This blog contains notes, anecdotes and adventures related to Edmonton's early industries:
Logging on N. Saskatchewan River
Mining
Meatpacking
Brickmaking
LOGGING ALONG N. SASKATCHEWAN RIVER
logging camps upstream cut down trees and moved logs to river or its tributaries,
then loggers conducted log drives to get logs down to lumberyards in Edmonton
lumberyards
John Walter's sawmill at Walterdale
samill at Cloverdale
sawmill at Rossdale
colourful people
fights
near-drownings
here's some assorted notes:
Upas (a steamboat) made trip up river to near Fraser's timber limits and near Goose Encampment EB, July 5, 1894
EB, July 5, 1894
the Big Eddy almost drowned several loggers working for Fraser & Co.
the Big Eddy is three miles downstream from Buck Creek, about 100 miles upstream from Edmonton
eddy forms a regular whirlpool at intervals of about half an hour, and when the whirlpool is forming, is very dangerous.
Morris Smeltzer one of loggers
they used log canoe to attempt rescue. that also suffered
a different Big Eddy on Sask. River in Saskatchewan
55 kms from village of Cumberland house, Saskatchewan
at Pine bluff?
in Cumberland house delta?
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Mining
Twin City Mine in Mill Creek ravine near 90th Avenue
(its location is mentioned in the Montopedia blog Historic walk through Mill Creek.
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Meatpacking
Gallagher in Cloverdale
Gainers
(cows occasionally got loose and had to be rounded up in the Mill Creek ravine.
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Brickmaking
see Montopedia blog on Cloverdale and Peter Anderson
Camel Humps
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