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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 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.
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 ]
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.
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 ...