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John Bonser (steamship Captain)
John Henry Bonser was a steamship captain from Oregon, United States and British Columbia, Canada. He piloted dozens of paddle steamer, sternwheelers over his 40-year-long career and pioneered many rivers in the Pacific Northwest. John was born in 1855 at Sauvie Island near the banks of the Columbia River in Oregon, the second son of James Halstead Bonser. Riverboating was a tradition in the Bonser family, as both John's father and grandfather had been rivermen on the Scioto River, Scioto and Ohio River, Ohio rivers. Oregon In 1871, when John was 16, he and his older brother, Thomas Albert Bonser, left home and began working on riverboats on the Cowlitz River, Cowlitz, Lewis River (Washington), Lewis and Columbia River, Columbia rivers, doing everything from piloting the crafts to cooking in the galley (kitchen), galleys. Then in 1880, Albert drowned while working as a deckhand on the sternwheeler ''Latona''. John considered quitting the river trade, but told his family that he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chilco
Chilko may refer to: * Chilko River *Tŝilhqox Biny Tŝilhqox Biny (Pronounced: Tsyle-koh Bee), known as Chilko Lake, is a 180 km2 lake in west-central British Columbia, at the head of the Chilko River on the Chilcotin Plateau. The lake is about 65 km long, with a southwest arm 10 ..., known as Chilko Lake. See also * Nechacco, a paddle steamer re-registered as "Chilco". {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hudson's Bay Company
The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; french: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in Canada. The company's namesake business division is Hudson's Bay, commonly referred to as The Bay ( in French). After incorporation by English royal charter in 1670, the company functioned as the ''de facto'' government in parts of North America for nearly 200 years until the HBC sold the land it owned (the entire Hudson Bay drainage basin, known as Rupert's Land) to Canada in 1869 as part of the Deed of Surrender, authorized by the Rupert's Land Act 1868. At its peak, the company controlled the fur trade throughout much of the English- and later British-controlled North America. By the mid-19th century, the company evolved into a mercantile business selling a wide variety of products from furs to fine homeware in a small number of sales shops (as opposed to trading posts) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telkwa, British Columbia
Telkwa is a village located along British Columbia Highway 16, nearly southeast of the town of Smithers and west of the city of Prince George, in northwest British Columbia, Canada. History Settlement in the area began around 1904 in a townsite known as Aldermere on the hill above Telkwa. Around 1907, people began to move down the hill to be closer to water supplies and the anticipated route of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. The name Telkwa is possibly an Indigenous term for "meeting of the waters" which appropriately describes the confluence of the Bulkley and Telkwa Rivers in town. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Telkwa had a population of 1,474 living in 562 of its 584 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 1,327. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Attractions The history of the town can be explored at the Telkwa Museum and on a tour of the historic former town sit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazelton At Kitselas Canyon
Hazelton may refer to: Places Canada * Hazelton, British Columbia * Hazelton Mountains, British Columbia United States * Hazelton, Idaho * Hazelton, Kansas * Hazelton, New Jersey * Hazelton, North Dakota * Hazelton (Youngstown, Ohio) * Hazelton, West Virginia * United States Penitentiary, Hazelton, a federal prison in West Virginia Other uses * ''Hazelton'' (sternwheeler), a British Columbian vessel * Hazelton Airlines, a former regional airline in Australia People with the given name * Hazelton Nicholl (1882–1956), British military officer * Hazelton Spencer (1757–1813), Canadian soldier, political figure, and judge People with the surname * Charlie Hazelton (1917–1985), Australian rugby league footballer * Donald F. Hazelton (died 2012), American politician from Florida * Edwin Hazelton (1861–1916), English cricketer * George Cochrane Hazelton (1832–1922), American politician from Wisconsin * Gerry Whiting Hazelton (1829–1920), American polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HBC Mount Royal
HBC or HbC may refer to: Companies and organizations * Halton Borough Council, England * Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, the state-owned radio and television broadcaster for Greece * Hokkaido Broadcasting, Japan * Houston Boychoir, Texas, US * HSBC Bank Canada * Hudson's Bay Company, Canada * Hummelstown Brownstone Company, US Sports * Harvard Boxing Club, a student organization at Harvard University, US * HB Chartres, a French association football club * Hyderabad Bicycling Club, India Science and technology * Hemoglobin C (HbC), an abnormal hemoglobin * Hexabenzocoronene, a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon * Hormonal birth control, a contraceptive * Human-based computation, a computer science technique * High breaking capacity, a type of electrical fuse * HBC, a grade of hexagonal boron nitride Other uses * Haebangchon, a neighborhood in Seoul, South Korea * Homebrew Channel, application for Nintendo Wii * Harvey's Bristol Cream * Head Ball Coach, nickname of retired colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Royal (sternwheeler)
