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The Northern warehouse at Summit Lake.This was the northern terminus of the Giscome Portage, located on the other side of the great divide. The total distance across the portage was about 9 miles. This building was also built by Al Huble. The photo is taken ca. 1927
The Summit and McLeod Lake Stores and Warehouses
Al Huble and Ed Seebach had warehouses at both Summit Lake and McLeod Lake. These warehouses were used to store the goods that the two were freighting as well as goods that they sold. The warehouse at Summit Lake was built in 1912. Al notes the building of this warehouse in his diary in the spring of that year. This warehouse is pictured below. At this site were Cowart's Store, Hudson Bay Warehouse, Seebach and Huble Warehouse, and Cowart's Boat Building Yards
Sam Huble, Albert's son, stated that the warehouse was constructed of logs. Sam, also recalled that a store was also built at Summit Lake around the commencement of the First World War (1914). Furthermore, he believed that shortly after that, Al and Ed built a store at McLeod Lake. Ed lived at the McLeod Lake store where he ran the store until 1931 when he was badly burned and injured in a fire.
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End of Spring at Huble Homestead 1915All has been readied now for a summer of farming, freighting and trading.
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