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Faber, Jim, Steamer's Wake—Voyaging down the old marine highways of Puget Sound, British Columbia, and the Columbia River, Enetai Press, Seattle, WA 1985 ISBN 0-9615811-0-7; Gibbs, Jim, and Williamson, Joe, Maritime Memories of Puget Sound, Schiffer Publishing, West Chester PA 1987 ISBN 0-88740-044-2
Sold to the Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad in 1889 (C&PS 2nd 4). [13] Acquired by the WP&YR in 1898 as 1st 2. Baldwin steel boiler, new cylinders and larger smokebox installed; and renumbered to 52 in 1900. Powered the Taku Tram from 1932 to 1936. Retired in 1936 and stored at Atlin, British Columbia until 1964 when it was brought back to Skagway.
MacMillan Bloedel & Powell River Ltd. No. 1077 is a 2-6-2 "Prairie" type steam locomotive built in December 1923. The engine was retired in 1969 and was restored in 1985,making it her first restoration. In 1986, the engine participated at SteamExpo 86 in Vancouver,British Columbia. In 1990, the engine had a major overhaul,making it the second ...
SS Kootenay was a Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) wooden-hulled sternwheeler that serviced the Arrow Lakes in British Columbia, Canada from 1897 to 1919. [1] She was a large freight and passenger steamship and the first in a series of CPR riverboats built for the Arrow Lakes.
In 1904 the company built the steam tug Coutli, 99 GT, 71.4 ft (21.76 m) LOA, for use in log towing service for British Columbia Mills Co. [7] In 1905 the company placed Camosun into service. [ 8 ] Camosun , 1,369 GT, 192 ft (58.52 m) LOA, was a steel-hulled modern vessel built at Paisley, Scotland by the Bow, McLachlan concern. [ 8 ]
The ships of the British Columbia Coast Steamships came to be called "pocket liners" because they offered amenities like a great ocean liner, but on a smaller scale. [2] The CPR princesses were a coastal counterpart to CPR's "Empress" fleet of passenger liners which sailed on trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic routes.
Chilco and crew with Frank Swannell's workers (1910). Twelve paddlewheel steamboats plied the upper Fraser River in British Columbia from 1863 until 1921. They were used for a variety of purposes: working on railroad construction, delivering mail, promoting real estate in infant townsites and bringing settlers in to a new frontier.
The Yale Steam Navigation Company Ltd, British Columbia Designed by James Trahey. Launched from Laing & Scorgie's? (or "Laings Ways"?) shipyard in James Bay, Victoria. Blast from boiler explosion was so great that a 90-pound piece of the boiler was blown a quarter mile inland. Launched on Oct 15, 1860 James Bay, Victoria, BC