Yarwood Drugs with crowd watching May Day parade
- CA SQPL 19-068
- 1960
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Corner of Cleveland and Victoria, across from the Chieftain.
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Yarwood Drugs with crowd watching May Day parade
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Corner of Cleveland and Victoria, across from the Chieftain.
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Located at present BC Hydro site.
Photo by: Magee.
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.
Research compiled by Eric Andersen, 2011: This photo, apparently taken by one of the Magee brothers, shows the construction phase of the flume project. The location is at the west side of the Squamish Timber Company camp, just above the bank of the Brohm River, which is to the left from this scene. It is difficult to tell from the photograph whether the water for the flume is being led from the Brohm River (in the back and to the left of of the photo) or the Cheekye River (around to the right). Either is possible. The Squamish Timber Co. camp and the beginning of the flume lies between the Brohm River and the Cheekye River. Water for the flume might be more easily taken from the Brohm (closer), but the Cheekye has the steeper gradient. The larger the logs to be flumed, and the steeper the grade, the more water is required.
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Walter Magee with Herres girls
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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).
Walter Magee on Cheakamus Bridge
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Left to right: Walter Gill (policeman) and Bun Yarwood after duck hunting in the late 1920's.
Train on PGE Railway near Squamish
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Track going out on Government Wharf
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This granite monolith is approximately 700 metres high and is second only to Gibraltar in size. It is so named because its outline against the sky forms the profile of a sleeping Indian chief. The profile of a chief's face can also be seen in the rock.
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This granite monolith is approximately 700 metres high and is second only to Gibraltar in size. It is so named because its outline against the sky forms the profile of a sleeping Indian chief. The profile of a chief's face can also be seen in the rock.
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Aerial view of Squamish and Howe Sound
Spectators at May Day 1960 parade in front of Mashiter School
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Spectators at May Day 1960 parade
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In front of Mackenzie's store.
Spectators at May Day 1960 Parade
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Left to right: Hazel Lassman, (child), Harry Lassman, ?, (child), (child in buggy), Sonny Reennie, Mrs Lyle McPherson, Gail Summerskill, Rosaleen Solecki, Maureen Reennie.
Spectators at May Day 1960 parade
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Spectators at May Day 1960 parade
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Spectators at 1960 (?) May Day Parade
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Spectators 1960, May Day Parade
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Jack Mahood with wife and children to right. Burness Boscariol, 3rd from left. Children to left: Brett and Cal Hartnell. MacKenzies Department Store in the background.
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Stu Foreman family in front of Harold Bailey home as spectators at the 1960 May Day parade. Mr Bailey can be seen directly behind Stu Foreman. Mrs Ellie Moon behind the gate.
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Left to right, back row: Mr E. Hayes, Norm Barr, Alan Dent, Norm Halvorson, Jim Buchanan.
Front row: Phyllis Dorman, Phyllis Lewis, Harold Halvorson, Anne Morrison, Eleanor Sullivan, Betty Jordan.
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Photo by: Evans
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Robertson homestead, the first white settlers in Squamish (1888).
PGE's inaugural train to Squamish
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The original photograph was recorded to be from August 28, 1956 and pictured Premier W.A.C. Bennet on the far right.
Additional information from Trevor Mills, 01/2012: This photo is to early for 1956 as the original caption says. The use of sides on a flat car to carry people was outlawed by 1956. The caboose behind the engine had been scrapped by this time. The first run to Squamish was pulled by diesels and not steam. Trevor Mills' father, PGE locomotive engineer Bert Mills who came to Squamish in 1954 following employment with the CPR after arriving from England in 1948. was on the train. This was probably the first through train to Lillooet in 1915. The premier at the time was James McBride.
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