vessel should not be confused with the much larger Yukon River sternwheeler Selkirk. Selkirk was built by Alexander Watson, an experienced shipbuilder from...

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...

Okanagan: Rebuilding and Competition — The Kokanee and the International". Sternwheelers and Steam Tugs: An Illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific Railway's...

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...

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....

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...

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...

Columbia Valley to the headwaters of the river at Columbia Lake. Small sternwheelers like Marion played an important role in development by allowing miners...

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...

passenger service) SS Sicamous (luxury-class passenger service) SS Fairview (sternwheeler) SS Naramata (excursion and water-taxi) MV Lequime (Fintry Queen, excursion...

Lawrence River. The engines had been previously installed in other sternwheelers on the upper Columbia River, including the first Duchess, the second...

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...

Northwest, at 174, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966 Turner, Robert D., Sternwheelers and Steam Tugs -- An Illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific Railway's...

Lawrence River. The engines had been previously installed in two other sternwheelers on the upper Columbia River, specifically the first Duchess, and the...

vessel was involved in a collision in Puget Sound off Des Moines with the sternwheeler Hassalo. Otter sustained substantial damage but was successfully beached...

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...

the Pacific Northwest, at 57-58, Lewis & Dryden Publishing, Portland, OR 1895 Corning, Howard McKinley, Willamette Landings -- Ghost Towns of the Middle...

Marion (1888) Pert (1890) Annerly (1892) Hyak (1892) Gwendoline (1893) Selkirk (1895) Rustler (1896) Ruth (1896) J.D. Farrell (1897) North Star (1897) Ptarmigan...

Louis Pacquet from Portland, Oregon to build a comparable vessel, the sternwheeler North Star. Captain M. L. McCormack commanded Farrell on the vessel's...

boat was wrecked but her machinery was salvaged. Mills, Randall V., Sternwheelers up Columbia -- A Century of Steamboating in the Oregon Country, at 103...

Revelstoke for non-mining traffic. Shallow-draft sternwheelers frequented this important hub. From 1895, the Nakusp and Slocan Railway brought ore northwestward...

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...

houseboat and hotel. Her engines were removed and installed in a new sternwheeler, 'Klahowya. The vessel remained in houseboat use until 1914. McCurdy...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...