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Quesnel (sternwheeler)
''Quesnel'' was a paddle steamer, sternwheeler first launched in May 1909 at Quesnel, British Columbia to serve the Soda Creek to Prince George, British Columbia, Fort George route of the upper Fraser River. Career Originally named ''City of Quesnel'', she was truly a home town product: owned by Telesphore Marion, a local merchant, built by local carpenter, John Strand and piloted by local man, Captain Donald Arthur Foster. However, on her launch day, it was discovered that she rode too low in the water and that her hull needed to be lengthened. Shipbuilder Donald McPhee was already in town, having just completed the construction of another sternwheeler, the ''Nechacco (sternwheeler), Nechacco''. McPhee was hired to do the work and ''City of Quesnel'' was rebuilt and relaunched under the name ''Quesnel'' on September 2. Among the first of the upper Fraser River vessels built during the era of rail construction, she would also be the last. She served the district for six seasons, u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Fort George
South Fort George is a suburb of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. Before the arrival of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1914, the Prince George area was known as Fort George and was a Lheidli T'enneh village and Hudson's Bay Company store. In 1909, two rival townsites were built and promoted. One was on the Fraser River and was called South Fort George, while the other was on the Nechako River and was called Central Fort George. Both of these townsites believed that the railway would build a station in their community, but in May 1912, the railway chose to purchase the First Nation's village instead. History Early pioneers In 1909, Nick Clark of the Northern Development Company purchased the South Fort George property from Alexander Hamilton and Joseph Thapage. Then the company subdivided the land into town lots which would be put up for sale in 1910. Meanwhile, Nick Clark built a sawmill and, with Russell Peden and William Cooke, started the Fort George Lumber and Nav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Great Eastern Railway
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Shipwrecks In The British Columbia Interior
A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water. It results from the event of ''shipwrecking'', which may be intentional or unintentional. There were approximately three million shipwrecks worldwide as of January 1999, according to Angela Croome, a science writer and author who specialized in the history of underwater archaeology (an estimate rapidly endorsed by UNESCO and other organizations). When a ship's crew has died or abandoned the ship, and the ship has remained adrift but unsunk, they are instead referred to as ''ghost ships''. Types Historic wrecks are attractive to maritime archaeologists because they preserve historical information: for example, studying the wreck of revealed information about seafaring, warfare, and life in the 16th century. Military wrecks, caused by a skirmish at sea, are studied to find details about the historic event; they reveal much about the battle that occur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddle Steamers Of British Columbia
A paddle is a handheld tool with an elongated handle and a flat, widened end (the ''blade'') used as a lever to apply force onto the bladed end. It most commonly describes a completely handheld tool used to propel a human-powered watercraft by pushing water in a direction opposite to the direction of travel (i.e. paddling). A paddle is different from an oar (which can be similar in shape and perform the same function via rowing) – an oar is attached to the watercraft via a fulcrum. The term "paddle" can also be used to describe objects of similar shapes or functions: *A rotating set of paddle boards known as a paddle wheel is used to propel a steamboat or paddle steamer. *In a number of racquet sports (e.g. ping-pong and paddle ball), a "paddle" or "bat" is a short, solid racket used to strike a ball. *A mixing paddle is a device used to stir or mix separate ingredients within a mixture. *A spanking paddle is used in corporal punishment, typically to forcefully hit someone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ships In British Columbia
The following is a list of vessels notable in the history of the Canadian province of British Columbia, including Spanish, Russian, American and other military vessels and all commercial vessels on inland waters as well as on saltwater routes up to the end of World War II (1945). A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y See also * Steamboats of the Upper Fraser River in British Columbia *Steamboats of the Skeena River *Steamboats of the Arrow Lakes * Steamboats of Lake Okanagan * Vessels of the Lakes Route * Graveyard of the Pacific *Inside Passage * Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet * American Bay References *''British Columbia Chronicle: Adventurers by Sea and Land'', Helen B. Akrigg and G.P.V. Akrigg, Discovery Press, Vancouver, 1975. ISBN *''British Columbia Chronicle: Gold and Colonists'', Helen B. Akrigg and G.P.V. Akrigg, Discovery Press, Vancouver, 1977. ISBN *''The No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steamboats Of The Upper Fraser River In British Columbia
Twelve paddle steamer, 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. They served the towns of Quesnel, British Columbia, Quesnel, Barkerville and Prince George, British Columbia, Fort George. Some only worked the Fraser from Soda Creek to Quesnel, while others went all the way to Tête Jaune Cache or took the Nechako River and served Fort Fraser, British Columbia, Fort Fraser and beyond. Pioneer sternwheelers - the Wright boats The first steamer used on the upper Fraser River was the Enterprise (1862), ''Enterprise''. She was built in 1862 near Alexandria, British Columbia, Alexandria by James Trahey for her owners Captain Thomas Wright and Gustavus Blin Wright, who also were her operators. She ran between Soda Creek and Quesnel from 1863 until 1871 when th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ford Motor Company
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BX (sternwheeler)
''BX'' was a sternwheeler and the first of two river steamers built for service on the upper Fraser River by the BC Express Company during the busy era of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway construction. The ''BX'' was built at Soda Creek in early 1910 by Alexander Watson Jr, of Victoria, who was one of British Columbia's foremost shipbuilders and the son of the man who had built the sternwheeler . The BC Express Company also hired Captain Owen Forrester Browne to be the master of the ''BX'' as he was the most experienced upper Fraser River pilot. Construction Captain Browne worked with Alexander Watson throughout the design and construction phases of the ''BX''. Watson purchased the ''BX's'' boiler, engines and other equipment from the Chicago Marine Ironworks Company, who were informed that the ''BX''s construction site at Soda Creek was away from the railway at Ashcroft and therefore the equipment would have to be hauled by horse drawn freighters for that distance. Chicago Marine d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BC Express (sternwheeler)
The BC Express was a stern wheel paddle steamer (sternwheeler) that operated on the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada, from 1912 to 1919. The ''BC Express'' was built for the BC Express Company by Alexander Watson, Jr to work on the upper Fraser River between Tête Jaune Cache and Fort George during the busy years of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway construction. The BC Express Company hired Captain Joseph Bucey, an experienced Skeena River pilot, to be her master. The route The upper Fraser River was navigable by sternwheeler between Soda Creek (start of navigation) and Tête Jaune Cache (head of navigation). From Soda Creek to Fort George there were two formidable obstacles, the Cottonwood Canyon and the Fort George Canyon. Between Fort George and Tête Jaune Cache, there were the Giscome Rapids, the Goat River Rapids and the fearsome Grand Canyon of the Fraser, which contained a powerful whirlpool. The Grand Trunk Pacific was being built from Winnipeg west and from Prince Rup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great War
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Canada
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Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was a historic Canadian transcontinental railway running from Fort William, Ontario (now Thunder Bay) to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, a Pacific coast port. East of Winnipeg the line continued as the National Transcontinental Railway (NTR), running across northern Ontario and Quebec, crossing the St. Lawrence River at Quebec City and ending at Moncton, New Brunswick. The Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) managed and operated the entire line. Largely constructed 1907–1914, the GTPR operated 1914–1919, prior to nationalization as the Canadian National Railway (CNR). Despite poor decision-making by the various levels of government and the railway management, the GTPR established local employment opportunities, a telegraph service, and freight, passenger and mail transportation. Proposal After the ousting of Edward Watkin, the GTR declined in 1870 and 1880 to build Canada's first transcontinental railway. Subsequently, the Canadian Pacific Railway ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
