATTENDED

JAKE MCCABE
[PHOTO]

LOCAL AND PERSONAL

CLASSIFIED ADS

MASTER CONTROL ROOM
[PHOTO]

Squamish Advance

Squamish Advance: Thursday, February 1, 1951

HIGH WINDS HIT SQUAMISH AREA

LOGGING RESUMED

WORK STARTED ON NEW FILL

BRITANNIA WINS BASKETBALL GAMES

FAIR COMMITTEE NAMES OFFICERS

JUNIOR BADMINTON ENDS TOURNAMENT

WOODFIBRE WINS BADMINTON TOURNEY

JANE HARKNESS
[PHOTO]

BRACKENDALE

LOCAL AND PERSONAL

GORDON WOODWARD'S RADIO PLAY ACCEPTED

CLASSIFIED ADS

BERT PEARL
[PHOTO]

NOTICE

WOODFIBRE

SCHOOL DISTRICT NOL 48 (HOWE SOUND) FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 1950

PUBLIC NOTICE

WAITRESS SUFFERS SEVERE COFFEE BURNS

SCHOOL ORCHESTRA TO GIVE CONCERT

PHIL CARSCALLEN
[PHOTO]

CREDIT UNION MEETING MONDAY

KAY STEVENSON
[PHOTO]

Squamish Advance

Paula the clown

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.

Firefighters - 1913

Firefighters at the "halfway" between Upper Squamish and Cheekye. Paid $0.25 / hour.

Seated far left, Mr Morbray (fire warden); seated left with white hat, Oswald (Ozzie) Ray; far right seated on bench, Charles Sherman Schoonover; seated next to him, Paul Sellons; standing far right, Compton Reade.

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.

In front of logging locomotive

Left to right: Harry Brightbill, Sainsbury (cook), Amedy Levesque in front of logging locomotive, 1910-1013.

Amedy Levesque and his partners, Leviolette, McIntyre, and Levesque Co. ("The French Boys") were the first to use high rigging extensively in the valley. To rig a 70 foot high spruce tree, Arthur McIntyre would go up the tree, no spures, and chop off branches as he went. When he was tired, Amedy Levsque went up, finished chopping off the branches, topped the tree, and hung the two guy lines and blocks.

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