- CA SQPL ST_RTP-1950-1955.xx.xx.010
- 1955
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Squamish Advance: Thursday, August 23, 1951
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TOT NARROWLY ESCAPES DEATH
SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED BY SCHOOL BOARD
SCHOOL BUILDING SHOWING PROGRESS
LOSES FOREARM IN RAIL MISHAP
IMPROVEMENTS TO LOCAL STREETS
ANGLICAN CHURCH IS RENOVATED
ELKS NEW HOME MOVED TO SITE
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
CUCKOO CLOCK HOUSE HEARD OVER CBC
[PHOTO]
BRACKENDALE
FORMER LOCAL GIRL IS TENNIS STAR
CLASSIFIED ADS
BILL HERBERT
[PHOTO]
TO COVER ROYAL TOUR
SUNSHINE SOCIETY HEARD DAILY OVER CBC
[PHOTO]
KNEES TAKE BEATING
BOARD OF TRADE VISITS CHALET
MURIEL MILLARD
[PHOTO]
HEARD OVER CBC
Squamish Advance
The photograph was originally recorded as a view from station platform looking north.
Additional information from Trevor Mills, 01/2012: This photo is looking south not north. It was taken from a boxcar at the freight shed. The station is the small building on the right of the photo so this could not have been taken from the platform.
PGE's inaugural train to Squamish
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
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.
Garibaldi passenger car "junked" in North Yards in 1959. Use began again in 1974 with Royal Hudson.
Additional information from Trevor Mills, 01/2012: The PGE Garibaldi car was never used on the Royal Hudson train. The one on the Royal Hudson train was a CPR car that is owned by the Railway Museum in town and can be seen at West Coast Railway Heritage Park.
Photo by: H. Brightbill
Brightbill, Harry
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
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.
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.
In front of logging locomotive
Left to right: Harry Brightbill, Sainsbury (cook), Amedy Levesque in front of logging locomotive, 1910-1013.
Amedy Levesque and his partners, Leviolette, McIntyre, and Levesque Co. ("The French Boys") were the first to use high rigging extensively in the valley. To rig a 70 foot high spruce tree, Arthur McIntyre would go up the tree, no spures, and chop off branches as he went. When he was tired, Amedy Levsque went up, finished chopping off the branches, topped the tree, and hung the two guy lines and blocks.
Passenger train - February 1914
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
James Eadie and Marsh Hurren Sr standing on Loco #51
Left to right: James Eadie and Marsh Hurren Sr standing on Loco #51
Sitting on a train (Engine #51).
James and Janet Eadie with son Fred sitting on a train (Engine #51).
Merrill & Ring Logging Co. Camp
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
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 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
Merrill & Ring "4 Spot" with low built steel laying flatcar
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 -0-4-0 - 14 ton Plymouth Gas Loco
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
Laying steel over Merrill & Ring Mud Creek Bridge
Laying steel over Merrill & Ring Mud Creek Bridge, 1927 (now called "Ring Creek").
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
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
PGE 55 locomotive at Alta Lake
Left to right: Hector McLean, Ed Aldridge, Henry Jensen. At Rainbow Lodge.
Merrill & Ring "4 Spot" on M&R Dock
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.
Fred Downer with Howe Sound & Northern Railway's first locomotive
Howe Sound & Northern Railway's first locomotive