- CA SQPL 06-087
- 1942
Elvira Schoonover sitting outdoors at the Schoonover place.
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Elvira Schoonover sitting outdoors at the Schoonover place.
Elvira Schoonover in her early twenties
Elvira Schoonover with Billy Goat
Elvira Schoonover with "Billy Goat". Picture taken where present Easter Seal Camp stands.
Elvira's husband brought home an orphaned kid goat one day and Elvira raised it on the bottle. It became quite tame but as it grew it became a loving nuisance. The Schoonovers didn't know where to put it until an ad for "wild" animals in a Vancouver paper gave them an "out". An answer brought the agent for a noble English lord to Schoonover Manor and soon Big Billy was part of the Duke of Bedford's estate.
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.
Frank Buckley and wife Doris riding in a horse drawn carriage.
George Duryer came to Squamish in 1913 and would wallpaper and decorate homes.
Government Wharf shot from where the boats come in
On the left is a part of a boat coming in. At the far end of the dock is Galbraith's Hotel. In the foreground to the right is Freight house.
Young girl, Grace Rae poses with dog.
Left to right, back row: Mary Schoonover, Elvira Schoonover.
Front row: Robert Schoonover, Mildred Schoonover.
Hop. farm barn (across from Eagle run).
Hop farming was Squamish's first major industry. The major producer was Squamish Valley Hop Raising Co. (Bell-Irving Ranch). Hops are perennials and grown about 6 feet apart. They are picked during September and August. Hops are dried and bleached with sulphur in a kiln. In Squamish, Chinese labour was brought in to tend the hops. Local Squamish Nation were the pickers. They would camp in the area now between Petro Canada gas station and the Cottonwood condominiums. The hops in Squamish were top grade. They were shipped to Vancouver in bales wrapped in Burlap, then shipped to Britain where they were used to make beer.
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.
Jack MacDonald's daughter, Avril
Young girl, Jean Herres poses underneath a horse beside a dog. Chickens are in the background.
Jessie and Bert Rae, Myrtle Herndl
Left to right: Mrs Jessie Rae (nee Judd), her husband Bert, and Mrs Myrtle Herndl (nee Judd).
Chief Jimmy and his wife pictured between 1912 and 1914. Picture was taken at the home of Elvira Schoonover.
John Bracken's old home in Brackendale
Marlo Sandhoff, Robert Stewart Rae, Scott MacDonald, Jimmy Rae
Left to right: Marlo Sandhoff, Robert Stewart (Bert) Rae, Scott MacDonald, Jimmy Rae