The Fort Fraser was a small sternwheeler owned by the Fort George Lumber and Transportation Company a partnership originally held by Nick Clarke and Russell...
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Fort Fraser (sternwheeler), a small ship named for the Canadian place This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Fort Fraser....
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first sternwheeler to navigate the treacherous Grand Canyon of the Fraser. The Fort George Lumber and Navigation Company then built the Fort Fraser which...
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(24 mi) Fort St. James - 84 km (52 mi) Prince George - 134 km (83 mi) Last Spike (Grand Trunk Pacific Railway) Fort Fraser (sternwheeler) "Fort Fraser". BC...
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The sternwheeler Chilcotin was built for the Soda Creek to Fort George route of the upper Fraser River. She was built by shipbuilder Donald McPhee for...
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Enterprise (1863) (redirect from Enterprise (sternwheeler))
was a passenger and freight sternwheeler that was built for service on the Soda Creek to Quesnel route on the upper Fraser River in British Columbia. It...
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Nechacco (redirect from Chilco (sternwheeler))
Nechacco sternwheeler was built for service on the Soda Creek to Fort George route on the upper Fraser River in British Columbia. She was owned by the Fort George...
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and William Cooke, started the Fort George Lumber and Navigation Company and arranged for the building of a sternwheeler for the community, the Nechacco...
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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...
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Kootenay Lake ferry (section Sternwheeler era)
Jun 2018. "Sternwheeler Companies of Kootenay Lake". www.touchstonesnelson.ca. "Chrononoly of Kootenay Lake". www.kootenay-lake.ca. "Fraser's Landing"....
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Soda Creek (category Populated places on the Fraser River)
Fort George from eastern Canada. Again the town's prosperity was due to being the natural sternwheeler terminus on the Fraser River as sternwheelers were...
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Robert C Hammond was the last sternwheeler built for service on the upper Fraser and Nechako Rivers. She was owned by the Fort George Lake and River Transportation...
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upper Fraser River in 1909, where he would pilot two sternwheelers before returning to the Skeena in 1911. In 1909, John Bonser was hired by the Fort George...
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the upper Fraser River where he would work on the sternwheeler BC Express until 1921. Captain John Bonser, now back from the upper Fraser, replaced Bucey...
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park on the Fraser River in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. The park was built in honor of the upper Fraser River sternwheelers that landed there...
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delivering their supplies up the Fraser River to Fort Hope. In 1859, he replaced the cumbersome barge with a sternwheeler named the Henrietta, built by James...
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Prince George, British Columbia (redirect from Fort George, British Columbia)
sternwheelers serviced the area, coming up on the Fraser River from Soda Creek docking at both South Fort George and Fort George Townsite. South Fort...
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Quesnel was a sternwheeler first launched in May 1909 at Quesnel, British Columbia to serve the Soda Creek to Fort George route of the upper Fraser River. Originally...
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was the first sternwheeler to navigate the treacherous canyon, assisted by ropes to the shores. Over the following years, sternwheelers were winched up...
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the Fraser River. Detailed articles cover the sternwheelers Skeena, Operator, and Conveyor and their roles on the Skeena River, and on the Fraser River...
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Tourism British Columbia[importance?] Chilcotin (sternwheeler), a paddle steamer from the upper Fraser River in British Columbia Canadian Forces Camp Chilcotin...
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The river sternwheeler Ramona operated from 1892 to 1908 on the Willamette River in Oregon, on the Stikine River running from Wrangell, Alaska into British...
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build a sternwheeler to work on the upper Fraser River, the Charlotte. The Charlotte ran from Soda Creek to Quesnel and was the only sternwheeler on the...
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The sternwheeler Charlotte was built in 1896 by Alexander Watson for the Northern British Columbia Navigation Company (NBCNC). The partners of the NBCNC...
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Barnard's Express (section The sternwheeler years)
BX, was a pioneer transportation company that served the Cariboo and Fraser-Fort George regions in British Columbia, Canada from 1861 until 1921. The...
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registered size was 120 tons, a measure of size, not weight. Surprise was a sternwheeler, and the wheel was turned by twin steam engines, horizontally mounted...
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the new sternwheeler, Nechacco which was able to take the crew up the Fraser to Fort George and onto the Nechako River all the way to Fraser Lake. In...
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was a sternwheeler built by Canadian Pacific Railway contractor Andrew Onderdonk at Spuzzum, British Columbia, Canada, and launched on the Fraser River...
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The Conveyor was one of five sternwheelers built for the use on the Skeena River by Foley, Welch and Stewart for construction work on the Grand Trunk...
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vessel, the sternwheeler North Star. Captain M. L. McCormack commanded Farrell on the vessel's first trip up the Kootenay River to Fort Steele in British...
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