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Upper Arrow Lake Ferry: Crosses Upper Arrow Lake between Shelter Bay and Galena Bay at the junction of BC highways 23 and 31. M.V. Columbia: Conventional 80 250 20 minutes Waterbridge Ferries Incorporated [15] Usk Reaction Ferry: Crosses the Skeena River between north and south Usk, off BC Highway 16. Vessel Unknown Reaction: 2 12 5-7 minutes
British Columbia Ferry Services Inc., operating as BC Ferries (BCF), is a former provincial Crown corporation, now operating as an independently managed, publicly owned Canadian company. BC Ferries provides all major passenger and vehicle ferry services for coastal and island communities in the Canadian province of British Columbia .
The Kootenay Lake ferry is a ferry across Kootenay Lake in southeastern British Columbia, which operates between Balfour, on the west side of the lake, and Kootenay Bay, on the east side. The MV Osprey 2000 and the MV Balfour are the two vessels used. [1] The route is the world's longest free scenic ferry which carries vehicles. [2]
On July 31, 2009, the Albion Ferry was shut down after the opening of the Golden Ears Bridge. The ferry had connected Maple Ridge and Langley via the Fraser River since 1957. Kulleet and Klatawa had been put into service in the 1980s. The two Albion ferries were sold for $400,000 – less than half of the original asking price of $1.1 million.
The B.C. Ferry Authority is established in April 2003 by the government of British Columbia. [1] It is an independent, no-share capital corporation that holds the single issued voting share [2] of the new BC Ferries, which is also established in April 2003. Both of these companies are meant to reform the delivery of ferry transportation ...
BC Ferries ordered three ferries from Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG), Germany. Coastal Renaissance was the first laid down, on January 2, 2007, with the yard number 733. The ferry was launched on April 19, 2007, and was completed on October 27, 2007. [1] [4] The name Coastal Renaissance was chosen by BC Ferries to represent the ...
The Harrop Ferry is a cable ferry at Harrop Narrows [1] on the west arm of Kootenay Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The crossing, off BC Highway 3A , is by road about 27 kilometres (17 mi) northeast of Nelson and 7 kilometres (4 mi) west of Balfour .
MV Nimpkish is an N-class ferry formerly owned by BC Ferries. It is 33.93 metres (111.3 ft) long, holds 12 vehicles and 95 passengers, and its maximum speed is 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph). [ 1 ] Nimpkish entered service with the Ministry of Transportation's Salt Water division in 1973, and was built in Vancouver to serve the inter-island routes.