Minnie Armstrong, Herb Armstrong, and daughter Mabel
- CA SQPL 05-073
Minnie Armstrong (nee Rae), Herb Armstrong, and daughter Mabel (Mrs Keith).
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Minnie Armstrong, Herb Armstrong, and daughter Mabel
Minnie Armstrong (nee Rae), Herb Armstrong, and daughter Mabel (Mrs Keith).
Jimmie Rae, Grace Braiathwaite, Jim & Les Armstrong
Jimmie Rae, Grace Braiathwaite (?), Jim & Les Armstrong (sons of Herbert and Minnie Armstrong).
Right to left: Olive Judd (?), Ruth Judd (?), and Edith Judd (?) on Judd Farm.
Jimmy Rae, Mrs Hugh Mills, Hugh Henry Mills
Left to right: Jimmy Rae, Mrs Hugh Mills (formerly Mrs Allen Rae), Hugh Henry Mills.
Left to right: Lawrence Johnson Rae, Harold Thorne (?), Rae boy in horse-drawn cart.
Mrs Kate Mills seated with grandchild
Mrs Kate Mills (formerly Mrs Allan Rae) seated with grandchild.
Suspected cousin of Rae pioneer family
Children of Herbert and Minnie Armstrong
Left to right, back: ?, Gertrude Armstrong, Margareta Armstrong, Mabel Armstrong.
Front: Jim Armstrong, Bob Armstrong, ?.
Believed to be on Allan Rae's side.
Left to right, back row: Rae cousin, Minnie Rae, Mrs Mills.
Front row: ?, Retta Rae.
Left to right: Mrs Kate Mills, Ozzie Rae, Olive Judd, and Minnie Rae on the Mackinnon Railway.
In 1910, a man by the name of Norton McKinnon came to the area to log by railway, laying track from the Mamquam River to the Northern Pemberton Railway line. Unfortunately, a company fire in 1913 by the Mamquam River resulted in the loss of McKinnon’s business, and he left Squamish soon after.
Despite this setback to one of the first logging pioneers, harvesting continued through the Squamish area with the company of Merrill and Ring. With a steam engine salvaged from Norton McKinnon’s company, Merrill and Ring continued laying railway track from what is now the log dump south of the Stawamus Reserve to Valleycliffe and across the Mamquam River.
2nd from right, back row: Scott MacDonald.
Far right, back row: Bert Rae.
Left to right: Mrs Kate Mills (formerly Mrs Allan Rae), ?, Dave Mills.
School teacher at Brackendale School (1906). Stayed with Mrs Allen Rae.
Herbert Lawson Rae, Auntie Minnie, ?
Herbert Lawson Rae, "Auntie Minnie" (Kate Mills' sister), ?
Les Armstrong at the old Armstrong home
Unidentified women - suspected to be relatives from Vancouver of pioneer Rae family.
Left to right: ?, Bob Armstrong, ?, ?, Margareta Armstrong holding brother Les, Mabel Armstrong, James Armstrong.
Group of loggers, maybe in Queen Charlottes. Bert may be seated tenth from right.
Wilfred Rae behind Huey Mills home or hop farm
Wilfred (Whiff) Rae behind Huey Mills home or hop farm.
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 First Nations picked them. 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.