• British Columbia Ferry Services Inc., operating as BC Ferries (BCF), is a former provincial Crown corporation, now operating as an independently managed...
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    taxis, up to the 358-car Spirit-class ferries. All of the vessels in use by BC Ferries are roll-on/roll-off car ferries. Most of the major vessels are based...
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  • following is a summary of some of the incidents that have occurred involving BC Ferries vessels and/or properties. In 1979, the Queen of Alberni ran aground in...
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    S-class ferries (also known as the Spirit class or Super ferries) are roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ferries operated by BC Ferries in British Columbia, Canada...
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    The PacifiCat class of fast ferries was operated from June 1999 to March 2000 by BC Ferries in British Columbia, Canada. Three PacifiCat catamarans -...
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    MV Queen of the North (category Ships of BC Ferries)
    of the North was a roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ferry built by AG Weser of Germany and operated by BC Ferries, which ran along an 18-hour route along the...
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    construction of three fast ferries by the Canadian provincial crown corporation BC Ferries under direction of the Executive Council of British Columbia, headed at...
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  • share of the new BC Ferries, which is also established in April 2003. Both of these companies are meant to reform the delivery of ferry transportation services...
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  • Some ferries in Sydney, Australia and British Columbia are also double-ended. In 2008, BC Ferries launched the first of the Coastal-class ferries, which...
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    Coastal-class ferries, also known as the "Super-C class" are three ferries owned and operated by BC Ferries of British Columbia, Canada and were built...
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    The V-class ferries, also known as the Victoria class, originally included seven ferries operated by BC Ferries built between 1962 and 1965. The V class...
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    The C-class ferries (also known as Cowichan class) are a class of five double-ended roll-on/roll-off ferries operated by BC Ferries in the Strait of Georgia...
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    vehicular ferry system in the world behind BC Ferries. The state ferries carried an average of 59,900 per weekday in the third quarter of 2024. The ferry system...
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    Tsawwassen is a ferry terminal and a major transportation facility in Delta, British Columbia, part of the BC Ferries system and Highway 17. Positioned...
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    K-class ferries (often referred to as "K-barges" due to their hull type and size) are a group of similarly designed ferries operated by both BC Ferries and...
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    Island Highway, the Island Rail Corridor, nearby Nanaimo Airport and BC Ferries. James Dunsmuir founded Ladysmith about 1898, a year after he built shipping...
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    the B.C. Stena Line, a subsidiary of the Swedish ferry operator. (In 1987 Stena purchased from BC Ferries Vancouver Island Princess, formerly the CPR's MV Princess...
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  • BC Immigrant Investment Fund BC Infrastructure Benefits (BCIB) BC Innovation Council (BCIC) BC Lottery Corporation BC Liquor Distribution Branch BC Liquor...
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    Gibsons (redirect from Gibsons, BC)
    from the rest of the lower mainland, and is primarily accessed by a BC Ferries ferry from Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver. The land currently known as Gibsons...
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    visited by tourists, the Sunshine Coast can be reached only by ferry (commonly BC Ferries) or by floatplane, as no access roads have been built around or...
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  • destroyer, a class of destroyers of the 1930s I-class ferry, a class of ferries operated by BC Ferries Istanbul-class frigate, a late 2010s class of indigenous...
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    Island is by ferry. BC Ferries, Washington State Ferries and Puget Sound Navigation Company (Black Ball Transport) operate the seven vehicle-ferry routes to...
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    terminal in the BC Ferries system without a traffic signal at its entrance or exit. Aerial view of Swartz Bay ferry terminal BC Ferries' MV Coastal Celebration...
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  • A number of ships operated by BC Ferries are not classed. They are either purchased second hand from other operators, are customized vessels with no class...
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    1960, by Premier W. A. C. Bennett, and was first flown on board the BC Ferries motor vessel Sidney (later Queen of Sidney). The four wavy white and three...
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    The Island-class ferries are ferries owned and operated by BC Ferries. Six vessels were built between 2019 and 2021 by Damen Shipyards Group, a Dutch company...
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    Nanaimo (redirect from Nanaimo, BC)
    Bay BC Ferries terminal in West Vancouver and the Duke Point terminal to the Tsawwassen ferry terminal in Tsawwassen. As the site of the main ferry terminal...
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    Horseshoe Bay is a major ferry terminal owned and operated by BC Ferries in British Columbia, Canada. Located in the community of Horseshoe Bay, a neighbourhood...
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    "People Power". www.crd.bc.ca. 23 March 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2023. "Coho ferry". "WSDOT – Ferries – Sidney B.C. Ferry Terminal". www.wsdot.wa.gov...
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    The Salish-class vessels are four intermediate-capacity ferries operated by BC Ferries and were built in 2016 at Remontowa Shipbuilding S.A. in Gdańsk...
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