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Hullo, officially the Vancouver Island Ferry Company, is a privately owned passenger ferry service in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It operates up to fourteen daily sailings between downtown Vancouver and downtown Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. Each one-way trip takes around 75 minutes.
] This growth in business spurred the creation of a new ferry, the North Vancouver Ferry No. 5, in 1941. The MV Crosline was also leased from Washington to meet demand. According to James Barr, 1943 was the busiest year that North Vancouver Ferries had, ferrying over 7 million passengers across the Burrard Inlet .
Free ferry trips for seniors were suspended from April 2014 [8] to April 2018. [9] In the fall of 2014, BC Ferries announced the addition of three new Intermediate-class ferries to phase out Queen of Burnaby and Queen of Nanaimo. [10] [11] These three vessels were to be named the Salish class; Salish Orca, Salish Eagle and Salish Raven.
Several passenger-only ferries have operated from Vancouver to destinations on Vancouver Island, mainly by private companies. V2V Vacations launched a service from Vancouver to Victoria in 2017 and operated it until shutting down in 2020. [44] A service connecting Vancouver to Nanaimo, named Hullo, is scheduled to begin operating in August 2023 ...
Formerly, the Queen of Vancouver ran if this ferry was not running. 1 Malaspina Sky: I: 2008: 112: 450: Entered service in February 2009. Vessel was formerly known as Island Sky, and was renamed to avoid confusion with the Island-class ferries as part of BC Ferries fleet standardization initiative, on October 24, 2019. [5] 7 Queen of Cumberland ...
Departure Bay is a major ferry terminal in Nanaimo, British Columbia, owned and operated by BC Ferries that provides ferry service across the Strait of Georgia to Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver. The terminal is located at the southern end of Departure Bay .
The ferry terminal is located at Duke Point in Nanaimo and is the only major terminal in the BC Ferries system without a public transit connection. [ 2 ] The terminal was built in 1997 for $42 million (equivalent to $67.88 million in 2022) to divert commercial vehicle traffic away from BC Ferries' other main Nanaimo terminal in the heart of the ...
Passenger capacity not known. Unknown Unknown [17] West Creston Ferry/Reclamation Farm Ferry: Crossed the Kootenay River between the Lower Kootenay 1C Reserve and West Creston. Unknown Unknown 10 Cars in later years. [29] Passenger capacity not known. Unknown Government of British Columbia: Possibly the same ferry. [17]