- CA SQPL 05-046
- December 1941
During the flood in December 1941.
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During the flood in December 1941.
Mamquam River Bridge - 1941 flood
Mamquam River was named for the Indian word meaning "smelly water".
Herbert & Minnie Armstrong's children
Left to right, back: Gertrude (Mrs Wilson), Margareta (Mrs McLeod), Mabel (Mrs Keith) holding Les.
Front: Bob, Jim.
House across from Mamquam School on Government Road.
Left to right: Mrs Kate Mills, Ozzie Rae, Olive Judd, and Minnie Rae on the Mackinnon Railway.
In 1910, a man by the name of Norton McKinnon came to the area to log by railway, laying track from the Mamquam River to the Northern Pemberton Railway line. Unfortunately, a company fire in 1913 by the Mamquam River resulted in the loss of McKinnon’s business, and he left Squamish soon after.
Despite this setback to one of the first logging pioneers, harvesting continued through the Squamish area with the company of Merrill and Ring. With a steam engine salvaged from Norton McKinnon’s company, Merrill and Ring continued laying railway track from what is now the log dump south of the Stawamus Reserve to Valleycliffe and across the Mamquam River.
Minnie & Herb Armstrong's children
Minnie (nee Rae) & Herb Armstrong's children. Left to right: Mabel (Mrs Keith), Bob, Margareta (Mugs - Mrs McLeod), and Jim watching train go by in home across from Mamquam School on Government Road.