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Robert (Bert) Stewart Rae working for Craig and Taylor Logging.
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Robert (Bert) Stewart Rae working for Craig and Taylor Logging.
Jack Habricht at Skunk Hollow (Valleycliffe now).
Mr and Mrs Watt at their store in Cheekye
Left to right: Bill Huston and Bill Touton (first mailmain) in 1926 sawing logs.
Photo from Van Horlick Collection. Group of young men in suits. Identities and location unknown. Possibly Herres friends / relatives?
Edgar Rae, Minnie Armstrong, Edith Rae
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Left to right: Edgar Rae, Minnie Armstrong, Edith Rae.
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Left to right: Walter Gill (policeman) and Bun Yarwood after duck hunting in the late 1920's.
Walter Magee on Cheakamus Bridge
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Bruce Fletcher, first teacher at Mashiter School.
Walter Magee with Herres girls
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Walter Magee with Herres girls on bridge at Cheakamus. Suspected to be Lizzie on the left (Mrs Bill Tourcot) and Mary on the right (Mrs Al Armstrong).
Ivo Confortin and Don Kirkwood
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Ivo Confortin (rear) and Don Kirkwood (fore) in front of a PGE boxcar. The man in the middle is unknown.
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
George Munro and Bill Pendergrast boxing at a picnic on June 11, 1933.
Downtown Squamish during 1940 flood
Across Cleveland Avenue from the current Chieftain Hotel.
Left to right: Chief Jimmy, unknown, August Jack.
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.
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.
Marlo Sandhoff, Robert Stewart Rae, Scott MacDonald, Jimmy Rae
Left to right: Marlo Sandhoff, Robert Stewart (Bert) Rae, Scott MacDonald, Jimmy Rae
Robert Schoonover (left) and father Charles Sherman Schoonover posing with rifles, 1900.
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.
Charles Sherman Shoonover in his early twenties