Steamboats on the Yukon River played a role in the development of Alaska and Yukon. Access to the interior of Alaska and Yukon was hindered by large mountains...
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This is a list of steamboats on the Yukon River. Please see Steamboats of the Yukon River for historical context. White Pass Barges (102 vessels): 25 barges...
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The Yukon River is a major watercourse of northwestern North America. From its source in British Columbia, it flows through Canada's territory of Yukon...
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Steamboats played a major role in the 19th-century development of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, allowing practical large-scale transport...
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SS Klondike (category Steamboats of the Yukon River)
tourist attraction. SS Keno SS Nenana Steamboats of the Yukon River McLaughlin, Les, The day the Duke came to town, Yukon Nuggets, retrieved 10 August 2022...
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A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels. Steamboats sometimes use the prefix designation...
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D.R. Campbell (category Steamboats of the Yukon River)
sternwheel steamboat built in Seattle in 1898 which ran on the Yukon and tributary rivers in Alaska. D.R. Campbell was built at the shipyard of Robert Moran...
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innovations in canals, steamboats, and railroads. The steamboat and canal system revolutionized trade of the United States. As the steamboats gained popularity...
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SS Keno (category Steamboats of the Yukon River)
national park system. The SS Keno is berthed in a dry dock on the waterfront of the Yukon River in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. The vessel was constructed...
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Sternwheeler Columbian disaster (category Steamboats of the Yukon River)
characterized as the worst disaster in the Yukon River's history, the sternwheeler Columbian exploded and burned at Eagle Rock, Yukon, Canada, on 25 September...
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A. J. Goddard (category Steamboats of the Yukon River)
only example found of the smaller steamboats. The vessel was not ideally suited for the larger sections of the Yukon River; instead it had a short but successful...
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For the roster of White Pass boats, see List of steamboats on the Yukon River. For the roster of White Pass winter stages, see Overland Trail (Yukon). There...
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Many steamboats operated on the Columbia River and its tributaries, in the Pacific Northwest region of North America, from about 1850 to 1981. Major tributaries...
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Nenana (steamer) (category Steamboats of the Yukon River)
Park in Fairbanks, Alaska. Steamboats of the Yukon River List of National Historic Landmarks in Alaska National Register of Historic Places listings in...
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highway competition ended steamboat service on the Cowlitz in 1918. Steamboats of the Columbia River Timmen, Fritz, Blow for the Landing, at page 228, Caxton...
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Moran sternwheelers (category Steamboats of the Yukon River)
Seattle, Washington to run on the Yukon and tributary rivers in Alaska. The Moran sternwheelers were built to take advantage of the huge demand for inland shipping...
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lake Tagish language, the language spoken by the Tagish people Tagish, a steamboat in the list of steamboats on the Yukon River Carcross/Tagish First...
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Sternwheeler Jean Steamboat Steamboats of the Columbia River Steamboats of the Mississippi Steamboats of the upper Columbia and Kootenay Rivers Tourist sternwheelers...
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The Stewart River (Hän: Nä`chòo ndek) is a 533-kilometre (331 mi) tributary of Yukon River in the Yukon Territory of Canada. It originates in the Selwyn...
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Steamboats operated on Grays Harbor, a large coastal bay in the State of Washington, and on the Chehalis and Hoquiam rivers which flow into Grays Harbor...
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Steamboats operated on the Wenatchee Reach of the Columbia River from the late 1880s to 1915. The main base of operations was Wenatchee, Washington, located...
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Capital City (sternwheeler) (category Steamboats of the Yukon River)
the Yukon, and Alaska, Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC (2000) ISBN 0-920034-08-X Findlay, Jean Cammon and Paterson, Robin, Mosquito Fleet of Southern...
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Okanagan Lake (redirect from Steamboats of Lake Okanagan)
The lake is drained by the Okanagan River, which exits the lake's south end via a canal through the city of Penticton to Skaha Lake, whence the river...
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Columbia, Steamboats of Columbia River, Wenatchee Reach, Steamboats of the Cowlitz River, and Steamboats of the Willamette River expand on the topic Disposition...
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"Scottie" Morrison, Canadian ship builder; see List of steamboats on the Yukon River Scott Morrison Award of Minor Hockey Excellence, a Canadian award Search...
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see List of historical ships in British Columbia and List of steamboats on the Yukon River Search for "blair athol" or "blair atholl" on Wikipedia. Blair...
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Twelve paddlewheel steamboats plied the upper Fraser River in British Columbia from 1863 until 1921. They were used for a variety of purposes: working...
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Marsh Lake (category Yukon River)
Lake" before beginning on the Yukon River. A network of steamboats were soon developed and they began ferrying passengers to the rapids at Canyon City just...
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steamboats ran on the upper reaches of the Columbia and Kootenay in the Rocky Mountain Trench, in western North America. The circumstances of the rivers...
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Monte Cristo (sternwheeler) (category Steamboats of the Stikine River)
(entrepreneur) Steamboats of the Skeena River Steamboats of the Stikine River Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet Findlay and Paterson, Mosquito Fleet of South Puget...
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