Grading the road from Squamish to Cheekye
- CA SQPL 11-002
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Grading the road from Squamish to Cheekye (30-35).
Left to right: Claude Hertnell, Lawson Rae.
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Grading the road from Squamish to Cheekye
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Grading the road from Squamish to Cheekye (30-35).
Left to right: Claude Hertnell, Lawson Rae.
417477 Government Road
This lovely log house was built by Charles Schoonover in 1932. Having worked as a hunter, trapper, and logger further up in the valley for nearly 30 years, Schoonover settled his family here in a house that reflected the beauty of the forests he loved.
Original use: Private residence.
Current use: Private residence.
Current condition: Very well maintained.
Woodfibre Plant construction, 1960
Clearing being done for new United Church, 1962
The church purchased two lots behind the building in 1962 to construct additions to meet the need of more room for their growing number of children in Sunday School.
This church (38014 Fourth Avenue) was built for the Presbyterian community in 1921. After several years of services held in the Anglican Church, the Presbyterian community raised this second church in Squamish.
Original use: Church.
Current use: Church.
Current condition: Well maintained, still in use as a church.
Woodfibre Plant construction, 1961
Evelyn Lamport on Merrill & Ring railroad trestle
Evelyn Lamport on Merrill & Ring railroad trestle (present site is just north of Ayr Drive in Garibaldi Highlands). Built along the face of rock bluffs. Photo taken ~1928 on the way to Alice Lake.
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.
Alec Munro's horse team packing pipe to Utopia Dam, Britannia.
Vic Hurford (left) and Les Armstrong in front of a gravel truck
Merrill & Ring "4 Spot" with low built steel laying flatcar
Merrill & Ring 4 Spot with low built steel laying flatcar, ~1928 in Stawamus Valley. Climbing 6% grade on branch that ran south to Bughouse Heights.
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
Orval Van Horlick and Alec Munro
Orval Van Horlick on right and Alec Munro on left setting up tent in Britannia, 1927.
Building railway through Cheakamus canyon
Merrill & Ring Bridge over the little Mamquam
Merrill & Ring Bridge over the little Mamquam (Mashiter Creek) picture taken looking north showing sky line for taking Pile Driver to north side of canyon (1928 - 1929).
Left to right: Brian Buckley (?), "Big Dave" Thompson (steel boss-track layer), Freddy Tom (Merrill & Ring car builder son), Billy Dawson (?).
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
Mashiter Creek was named after William Mashiter.
Aldridge, Ed
Construction of BC Tel on Cleveland Avenue with the Firehall in the background. Finished in 1950.
Road construction from Squamish to Britannia, 1939
Laying steel over Merrill & Ring Mud Creek Bridge
Laying steel over Merrill & Ring Mud Creek Bridge, 1927 (now called "Ring Creek").
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
Line of cars waiting due to road grading
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Highway 99 (?)
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Location unknown.
Work at little Stawamus bridge
The actual Indian spelling of Stawamus is STA-a-mus and is a variant of Squamish and means "birthplace of the winds". Pioneers often used "Stamish" instead of "Stawamus". The name refers to the Indian reserve at the mouth of the Squamish River (Reserve #24), the Stawamus River, the area drained by it and the "Chief".
Squamish Public Library, Squamish Files: Place Names.
Construction of Mashiter School
Photo taken on June 25, 1915 of the construction of Mashiter School.
Construction of new M Creek Bridge