- CA SQPL STA-1950-199.xx.xx.016
- 1959
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Part of Squamish Times Archive
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Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Photo by: Evans
Aerial photo displaying proposed site of pulp and paper mill
Aerial photo displaying the proposed site of a pulp and paper mill. Was to be a joint venture of united Pulp Co. and Price Brothers Co. Ltd.
Photo by: George Allen Aerial Photos Ltd, September 3, 1964.
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.
Suspected to be friends / relatives of the Buckley family.
Canadian Pacific Railway during October 1921 flood.
Alice Lake after logging, 1935
Part of Anne Moore Photograph Collection
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
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The photo says "Harmac News" on the back, and "A. R. Kemp" is printed in the bottom corner.
MacMillan & Bloedel
Howe Sound Company sign and men
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1300-year-old Douglas fir on Waterloo Mountain
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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, October 8, 1953
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MANY ENTER FISH DERBY
BADMINTON TO START SOON
BRIDGE APPROACH NEARS COMPLETION
MANY APPLY FOR PGE POSITION
SCHOOL BOARD HOLDS SESSION AT TOWNSITE
STREETS, LANES IMPROVED
BRIDGE APPROACH NEARS COMPLETION
MANY APPLY FOR PGE POSITION
TELEPHONE SERVICE HAS BEEN EXTENDED
THE CRADLE
BRIDGES REPLACED ON BASE CAMP ROAD
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
BRACKENDALE
HI-SCHOOL HI-LITES
KINDERGARTEN OPENS
EDUCATION ASSISTANCE FOR CHILDREN OF WAR DEAD
TO HOLD NIGHT CLASSES HERE
CANTEEN OPENS AT THE SCHOOL THIS WEEK
DANCING CLASS OPEN HOUSE IS POPULAR
COMING EVENTS
POLICE COURT
"SURE" OF FISH SALE
TRUCK DRIVER HURT IN WOODS ACCIDENT
LEGION NOTES
STAGE SERIES RETURNS
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Squamish Advance