''Mount Royal'' was a sternwheeler that worked on the Skeena River and Stikine Rivers in British Columbia, Canada, from 1902 until 1907. She was named after Lord Strathcona who was also known as Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal. ''Mount Royal'' was owned by the Hudson's Bay Company which also owned ''Caledonia'' and ''Strathcona''. These sternwheelers were used to serve the communities along the river before and during the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. During her six seasons of service, ''Mount Royal'' was piloted by Captain SB Johnson. ''Mount Royal'' was built to run against Hazelton (sternwheeler), ''Hazelton'' a privately owned sternwheeler that worked as a passenger and freight steamer for Robert Cunningham (entrepreneur), Robert Cunningham. Construction and launch ''Mount Royal'' was built by Alexander Watson in Victoria, British Columbia, Victoria at Albion Iron Works (VMD). Watson designed her specifically for navigating the treacherous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazelton (sternwheeler)
''Hazelton'' was a sternwheeler that worked on the Skeena River in British Columbia, Canada from 1901 until 1912. Her first owner was Robert Cunningham who ran a freighting business that served the communities along the Skeena River. ''Hazelton'' was named after one of the communities she served, Hazelton, which was one of the oldest towns in Northern British Columbia, having been founded in 1866 and was the main staging area for the Omineca Gold Rush. Robert Cunningham had ''Hazelton'' built to run against the sternwheelers of the Hudson's Bay Company, ''Caledonia'' and ''Strathcona''. To design and pilot her, Cunningham hired veteran white-water skipper John Bonser, who went down to Victoria in the winter of 1900 to help in the details of her design and construction. The rivalry begins ''Hazelton'' was launched in 1901 and soon proved that she was superior to the rival HBC vessels. In her first season, she made 13 trips to Hazelton, setting a new speed record by completing t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Cunningham (entrepreneur)
Robert Cunningham (1837–1905) was a British-Canadian lay missionary turned entrepreneur who founded the town of Port Essington, British Columbia. He was born January 1, 1837, in Dungannon, Ireland (one source, Large, says "Tullyvally, Ireland"), to a Protestant ( Anglican) family. In 1862, at the age of twenty-five, he sailed to Canada with the Anglican Church Missionary Society to work as a lay assistant to the Anglican lay missionary William Duncan at the Tsimshian community of Metlakatla, B.C. Missionary Work Shortly after his arrival at Metlakatla Robert Cunningham was assigned to assist the missionary R. Arthur Doolan, himself newly arrived from England, in founding a new mission among the Nisga'a. Together with a Tsimshian interpreter named Robert Dundas they opened a mission among the villages on the lower Nass River in July 1864. When it soon came to light that Cunningham had fathered a child with a young Tsimshian student of Duncan's named Elizabeth Ryan Doolan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vancouver, British Columbia
Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2.6million in 2021, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Greater Vancouver, along with the Fraser Valley, comprises the Lower Mainland with a regional population of over 3 million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over 5,700 people per square kilometre, and fourth highest in North America (after New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City). Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 49.3 percent of its residents are not native English speakers, 47.8 percent are native speakers of neither English nor French, and 54.5 percent of residents belong to visible minority groups. It has been consistently ranke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sahara Desert
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Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls () is a group of three waterfalls at the southern end of Niagara Gorge, spanning the border between the province of Ontario in Canada and the state of New York in the United States. The largest of the three is Horseshoe Falls, which straddles the international border of the two countries. It is also known as the Canadian Falls. The smaller American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls lie within the United States. Bridal Veil Falls is separated from Horseshoe Falls by Goat Island and from American Falls by Luna Island, with both islands situated in New York. Formed by the Niagara River, which drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, the combined falls have the highest flow rate of any waterfall in North America that has a vertical drop of more than . During peak daytime tourist hours, more than of water goes over the crest of the falls every minute. Horseshoe Falls is the most powerful waterfall in North America, as measured by flow rate. Niagara Falls is famed for i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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