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Merrill & Ring logging operation
- CA SQPL 11-001
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
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.
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.
- CA SQPL 11-003
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
In the present location of the Vriend's home, near Leski's Crossing.
- CA SQPL 11-004
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Original building of the Mashiter School. Man riding a bicycle in the foreground.
- CA SQPL 11-005
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
- CA SQPL 11-006
- 1913
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Squamish's name was changed to Newport in 1911 by the H.S. and P.V.N. Railway and was changed back on September 14, 1914 as the result of a contest for school children. The name had to be changed since there was another town in BC named Newport. The twelve final names considered in the contest were: Newport, Strathacona, Prince Arthur, Kingsport, Great Haven, Columbia, Imperial, Squamish, Pacificgate, Bonaventure, and Viveleroi. Squamish is named for the Indian word "Squohomish" (various spellings) meaning "strong wind".
- CA SQPL 11-007
- 1940
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Red and White food store (Adams and Adams) during the 1940 flood.
- CA SQPL 11-008
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Newport Hotel on the left (corner of Cleveland and Victoria Avenue); current location of the Chieftain Hotel.
- CA SQPL 11-009
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Would become Squamish Hotel and then later the Ocean Port Hotel (37991 Second Avenue).
Although the original building has been altered nearly beyond recognition, the basic structure of the Squamish Hotel was constructed in 1910 as the King George Hotel by W.A. Holland. Like the Brackendale Store, the Squamish Hotel is a building which may hold heritage value to the community not for its present appearance, but for its prominence as a landmark and reference point in the local landscape for over 75 years.
Original use: Hotel, pub.
Current use: Hotel, pub, restaurant, Cold Beer and Wine Store.
Current condition: Nearly unrecognizable from the original form.
Unknown, William Mashiter, George Paddy, Jessie MacDonald
- CA SQPL 11-010
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Left to right: Unknown, William Mashiter, George Paddy, Miss Jessie McDonald.
Norton-McKinnon Logging Company
- CA SQPL 11-011
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Four loggers unknown.
In 1911, McKinnon and Norton of the Newport Timber Company were logging in Squamish in the area known as the base camp road, near Curly Lews' place. They had donkeys, a large shay engine, and a weird whistle. Mr McKinnon was a bartender and Mr Norton was a logger. Amedy Levesque and George Laviolette worked as brakemen on the locomotive. The camp was run by Mr Fuller.
- CA SQPL 11-012
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Names suspected to be incorrect.
- CA SQPL 11-013
- 1889
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Albert Chamberlain pre-empted on an island across from the Brennan property. It was named Chamberlain Island. The island is now part of Baynes Island.
Albert also had a farm.
- CA SQPL 11-014
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Brohm Lake and Brohm Ridge were named after pioneer William Brohm. The ridge is the northernmost of two prominent buttresses on the west face of Garibaldi Mountain.
Mr and Mrs J. Edwards - Christmas 1909
- CA SQPL 11-015
- 1909
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
- CA SQPL 11-016
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Lamb's logging - Lefurgy Ltd (Garibaldi & Logging Camp, Brackendale).
Research compiled by Eric Andersen, 2011: Lamb Bros. Logging camp ca 1912, on present site of Garibaldi Cemetery. The Company ran a rail car loading operation similar to that of Squamish Timber Co. two miles to the north. The Cheekye log flume crossed this camp site, later occupied by a Japanese logging company.
- CA SQPL 11-018
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Names suspected to be incorrect.
- CA SQPL 11-019
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
- CA SQPL 11-020
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
- CA SQPL 11-021
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Location unknown.
Downtown Squamish during winter
- CA SQPL 11-022
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
19?s's.
Line of cars waiting due to road grading
- CA SQPL 11-023
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Highway 99 (?)
- CA SQPL 11-024
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Location unknown.
Children crossing outside Mashiter School
- CA SQPL 11-025
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Photo by: Mrs Hugh MacKay (nee Jean Reid).