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R.P. Rithet (sternwheeler)
''R.P. Rithet'' was a sternwheel steamer that operated in British Columbia from 1882 to 1917. The common name for this vessel was the ''Rithet''. After 1909 this vessel was known as the ''Baramba''. Design and construction ''R.P.Rithet'' was designed to replace the recently burned ''Elizabeth J. Irving''. The engines from ''Elizabeth J. Irving'' were salvaged and installed in the ''Rithet'', which was intended to the most luxurious riverboat ever launched up to that time in British Columbia. The vessel was built by master shipwright Alexander Watson for Captain (sometimes called "Commodore") John Irving, one of the most famous steamboat captains in the history of British Columbia. The Irving family was strongly connected with development on the east side of Portland, Oregon, and it was reported in the contemporary press that they had sold some of their land in East Portland for $65,000, some of which may have been applied to pay for the new steamer. The new vessel was na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yale, British Columbia
Yale is an unincorporated town in the Canadian province of British Columbia, which grew in importance during the gold rush era. Located on the Fraser River, it is generally considered to be on the dividing line between the Coast and the Interior regions of the British Columbia Mainland. Immediately north of the town, the Fraser Canyon begins and the river is generally considered unnavigable past this point. Rough water is common on the Fraser anywhere upstream from Chilliwack and even more so above Hope, about south of Yale. However, steamers could make it to Yale, good pilots and water conditions permitting, and the town had a busy dockside life as well as a variety of bars, restaurants, hotels, saloons and various services. Its maximum population during the gold rush era was in the 15,000 range. More generally, it housed 5,000-8,000. The higher figure was counted at the time of evacuation of the Canyon during the Fraser Canyon War of 1858. Most of today's population are membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Pacific Navigation Company
The Canadian Pacific Navigation Company was an early steamship company that operated steamships on the coast of British Columbia and the Inside Passage of southeast Alaska. The company was founded in 1883 by John Irving (1854-1936), a prominent steamboat man, businessman, and politician of early British Columbia. In 1901 the company was purchased by the Canadian Pacific Railway, becoming the steamship division of the CPR. Ships The company owned a variety of vessels, including the sternwheeler ''Princess Louise'', ''R.P. Rithet'', the old sidewheelers ''Wilson G. Hunt'' and ''Yosemite'', and the coastal steamer ''Willapa''. Loss of SS ''Islander'' Another ship owned by the company was the steamship ''Islander'', which went down in August 1901. ''Islander'' was a steel twin-screw steamer built for the Inside passage to Alaska and favoured by wealthy travelers. On the morning of August 15, 1901, the ship struck a submerged iceberg and went down off the south end of Douglas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Victoria (steamship)
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Vancouver, British Columbia
Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, 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, Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2.6million in 2021, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada#List, third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Greater Vancouver, along with the Fraser Valley Regional District, 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 Ethnic origins of people in Canada, ethnically and Languages of Canada, linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 49.3 percent of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salmon
Salmon () is the common name for several list of commercially important fish species, commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the family (biology), family Salmonidae, which are native to tributary, tributaries of the North Atlantic (genus ''Salmo'') and North Pacific (genus ''Oncorhynchus'') basin. Other closely related fish in the same family include trout, Salvelinus, char, Thymallus, grayling, Freshwater whitefish, whitefish, lenok and Hucho, taimen. Salmon are typically fish migration, anadromous: they hatch in the gravel stream bed, beds of shallow fresh water streams, migrate to the ocean as adults and live like sea fish, then return to fresh water to reproduce. However, populations of several species are restricted to fresh water throughout their lives. Folklore has it that the fish return to the exact spot where they hatched to spawn (biology), spawn, and tracking studies have shown this to be mostly true. A portion of a returning salmon run ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulf Islands
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James W
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William Irving (sternwheeler) , American businessman and politician
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William Irving may refer to: * William Irving (British politician) (1892–1967), British Labour Co-operative MP 1945–1955 * William Irving (steamship captain) (1816–1872), steamship captain from Scotland, active in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia * William Irving (American politician) (1766–1821), United States Representative from New York * William Irving (actor) (1893–1943), American actor * William Irving (architect) (1830–1883), a Canadian architect known for his late 19th century buildings in Toronto See also *William Irvine (other) *William Irwin (other) *William Irvin (other) *William Irving Shuman William Irving Shuman (1882–1958) was an American businessman, banker and political activist during the late 19th and early 20th century. A longtime member of the Democratic Party in Moultrie County, Illinois, he was an Illinois delegate to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enterprise (1861)
''Enterprise'' was a steamship operated on the Fraser River system, from 1861 until her loss in 1885. She should not be confused with several similar vessels of the same name that also operated on the Fraser, around the same time, including the ''Enterprise'' of 1855 and ''Enterprise'' of 1863. She was built in San Francisco in 1861, and first operated from Victoria, British Columbia to the lower Fraser River. She made her first voyage after purchase by the Hudson's Bay Company in April 1862. In 1883 she was sold to the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, and, she was lost on July 28, 1885, after a collision with the ''R.P. Rithet''. References {{Reflist, refs= {{cite news , url = https://www.victoriaharbourhistory.com/transportation/sea-transportation/wrecks/1918-princess-sophia/ , title = 1885 Enterprise: Princess Sophia's loss is the worst disaster in the Pacific Northwest , work = Victoria Harbour History , author = , date ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wreck Of Enterprise (sidewheeler) Near Victoria BC, July 1885
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Yosemite (sidewheeler)
The steamboat ''Yosemite'' operated for almost fifty years on San Francisco Bay, the Sacramento River, inland coastal waters and the lower Fraser River in British Columbia, and Puget Sound. Design ''Yosemite'' was built in 1862 at the yard of John Gunder North, in San Francisco. For a vessel built entirely of wood, ''Yosemite'' was enormous. She was 282' long after her rebuild following the 1865 boiler explosion, when 30' was added to her length.,Newell, Gordon R., ''Ships of the Inland Sea'', at 89-91, Bindford and Mort, Portland, OR (2nd Ed. 1960) 35' beam (80' over the paddle guards) and 13' depth of hold, and rated at 1525 tons. She was a side-wheel steamer built entirely of wood with a single-cylinder "walking-beam" steam engine with a 57" bore and a 122" stroke.Turner, Robert D., ''Pacific Princesses – An Illustrated History of Canadian Pacific Railway's Princess Fleet on the Pacific Northwest Coast'', at 11, 14-15, 23-24, 39-40, 92, 233, Sono Nis Press, Victoria, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teaser (steamboat)
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