- CA SQPL 16-008
- 1918
Left to right: Herb Armstrong, Scott MacDonald, Paul Sellons, Mrs Allan Barbour (nee Kathleen Mary Boyle), Allan Barbour, son Richard in 1918.
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Left to right: Herb Armstrong, Scott MacDonald, Paul Sellons, Mrs Allan Barbour (nee Kathleen Mary Boyle), Allan Barbour, son Richard in 1918.
Rose McNeil and Daisy Barnfield with her children
Left to right: Rose McNeil and Daisy Barnfield (nee Eck) with her children Vera and Fred Barnfield. Early 1920's, feeding chickens.
Vera Swann, Daisy Barnfield, Mrs Marsh
Vera Swann, Daisy Barnfield (mother), Mrs Marsh
Helen Barr, Rose Tatlow, Mrs Lasser, Bruce McCallum
Left to right: Helen Barr, Rose Tatlow (nee Lasser), Mrs Lasser, and Bruce McCallum in the late 1930's.
Eleanor Bishop and son, Robert Jr, along Cleveland Avenue. Note the old wooden sidewalk.
Photo by: Robert Bishop.
Robert Bishop and Eleanor Sullivan
Robert Bishop and Eleanor Sullivan pictured on Cleveland Avenue in front of Kennedy's Hardware, 1949.
Anne Boscariol and Louise Patrick
Standing in front of old Newport Hotel on Cleveland Avenue. The hotel was located at the existing site of the Chieftain Hotel. The Hotel burned down in 1958.
Part of Jessie Rae Photograph Collection
Left to right, back row: Richard Brandt, Bill Davidson, Harry Rae, Bert Rae, Jimmy Rae, ?, ?.
Middle row: Mrs Harry Rae, Anne Davidson, Duncan Davidson, Mrs Jimmy Rae, Carla Rae, Jessie Rae, ?.
Front row: ?, Kevin Rae, Janey Rae, Annette Rae, Christine Rae.
Doris (nee Thorne) & Ozzie Rae
Mildred MacDonald with James and Neettie Eadie
Mildred MacDonald seated at the back with James and Neettie Eadie in the front.
Sitting on a train (Engine #51).
James and Janet Eadie with son Fred sitting on a train (Engine #51).
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.
Part of Jessie Rae Photograph Collection
Left to right, back row: Olive Judd (Mrs William Webster), Mary Edwards (nee Tompkins), ?, Agnes MacDonald, Clara Rae (Mrs Lawson Rae), ?, Jessie Rae (nee Judd) holding daughter Anne.
Front row: Elvira Schoonover, Mrs Bump, Barbara Anne Judd (kneeling), Gwenyth Judd (Mrs Earl Thomas Judd) holding Harry Judd, Mrs Bonson.
Mary Edwards, Olive Webster, Barbara Anne Judd
Part of Jessie Rae Photograph Collection
Mrs Mary Edwards, Olive Webster (nee Judd), Barbara Anne Judd (nee Edwards), and Tommy Webster in front.
Jean Galbraith McRae, Doris Galbraith Buckley, Isobel Galbraith
Left to right: Jean Galbraith McRae, Doris Galbraith Buckley, Isobel Galbraith.
Marriage of Frank Buckley to Doris Galbraith, 1914
Left to right: Mr and Mrs Frank Buckley, David Galbraith, Isobel Galbraith, Jean Galbraith, Laurie Galbraith (Mrs David Galbraith.
Left to right: Alta Lamport (Mrs Ed Aldridge) and Mary Munro (Mrs Stan Goad).
Mary Goad, visitor, and Gerty Wilson
Left to right: Mary Goad (nee Munro), visitor, Gerty Wilson (nee Armstrong) in front of Harry Nichol's home.
Left to right: Mr and Mrs Greer, Elvira Schoonover, Sigrid Anderson.
Top: Eleanor Sullivan, Marianne Jacobson, Mae Franson.
Left to right, second row: Shirley Nodd, Anne Morrison, Peggy Lane, Aleeta Smith.
Front row (kneeling): Violet Halvorson, Tess Martin.
38033 Second Avenue
The PGE Hall was built in the 1930's as a local community 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.
Left to right: Norma Kindree, Aleeta Smith, ?, Tess Martin, Ruth Morrison, Anne Morrison, ?, Shirley Harding, Christine Nygard, Mae Mabelson.
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Mrs Basil Hartnelle with sons Brett and Cal watch the 1960 May Day parade from a car.
Spectators 1960, May Day Parade
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Jack Mahood with wife and children to right. Burness Boscariol, 3rd from left. Children to left: Brett and Cal Hartnell. MacKenzies Department Store in the background.