$500,000 bridge over Cheakamus River
- CA SQPL 20-078
$500,000 bridge over Cheakamus River
Freight teams at PGE's Cheakamus camp
Freight teams at PGE's Cheakmus camp - headed by C.R. Crysdale. Division engineer's office on the left. January 1914.
Photo by: Duff.
Part of Magee Photograph Collection
Building railway through Cheakamus Canyon
Bunk houses at Cheekye logging camp
Mike Ross (left) and Bill Tutin (right) at bunk houses at Cheekye logging camp.
The original spelling of the Cheakamus area (river and canyon) is chee-YAK-mush which is Indian for "fish weir". A slight variation in belief is that the original Indian spelling is Tsee-ark-amiskt which means "fish trap" and refers to the difficulty salmon have in travelling up the river.
Allan Barbour and Bill Wallace in one of the first cars in Squamish
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Allan Barbour (left) and Bill Wallace of Cheekye (right) and one of the first cars in Squamish.
Cheakmus House built in 1906 by David Galbraith and Dutch Charlie. Destroyed in the 1940 flood, it was across from the present location of Fergie's. Henry Judd's stage is in front.
Harry Judd's stage in front of Cheakamus house
Harry Judd's stage in front of Cheakamus house (built in 1910 by David Galbraith).
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.
Ozzie Rae on old Cheekye Bridge (?)
Part of G.J. Duff Photograph Collection
Left to right: ?, ?, G.J. Duff, Johnny Doyle (postmaster and lunch counter owner), cook.
Building railway through Cheakamus canyon
Building the Cheakamus Bridge (~1925).
Left to right: Herb Armstrong, Mart McIntyre, Allan Newton Barbour, Paul Sellons.
Left to right: Edgar Baynes, John Redford at Cheekye logging camp.
Robert Stewart (Bert) Rae (left) and Scott MacDonald (right) at bunk houses at Cheekye (now in the location of Fergies) in 1926.
Mr and Mrs Watt at their store in Cheekye
Walter Magee on Cheakamus Bridge
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Cheekye as seen from the bridge
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Cheekye is from the Indian name for Mount Garibald - in-ch-KAI which means "dirty place". The mountain was so named since dirty snow would result when dust would be blown onto the snowfields from cinder cones and lava. The pioneers adapted this name to the area and river.
Walter Magee with Herres girls
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Walter Magee with Herres girls on bridge at Cheakamus. Suspected to be Lizzie on the left (Mrs Bill Tourcot) and Mary on the right (Mrs Al Armstrong).
Steam donkey along Cheekye at Yapp's Logging Camp
Squamish Timber Company's yarding donkey.
In 1907, Allan Newton Barbour and his brother Charles came to Squamish and logged using 6 yoke of oxen and took out six 24' logs a "turn" (load). The area logged was near the PGE Shops (by Castle's Crossing), across the river rom the shops, on the Burnt Ground near the cemetery, at Paradise Valley, and about five miles north of Cheekye. 2 to 20 men were employed. It was customary to log close to the river so the logs just had to be dragged into the river and floated to the Howe Sound where they were picked up by the Powell River company tugs and taken up to their mills. Log jams were broken up by men in canoes. Mr McComb was the first to tow logs down the river in a boat. The Barbours would later sell out to Mr Yapp. Mr Yapp's Squamish Timber Company was incorporated on March 21, 1907. In 1910, the Yapp Company cleared the Cheekye area. A steam donkey would haul the logs 400 feet and then an 8 horse team hauled them 1/2 mile on a skid road. Another donkey, called a roader, took the logs to the river. Here the logs followed a log trough. Instead of chokers, logging dogs were used. When the Howe Sound Northern Railway came into Cheakamus, the Yapp company used the train to transport logs to the booming grounds at Squamish. In 1911, a company owned by Mr Lamb took over the Yapp stand of timber.
In 1912, Arthur McIntyre, Fidolle Laviolette, Amedy Levesque, and George Laviolette ("The French Boys") won a steam donkey from Al Barbour in a poker game. Barbour had refused to sell it to them earlier. Mr Barbour went back to logging with horses hauling the timber out on skid roads until he could afford another donkey. The boys formed a partnership called the Laviolette, McIntyre, and Levesque Logging Co.
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.