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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 ...
Hunt arrived in Victoria in the middle of August, 1858. [16] Because there was a shortage of British vessels, the colonial government at Victoria had decided to license American steamers to move the resultant gold rush traffic up the river. [10] and ran for a short time on the New Westminster route.
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.
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
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 Kootenay Central Railway (KCR) was a CP subsidiary. The northward advance of the rail head from Colvalli [59] was near Fort Steele in August 1914. [60] That November, the last spike was driven near the north end of Columbia Lake. [61] Through train service commenced in January 1915. [62] In 1931, the twice weekly service was reduced to once ...
Marion somewhere in inland British Columbia ca 1890. The first steamboat on the route was the Forty-Nine, built to service a brief gold rush on the Big Bend of the Columbia River, attempting the run from Marcus, Washington Territory, just above Kettle Falls, to La Porte, one of the main boomtowns of the rush, which was sited at the foot of the infamous and also impassable Dalles des Morts or ...
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.