1st PGE Train Schedule for Squamish Area
- CA SQPL 17-002
- November 1, 1913
Photoraph of the 1st PGE Train Schedule for Squamish Area on November 1, 1913.
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1st PGE Train Schedule for Squamish Area
Photoraph of the 1st PGE Train Schedule for Squamish Area on November 1, 1913.
Part of Squamish Times Archive
Left to right: Alta Lamport (Mrs Ed Aldridge) and Mary Munro (Mrs Stan Goad).
Angus McCrae, locomotive engineer
Angus McRae, a locomotive engineer standing on his locomotive (Engine No. 59) with two engines pushing behind clearing the track. Picture taken about 4 miles above Swift Creek.
Building railway through Cheakamus canyon
Building railway through Cheakamus Canyon
Charlie Midnight (right) on pushcart. Man on left: unknown.
Part of Squamish Times Archive
Part of Squamish Times Archive
On the back, it says:
Cleaning locomotive component in recently installed [unclear] degrease.
Henry Veischoof__L. G. McAbee
Joe Trento__Peter Bridge
Squamish Times
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Left to right: Stan Clarke's first gas station, harding's barbershop (Stan Harding lived above), PGE Houses, fire hall (with smoke stack), post office.
Cleveland Avenue, Squamish's main street is named after E.A. Cleveland, the BC land surveyor who drew up the plan of the subdivision of Squamish in 1912. All subsequent surveys have been based on this.
Part of Squamish Times Archive
Digging ditch (by train tracks)
Part of Squamish Times Archive
Identified men in Vancouver (?)
Engine No. 52 arriving at Newport
Engine No. 52 arriving at Newport (Squamish). The date on the arrival of this locomotive was November 13, 1913.
Evelyn Lamport on Merrill & Ring railroad trestle
Evelyn Lamport on Merrill & Ring railroad trestle (present site is just north of Ayr Drive in Garibaldi Highlands). Built along the face of rock bluffs. Photo taken ~1928 on the way to Alice Lake.
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.
Fighting deep snow in Cunningham Cut Mile 19.5
Fighting deep snow in Cunningham Cut Mile 19.5 (now 58 Miles), 1935.
Photo by: H. Brightbill
Brightbill, Harry
First Aid House at PGE shops, Squamish
Left to right: ?, Charlie Lamport, ?, ?, Bill Bazely, Paul Powell, Marsh Hurren, ?, Ivo Confortin, Eric Anderson, Sonny Rennie.
First full train of logs going south
First full train of logs going south through "Old Camp" on way to dump. Merrill and Ring 0-4-0 14 ton plymouth gas locomotive.
Left to right: Bun Yarwood, ?, Big Dave Thompson, Al Lund, ?, Bill Tourcotte, ?.
May 1927.
Photo by Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
First locomotive to come up Howe Sound to Norton & McKinnon logging operation
Left to right: Tommy Dickenson (book keeper), George Percy (superintendent), Pete Olsen (hooktender), Al Lund (head high rigger). Taken in 1927 where South Park apartments now stand.
Engine - 50 ton wood burning shay later converted to oil burner. First locomotive to come up Howe Sound to Norton & McKinnon logging operation. Acquired by Merrill & Ring for fire damage to Merrill & Ring timber when Norton McKinnon had a bad fire. Loco taken out of Squamish to other Merrill & Ring operations and came back to Squamish in late 1927 or early 1927. Shark arrester smoke stack loco.
Information supplied by Ed Aldridge.
Photo by: Bun Yarwood.
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.
First passenger train out of Newport - PGE