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- CA SQPL 35-020
Stores in front; car repair shops at left; blacksmith shop on the right.
- CA SQPL 17-017
- 1929
Bunk houses loaded on skeleton cars ready to go to Edith Lake Camp site. Looking south.
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
- CA SQPL 28-001
- October 1921
Canadian Pacific Railway during October 1921 flood.
- CA SQPL 05-018
Left to right: Mrs Allen Rae (nee Robertson and would be Mrs Hughie Mills), Minnie Rae, Olive Judd, and Ed Rae on Norton-McKinnon Railway.
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.
Mr Machain and James Eadie standing outside train engine
- CA SQPL 44-004
Left to right: Mr Machain and James Eadie standing outside train engine.
Mr and Mrs James Eadie, Honourable Grace McCarthy, and Mayor Pat Brennan
- CA SQPL 20-016
- May 20, 1977
Mr and Mrs James Eadie, Honourable Grace McCarthy, and Mayor Pat Brennan at inaugural run of Royal Hudson (May 20, 1977).
Merrill & Ring Main Line between Mud Creek and Mamquam River
- CA SQPL 17-026
Gas Locomotive #4 in far end of cut. Cut taken out by hand on 24" guage push car railway. Cut approximately 30' deep at max 300" long.
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
Merrill & Ring Logging Co. Camp
- CA SQPL 17-016
- 1927
Early 1927 in Valleycliffe. Steam locomotives standing approximately where "townhouses" now stand.
Far left: 14 ton Plymouth gas locomotive foreground: "North-western" speeder - Model T Ford engine.
Right: 50 ton shay Loco #1 1 beam frame.
Arch bar trucks. Behind her with crummies, 50 ton shay #2 (new) girder frame, cast frame trucks. Wagon to boiler. Shays converted to oil burners later in 1927.
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
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.
Aldridge, Ed
- CA SQPL 17-019
Merrill & Ring Logging Camp in 1927, looking south.
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.
- CA SQPL 17-011
Looking north.
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
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.
Aldridge, Ed
Merrill & Ring Bridge over the Mamquam River, 1928
- CA SQPL 17-006
- 1928
Approximately 90 feet from the top of the rail to the water in the river. Gas locomotive #4 on the bridge (built by Bill and Sam Culliton). 4 main span strings 90' x 3' diameter. Information from Ed Aldridge.
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
Merrill & Ring Bridge over the little Mamquam
- CA SQPL 17-021
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
Merrill & Ring Boom and Woodyard, 1927
- CA SQPL 17-005
- 1927
Dave Thompson (left) and Charlie Moore. Close up of load of logs.
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
Merrill & Ring "4 Spot" with low built steel laying flatcar
- CA SQPL 17-013
- ~1928
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
Merrill & Ring "4 Spot" on M&R Dock
- CA SQPL 17-012
- ~1929
Merrill & Ring "4 Spot" on M&R Dock at Woodyard and Beach Camp around 1929.
Left to right: Charlie Pierce (Camp Foreman), Big Dave Thompson (head barely visible), Ed Aldridge, Jow Ozanich.
Merrill & Ring "4 Spot" gas locomotive at M&R Camp
- CA SQPL 17-001
- 1929
1929 Merrill & Ring "4 Spot" gas locomotive at M&R Camp, Edith (Baloney) Lake. 13x15 Williamette Trackside Unit (Yarder @ Loader) behind 4 spot. Williamette is pronounced with accent on the Williamette. These (M&R had 2) units 2 cyl. 13x15. Ready for service with all lines etc @ water. Weighed about 100 tons. Ed Aldridge used to move them with the "4 Spot". Comment by Ed Aldridge.
Photo by: Ed Aldridge
Edith Lake was named after Edith Judd (m. Edith Webster), the first white woman to travel to the lake.
Aldridge, Ed
- CA SQPL 17-030
- 1928
50 ton Shay descending 6% grade on Bughouse Heights banks, 1928.
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
- CA SQPL 17-014
- 1927
Merrill & Ring "2 Spot" (wood burning) pushing drag out on dump. Charlie Calchan Engineer Boom Camp & Wood Yard. Comments by Ed Alridge: Note wood all gone off tender. Will wood up at wood yard before leaving. Steel gang unload steel of scow - at gridion in foreground.
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
Merrill & Ring -0-4-0 - 14 ton Plymouth Gas Loco
- CA SQPL 17-007
- 1929 - 1930
Merrill & Ring -0-4-0 - 14 ton Plymouth Gas Locomotive with steel laying float car ahead and "crummy" behind at Edith Lake Camp, 1929 - 1930. "Ausie" Pete Craddock in cab.
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
Men with grain and railway signs
- CA SQPL STA-1970-1972.xx.xx.272
- 1972
Part of Squamish Times Archive
Squamish Times
May Day 1928 float on PGE tracks
- CA SQPL 34-011
- 1928
Attendant: Evelyn Chadwick.
Teacher: Freda Lasser.
Others unknown.
- CA SQPL 19-012
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Mashiter's store on the left in present site of Shell bulk plant.
Looking south over open observation cars of PGE Sunday train to Alta Lake
- CA SQPL 17-029
- 1927 - 1928
Ship is probably "Lady Cynthia", sister ship to "Lady Cecilia" (union steamships).
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
- CA SQPL 22-011
- 1911