S.S. Caledonia
S.S. Caledonia “In the early days the Hudson’s Bay Co. found it very difficult and expensive to supply their interior posts from Port Simpson, which at that time was the… Read More »S.S. Caledonia
Sternwheeler
S.S. Union
S.S. Union The S. S. Union was a sternwheeler, built in 1861 at Victoria, BC by James Trahey as Maggie Lauder for the Yale Navigation Co. which became insolvent and… Read More »S.S. Union
The Collins Overland Telegraph Company, 1866
The Collins Overland Telegraph Company, 1866 The following is an extract from a longer narrative history of early British Columbia by Charles Frederic Morison – telling of his life in… Read More »The Collins Overland Telegraph Company, 1866
How to get down the Skeena on one engine
How to get down the Skeena on one engine In his booklet, Whitewater Men of the Skeena Wiggs O’Neill tells the story of how the sternwheeler Caledonia got back to… Read More »How to get down the Skeena on one engine
Up the Skeena by Sternwheeler
Up the Skeena by Sternwheeler Re-published from Skeena-River of Destiny by R. Geddes Large This account of a trip up the Skeena River on a sternwheeler is from an article… Read More »Up the Skeena by Sternwheeler
Steamboat Fight on the Skeena
Steamboat Fight on the Skeena By Charles LeRoss In the early 1900’s the Hudson Bay Company and Robert Cunningham & Son were the two companies operating sternwheelers on the Skeena… Read More »Steamboat Fight on the Skeena
The Wreck of the Mount Royal
The Wreck of the Mount Royal reprinted from The Sun, July 13, 1907, published in Port Essington The Mount Royal is no more. She left Hazelton at 9 Saturday morning… Read More »The Wreck of the Mount Royal
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