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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 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 ...
Pitt River Ferry: Crossed the Pitt River between Pitt Meadows and what is now Port Coquitlam. Vessel Unknown Conventional - Gasoline Engine [23] Vehicle capacity not known. Passenger capacity not known. Unknown. George Mouldey with subsidies from the Government of British Columbia. [24] [25] Ran from 27 September 1902 [26] until March 1915. [27]
View of Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal (British Columbia, Canada) for BC Ferries. BC Ferries has the largest fleet of vehicle ferry vessels in the world. There are at least 45 vessels, ranging from small passenger-only water taxis, up to the 358-car Spirit-class ferries. All of the vessels in use by BC Ferries are roll-on/roll-off car ferries. Most ...
MV Queen of Oak Bay is a double-ended C-class roll-on/roll-off ferry in the BC Ferries fleet, launched in 1981 at Victoria, British Columbia. The 139.29-metre (457 ft) long, 6,969-ton vessel has a capacity for 362 cars and over 1,500 passengers and crew.
Crown corporations in BC are public-sector organizations established and funded by the Government of British Columbia to provide specialized goods and services to citizens. [1] They operate at varying levels of government control, depending on how they are defined, funded, and the kinds of services they provide.
The Sidney class consisted of two roll-on/roll-off ferries, Queen of Sidney and Queen of Tsawwassen, built for the British Columbia Ferry Corporation in service from 1960 to 2008. The design for the ships was based on the ferry MV Coho with changes made to accommodate loading of vehicles through the bow of the vessel. Both vessels serviced ...
BC Ferries (4 C, 6 P) This page was last edited on 27 September 2019, at 11:16 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...