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Wilson G. Hunt was a steamboat that ran in the early days of steam navigation on Puget Sound and Sacramento, Fraser, and Columbia Rivers. She was generally known as the Hunt during her years of operation.
The Columbia River begins at Columbia Lake, flows north in the trench through the Columbia Valley to Windermere Lake to Golden, British Columbia.The Kootenay River flows south from the Rocky Mountains, then west into the Rocky Mountain Trench, coming within just over a mile (1.6 km) from Columbia Lake, at a point called Canal Flats, where a shipping canal was built in 1889.
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 ...
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.
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.
Victoria, British Columbia John H. Todd 716 147 feet (44.8 m) Originally owned by Canadian Development Co. Acquired by WP&YR in 1901. Last used in 1927. Placed as riprap in Yukon River at Whitehorse, Yukon in 1931. Machinery recovered from river in 1997. - Most likely, named for the British Columbia, Canada gold rushes of 1850 and 1861. [8] 1st ...
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