The Barbours– Pioneers of Squamish and

Pemberton

Eric Andersen

Sea to Sky Forestry Centre Society

August 16, 2016

Charles Barbour1858-1940

Allan Newton Barbour1869-1953

Brackendale

pioneer Eric Axen

in interview:

The Barbour story, Barbour artifacts, and Barbour family members have always been connected to the cause of establishing a Squamish community museum!

Ken Barbour 1923 Squamish – 2013 Vancouver

Ken Barbour opens Squamish Days Loggers Sports show in 2009

Farm of Robert Barbour Jr. and Mary Ann Barbour, Dunlop, Gloucester County NB

Barbour farm, Dunlop NB

A migration from east to west of people, capital, technology, skills and culture

Log jam,

Tetagouche Falls NB

ca 1910

(near the Barbour family home)

Carlo River, New Brunswick – home district for Squamish loggers, the “French Boys” (Laviolette, McIntyre and Leveque Logging Co.)

Jos Montferrand

Squamish postcard sent to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia in 1911

Spokane WA 1897

“Professor” James Wilfred Barbour1865-1919

World welterweight champion Jimmy

‘Babyface’ McLarnin at Britannia, 1930

Henry Lundgren with provincial champ visiting Pemberton, 1930

Charles Barbour in late 1890s

– around time of his journey to Klondyke goldfields

Also in the Klondyke:

Will & Bob Miller, and Joe and Jack

Ronayne

Applying for mining licences at Victoria, 1897

Barbour Bros. Logging Co. at Squamish

1901

Charlie Schoonover with logging oxen purchased in Pemberton Valley, 1906

Barbour Bros. building skid road, north of Brackendale early 1900s

Charles Barbour

Allan Barbour

‘Skookum’ Charlie Douglas (in Stetson hat)

Same Barbour Bros. logging area today – the “Wonderland Trail”

Charlie Douglas

At Brackendale during 1921 flood – Charlie Douglas at centre

August Jack Khahtsahlano at Squamish Valley Fall Fair ca 1920

August Jack,

Dominic Charlie, Isaac Jacob,

JosephineBilly Snow Williams & family

Dan Paull & family

Squamish Timber Co. Cheekye River camp – taken over from Barbour Bros. ca 1908

Flack building, West Hastings St., Vancouver

Head offices of Squamish Timber Company Ltd., 1907-1917

1905-06

Squamish Timber Co. crew along lower Cheakamus River ca 1908-09

Squamish Towing & Contracting Ltd. log driving on the Squamish River 1950

(Gauthier) Driving cottonwood logs down Lillooet River 1921

Trethewey Logging Company log driving on Lillooet River, 1940

Squamish 1914 –

railway log dump at left

Boom at Squamish River mouth 1904

Barbour Bros.

Squamish Boom

Company crew ca

1910

Ken Barbour and Allan Barbour 2011

Charles Barbour also

owned land in Squamish;

Al Barbour owned land in

Pemberton (later lost for

taxes)

John Miller’s stopping place, August 1911. “Charlie Barbour was meeting Lou Penniston there in the hope of selling her horses and land in Pemberton.”

Barbour land ca 1906

Reba Barbour (born 1907)

ca 1919

John Miller, Charles Barbour and Alex Philip in August 1911

Mrs. Brokaw (of Seattle) with basket collection at store on the Barbour land, 1912

Charles Barbour and Dora May Barbour in 1917

Lundgren farm (formerly Barbour farm) in 1947

Charles and Dora Barbour

“Barbour’s cabin” at Tenquille, 1955

Mount Barbour

A. McLeod and Charles Barbour at the entrance to Crown Mine August 1924

According to provincial records Charles Barbour was involved in work on the Gold King and Dora May claims and on the nearby Li-Li-Kel property between 1923 and 1937.

Looking SE to Mount Barbour at left

Pick-axe found at Mount Barbour summit 2010

Allan Barbour with niece Reba at Barbour farm, Squamish, ca 1910

Vicinity of Barbour farm, 1913

Al Barbour, with Dora, Reba and Bebee and friend visiting, ca 1912

Bebee, Reba and uncle Al Barbour’s oxen on road to Gov’t wharf, Squamish, ca 1912

Kathleen Boyle and half-sister in Ireland,

1910

Eldest son Richard

dressed for Vancouver

trip, early 1920s

Al Barbour with Armstrong, McIntyre and Sellons completing a replacement Cheakamus River bridge, ca 1925

Al Barbour and Bill Wallace, Cleveland Avenue, Squamish, early 1920s

1931

Pemberton Trail, Cheakamus River,

Gill ranch and Barbour Bros. logging shows

1906-07

Barbour farm location

Barbour logging claims 1910s

1968

The flood carried away his boom and all the logs that were with it. This was quite a blow to Al and affected his mind somewhat.

– George Carson in interview, 1985

Kathleen Barbour, daughter Kay, Ken, Richard and Howie at Brackendale station 1930 leaving Squamish for Vancouver

Vancouver Harbour Authority lands, Burrard Inlet 1930s

Vancouver Harbour Authority lands, False Creek, 1930s

1936

Whenever anyone complimented Al Barbour on his ability with an axe he would say, “That’s nothing. You should have seen my brother Charles. When Charles puts in an undercut the chips from his axe would darken the sun.”

– George Carson in interview, 1985

Charles Barbour 1901

Al Barbour’s sister and niece Reba (Mrs. Johnston)

visiting in Kerrisdale,

1940s

August Jack Khahtsahlano and Mathias Joe at the Re-dedication of Stanley Park event, August 25, 1943

Ken and Dorothy

Barbour, Bowen Island

1945

Ken as ‘donkey

puncher’ for brother

Howie’s Sandy Island

Logging Co.,

Texada Island,

1950

Granville St., Christmas 1951

Ken Barbour 1980s

Official opening of Seaview Highway, Squamish, August 7, 1958

Wilma DeBeck;

George Ford, Bridge River

BoT Pres; Fred Ostman, Pemberton & District BoT;

Roy Penrose, Mt Currie

merchant & Pemberton &

District Legion; and Vancouver

Mayor Fred Hume

Pemberton cavalcade

Kathleen Barbour and August Jack Khahtsahlano, Cleveland Avenue, August 7, 1958

Break in the Road, by Sheila Gibbons, 1968