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    vessel should not be confused with the much larger Yukon River sternwheeler Selkirk. Selkirk was built by Alexander Watson, an experienced shipbuilder from...
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  • hockey teams in Manitoba Selkirk (sternwheeler 1895) HMS Selkirk (J18) Selkirk hurdle, a freight train route in New York Selkirk locomotive, a type of steam...
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    Okanagan: Rebuilding and Competition — The Kokanee and the International". Sternwheelers and Steam Tugs: An Illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific Railway's...
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    Skeena River from the coast to Hazelton from 1864 to 1912. The first sternwheeler to arrive on the Skeena River was the Union, which was owned and operated...
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    wharf at Alder Street, in Portland, the Stark Street Ferry ran into the sternwheeler. Elwood's fantail was badly damaged, as was the tackle on the ferry....
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    community in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. In the Selkirk Mountains, at the confluence of the Kootenay and Columbia Rivers, it is...
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    The Moyie is a paddle steamer sternwheeler that operated on Kootenay Lake in British Columbia from 1898 until 1957. After her nearly sixty years of service...
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    Columbia Valley to the headwaters of the river at Columbia Lake. Small sternwheelers like Marion played an important role in development by allowing miners...
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    wrecked in Jennings Canyon in May 1897 in a collision with Ruth, another sternwheeler of the Upper Columbia Navigation & Tramway Co. Both vessels were bound...
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    passenger service) SS Sicamous (luxury-class passenger service) SS Fairview (sternwheeler) SS Naramata (excursion and water-taxi) MV Lequime (Fintry Queen, excursion...
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    Lawrence River. The engines had been previously installed in other sternwheelers on the upper Columbia River, including the first Duchess, the second...
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    Northwest, at 174, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966 Turner, Robert D., Sternwheelers and Steam Tugs -- An Illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific Railway's...
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    Louis Pacquet from Portland, Oregon to build a comparable vessel, the sternwheeler North Star. Captain M. L. McCormack commanded Farrell on the vessel's...
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    Kootenay river were made hazardous by the Jennings Canyon. Of the six sternwheelers that were employed on the upper Kootenay River, only Annerly was not...
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    Lawrence River. The engines had been previously installed in two other sternwheelers on the upper Columbia River, specifically the first Duchess, and the...
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  • vessel was involved in a collision in Puget Sound off Des Moines with the sternwheeler Hassalo. Otter sustained substantial damage but was successfully beached...
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    SS Sicamous is a large, four-decked sternwheeler commissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and was built by the Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding...
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    the Pacific Northwest, at 57-58, Lewis & Dryden Publishing, Portland, OR 1895 Corning, Howard McKinley, Willamette Landings -- Ghost Towns of the Middle...
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    Marion (1888) Pert (1890) Annerly (1892) Hyak (1892) Gwendoline (1893) Selkirk (1895) Rustler (1896) Ruth (1896) J.D. Farrell (1897) North Star (1897) Ptarmigan...
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    boat was wrecked but her machinery was salvaged. Mills, Randall V., Sternwheelers up Columbia -- A Century of Steamboating in the Oregon Country, at 103...
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  • Revelstoke for non-mining traffic. Shallow-draft sternwheelers frequented this important hub. From 1895, the Nakusp and Slocan Railway brought ore northwestward...
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    Portland, Oregon, for Capt. Frank P. Armstrong (1859-1923). Armstrong ran sternwheelers on the Kootenay and Columbia rivers under the name of the Upper Columbia...
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    houseboat and hotel. Her engines were removed and installed in a new sternwheeler, 'Klahowya. The vessel remained in houseboat use until 1914. McCurdy...
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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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    Lawrence and Great Lakes all the way to the Pacific. Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk (20 June 1771 – 8 April 1820) was a Scottish peer. He was a Scottish philanthropist...
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    Oregon, United States and British Columbia, Canada. He piloted dozens of sternwheelers over his 40-year-long career and pioneered many rivers in the Pacific...
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  • Sternwheeler Dawson City, Yukon 64°03′48″N 139°26′06″W / 64.0632°N 139.435°W / 64.0632; -139.435 (SS Keno) SS Klondike 1937 Canada Sternwheeler Whitehorse...
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    operations had one thing in common, the need for shallow draft therefore sternwheelers were the choice of ship. Tugs and barges handled railway equipment including...
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  • Diego, CA) United States (San Diego, CA) 52 ft (16 m) Sicamous 1914 Sternwheeler Canada (Port Arthur, Ontario) Canada (Penticton, BC) 200.5 ft (61.1 m)...
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    one of Troup's few design failures. On May 26, 1888, Troup took the sternwheeler Hassalo through the Cascades of the Columbia, covering the six miles...
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