Woodfibre flood - December 1963
- CA SQPL 23-001
- December 1963
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Woodfibre flood - December 1963
Brass Band in Labour day Parade, 1950
Woodfibre flood - December 1963
Vancouver Ladies Pipe Band in Labour Day Parade, 1953
Woodfibre - plant and townsite
The name for the Woodfibre area (once a community but now solely the site of a pulp mill by the same name) was established in 1921 as the result of a contest. The previous was Mill Creek and had to be changed because there was another post office of the same name. The winner of the contest and $50 prize was Cathy Haar.
Squamish Public Library, Squamish Files: Place Names.
Woodfibre flood - December 1963
Woodfibre flood - December 1963
Main Street, with Canadian Legion on the right. Woodfibre, circa 1953.
The name for the Woodfibre area (once a community but now solely the site of a pulp mill by the same name) was established in 1921 as the result of a contest. The previous was Mill Creek and had to be changed because there was another post office of the same name. The winner of the contest and $50 prize was Cathy Haar.
Woodfibre flood - December 1963
Pat Brennan placing extension on boiler smoke stack
Pat Brennan placing an extension on a boiler smoke stack in Woodfibre.
Dock and warehouses collapsed due to an underwater slide carrying piling out from under the dock. 1400 tons of pulp and 5 forklilfts lost, 1955 in Woodfibre.
Dock and warehouses collapsed due to an underwater slide carrying piling out from under the dock. 1400 tons of pulp and 5 forklifts lost in Woodfibre.
Woodfibre Plant construction, 1960
Trinity Church - Woodfibre, BC
Part of St. John's Scrapbook Collection
Last service on September 24, 1972.
Left to right: Mrs Grace Clarke, Mrs Ruth (Frankie) Wilson, Mrs Peggy Barnfield, Woodfibre resident, Mrs Annie Moon, Reverend A.E.W. Godwin, Mrs Daisy Barnfield, Mrs Margery Hammerstrom, Mrs Nancy Rudkin, Mrs Margery Bruce.
Photo by: Bob Bruce.
Woodfibre Plant construction, 1961
Fish boats tied up at Woodfibre
Fishing was allowed in the north end of the Sound.
Winter in the arly 1960's, main street in Woodfibre.