Telegraph on the Skeena by Charles LeRoss Telegraph service on the Skeena came in several stages: 1865 – Collins Overland Telegraph Construction of the Collins Overland Telegraph began when a… Read More »Telegraph On The Skeena
Carlisle Cannery In 1895, Carlisle Cannery was the first to be built outside of the more protected waters of the mouth of the Skeena River. The fishing boundaries had been… Read More »Carlisle Cannery
S.S. Casca S. S. Casca was built in Victoria in 1898 by the Esquimalt Marine Railway Co. for the Casca Trading Trans. Co. With engines from Toronto and a boiler… Read More »S.S. Casca
FROM THE NORTH Victoria Daily Times, June 11, 1894 News Brought by the SteamerBoscowitz—Unprecedentedly High Water Six Indians Drowned at the Canyon—Politics, Fishing and Other News The correspondent of the… Read More »FROM THE NORTH
Census on the Skeena Taken from Bulletin No. 5 of the Census of Canada, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, February, 1891,GEORGE JOHNSON, Statistician. The Work of Enumerating “Few persons, especially in… Read More »Census on the Skeena
