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Pipe

CA SQPL STA-1950-1959.xx.xx.005

Part of Squamish Times Archive

This photo was labelled "D."

Picture of the snowplow on Engine No. 59

CA SQPL 06-058
~1930

Part of Scott and Mildred MacDonald Photograph Collection

Picture taken at 19 mile bridge, 4 miles above Swift Creek. Circa 1930.

PGE's inaugural train to Squamish

CA SQPL 19-026

Part of Unknown Photograph Collection

The original photograph was recorded to be from August 28, 1956 and pictured Premier W.A.C. Bennet on the far right.

Additional information from Trevor Mills, 01/2012: This photo is to early for 1956 as the original caption says. The use of sides on a flat car to carry people was outlawed by 1956. The caboose behind the engine had been scrapped by this time. The first run to Squamish was pulled by diesels and not steam. Trevor Mills' father, PGE locomotive engineer Bert Mills who came to Squamish in 1954 following employment with the CPR after arriving from England in 1948. was on the train. This was probably the first through train to Lillooet in 1915. The premier at the time was James McBride.

PGE truck delivering supplies

CA SQPL 38-006
1958

Part of Aleeta Armstrong Photograph Collection

PGE truck delivering supplies to a Union Steamship docked at Government Wharf, 1958.

PGE train at D'Arcy

CA SQPL 05-076

Part of Bob Armstrong Photograph Collection

PGE track - 1913

CA SQPL 19-041
1913

Part of Unknown Photograph Collection

PGE "Sparkey" by water tower

CA SQPL 19-006
February 1960

Part of Unknown Photograph Collection

PGE "Sparkey" by water tower

CA SQPL 19-014
1947

Part of Unknown Photograph Collection

PGE "Sparkey"

CA SQPL 05-034

Part of Bob Armstrong Photograph Collection

PGE shops - retirement of Harold Bailey, 1951

CA SQPL 17-034

Part of Ed Aldridge Photograph Collection

Left to right, top row: Mr Vogle, Les Moule, Bill Richmond, Owen Reeve, ?, George Appleyard, Fred Barnfield, Bill McAllister, Les Walton, Tommy Gilgan, Russ Lamport, Brian Buckley, ?, Jimmy Harley (in loco).
Third row: Bill Curran, Len Gorsuch.
Second row: Eric Axen, Art Anglin, Ed Aldridge, Jack Frost, Tommy Fowler, Harold Bailey, Don Robinson, Frank King, Rosie Zack, Lil Hutchinson, Christy Wheatley, Mrs Tremblay, Margaret Thorne, Bill Hales, Bob Slack, Harry Brightbill, Bob Bruce, ?, ?, ?, ?, Joe Gault, Joe Mulhern, Bill Riley, Barry Hunt, Cy Marchant, Bill Bazley.
Front row: Jim Taylor, Jim Hurren, Ivo Confortin, Jim Robinson, Tommy Fraser, Bill Gedge.
Dennis or Buzz Downer, ?, ,?, Arnold Kermein.

PGE Pile Driver

CA SQPL 05-033

Part of Bob Armstrong Photograph Collection

PGE in Upper Squamish, 1914

CA SQPL 22-030
1914

Part of View from the Chief Photograph Collection

PGE flyer (winter)

CA SQPL 19-022

Part of Unknown Photograph Collection

PGE fire truck

CA SQPL 20-106

Part of Squamish Times Photograph Collection

Norm McPherson (right), man on left unknown.

PGE Duplexes at Castles Crossing

CA SQPL 19-023

Part of Unknown Photograph Collection

View looking south near the present BCR Station.

PGE construction, Lillooet 1927

CA SQPL 13-039
1927

Part of Vancouver Public Library Photograph Collection

PGE at Prince George bulletin board

CA SQPL ST_RTP-1950-1952.11.xx.001
November 1952

Part of Rose Tatlow Photos from the Squamish Times Archive

PGE 55 locomotive at Alta Lake

CA SQPL 17-032
1927 - 1928

Part of Ed Aldridge Photograph Collection

Left to right: Hector McLean, Ed Aldridge, Henry Jensen. At Rainbow Lodge.

People sawing log

CA SQPL 14-010

Part of Mike Buckley Photograph Collection

Suspected to be friends / relatives of the Buckley family.

Pear Lake (Scouts)

CA SQPL ST_RTP-Unknown-19xx.xx.xx.308

Part of Rose Tatlow Photos from the Squamish Times Archive

Paula the clown

CA SQPL 20-009

Part of Squamish Times Photograph Collection

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.

Pat Brennan placing extension on boiler smoke stack

CA SQPL 20-006

Part of Squamish Times Photograph Collection

Pat Brennan placing an extension on a boiler smoke stack in Woodfibre.

Pat Brennan at Squamish Mills

CA SQPL 20-030
1963

Part of Squamish Times Photograph Collection

Squamish Mills was incorporated by Pat Brennan and John Drenka in 1951. They bought the former PGE site and building located on the east bank of the Mamquam Channel. They planned to build a shingle mill but logging was more feasible economically. In 1956, approximately 3 local men were employed and the company started logging in Upper Squamish on Crown loand with a timber quota of 7 million foot board measure (f.b.m.) per year. Equipment consisted of 1010 Laurence donkey for yarding and a Fordson donkey for loading. Pat Brennan was the president.