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SS Trail
SS ''Trail'' was a sternwheeler used for freight on the Columbia River and Arrow Lakes in British Columbia, Canada. Built to replace SS ''Kootenai'', ''Trail'' began service on June 11, 1896 and operated until she burned down in 1900. Construction By 1896, the earlier sternwheeler ''Kootenai'' had aged and was in need of a replacement. The new steamer was built at the shipyard in Nakusp, British Columbia by J. McCain and was named ''Trail''. Her engines likely came from ''Kootenai'', but her boiler was probably new, as the local newspaper, ''The Miner'', reported on April 11 that SS ''Nakusp'' had brought one down from Arrowhead, British Columbia.Turner, Robert D. (1998). ''Sternwheelers and Steam Tugs''. Winlaw, British Columbia: Sono Nis Press. ''Trail'' was an important addition to the Columbia River fleet due to heavy traffic from mining and railway development and at 633 gross tons, she was the largest vessel in the fleet, alongside ''Nakusp''. ''Trail'' was designed as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James William Troup
James William Troup (February 5, 1855 – November 30, 1931) was an American steamship captain, Canadian Pacific Railway administrator and shipping pioneer. Family Captain James William Troup was born in Portland, Oregon in February, 1855.Newell, Gordon R., ed., ''H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest'', 3, 8, 11, 15, 28, 50, 57, 152, 191, 266, 339, 382, 414, 492, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966Hacking, Norman R. and Lamb, Kaye W., ''The Princess Story – A Century and a Half of West Coast Shipping'', at 185, 186, Mitchell Press, Vancouver, BC 1974 He was the son of Capt. Willam H. Troup, a prominent early steamboatman in the Pacific Northwest. His maternal grandfather was sailing ship Capt. John Turnball. James had a younger brother, Claud Troup (1865–1896) who was also an accomplished steamboat captain. James Troup also had a son, Roy Troup, who became a steamboat captain. Early career Together with his father, Captain Troup built many of the early steambo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steamboats Of The Arrow Lakes
The era of steamboats on the Arrow Lakes and adjoining reaches of the Columbia River is long-gone but was an important part of the history of the West Kootenay and Columbia Country regions of British Columbia Canada. The Arrow LakesThe lakes are now merged into one lake by the construction of a hydroelectric dam. are formed by the Columbia River in southeastern British Columbia. Steamboats were employed on both sides of the border in the upper reaches of the Columbia, linking port towns on either side of the border, and sometimes boats would be built in one country and operated in the other. Tributaries of the Columbia include the Kootenay River which rises in Canada, then flows south into the United States, then bends north again back into Canada, where it widens into Kootenay Lake. As with the Arrow Lakes, steamboats once operated on the Kootenay River and Kootenay Lake. Route The Arrow Lakes route was accessible from the north, by a rail connection with the Canadian Pacific Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robson, British Columbia
Robson is an unincorporated community in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The former steamboat landing and railway terminal is on the northeast side of the Columbia River. The residential area is off Broadwater Road, within the northwest part of Greater Castlegar. Established In 1888, civil servant Gilbert Malcolm Sproat set aside a half-section of land for a government reserve. The water deeper, and high banks protecting the shore from flooding, the location was about upstream from the Norns (formerly Pass) Creek delta. Bordering in 1890, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) acquired around 70 acres about from the creek. The location was named after Premier John Robson for his support of CP endeavours. In 1891, the CP's Columbia and Kootenay Railway (C&K) reached its new western terminal. C&K opened a depot, installed a turntable, and ran tracks along the new steamboat dock. Flourished Sproat's Landing diminished and Robson flourished. For overnight stay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boundary, British Columbia
Stikine, also known formerly as Boundary, is an unincorporated locality and former customs post on the Stikine River, located on the Canadian side of the British Columbia-Alaska boundary on the Stikine River's west (right) bank. The customs post was seasonal and operated in the summer months only. The name Boundary was in use from 1930 to 1964, with designation "Customs Post" changed in 1955 to "locality". See also *Stikine Country *Stikine Gold Rush *Stikine Region *Fort Stikine *Choquette Hot Springs Provincial Park *Great Glacier Provincial Park *Boundary Falls, British Columbia Boundary Falls is a locality in the Boundary Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, south of the city of Greenwood and west of the city of Grand Forks, British Columbia. The small community, which consists of only a few small buil ... (also known as Boundary) References * * External linksImage of "Boundary House" on Panoramio.com Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Illecillewaet
SS ''Illecillewaet'' was a wooden-hulled stern wheeler that operated on the Arrow Lakes in British Columbia, Canada from 1892 to 1902.Turner, Robert D. (1998). ''Sternwheelers and Steam Tugs''. Winlaw, British Columbia: Sono Nis Press. She was built as a replacement for SS Dispatch on the Columbia River and although she was not attractive, she served as a functional freight ship until she was converted into a barge and retired in 1902."Steamships Of The Columbia." Steamships Of The Columbia. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 July 2015. Commission ''Illecillewaet'' was commissioned soon after Captain James William Troup took over as general manager of the Columbia and Kootenay Steam Navigation Company (C&KSN) in 1892. She was built at the shipyard in Revelstoke, British Columbia to replace ''Dispatch'', which had never been successful because her service was hindered during low water and when the water froze in winter. ''Illecillewaet'' was designed to "float on dew" with her shallow draft to e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minto (sternwheeler)
''Minto'' was a sternwheel steamboat that ran on the Arrow Lakes in British Columbia from 1898 to 1954. In those years of service, ''Minto'' had steamed over 3.2 million kilometers serving the small communities on Arrow Lakes. ''Minto'' and her sister ''Moyie'' (which ran on Kootenay Lake) were the last sternwheelers to run in regularly scheduled passenger service in the Pacific Northwest. The "Minto" class of sailing dinghies is named after this vessel. Design and Construction Manufactured for the Stikine River service ''Minto'' was one of three steamboats built of steel and wood that were intended for service on the Stikine River during the Klondike gold rush. The other vessels were ''Moyie'' and ''Tyrrell''.There were about nine other sternwheelers constructed by C.P.R. for the Stikine River service, but ''Minto'', ''Moyie'' and ''Tyrrell'' were the only ones assembled from parts manufactured in eastern Canada. They were almost identical to each other but differed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stikine River
The Stikine River is a major river in northern British Columbia (BC), Canada and southeastern Alaska in the United States. It drains a large, remote upland area known as the Stikine Country east of the Coast Mountains. Flowing west and south for , it empties into various straits of the Inside Passage near Wrangell, Alaska. About 90 percent of the river's length and 95 percent of its drainage basin are in Canada.Lehner, B., Verdin, K., Jarvis, A. (2008)New global hydrography derived from spaceborne elevation data Eos, Transactions, AGU, 89(10): 93–94. Considered one of the last truly wild large rivers in BC, the Stikine flows through a variety of landscapes including boreal forest, steep canyons and wide glacial valleys. Known as the "fastest-flowing navigable river in North America," the Stikine forms a natural waterway from northern interior British Columbia to the Pacific coast. The river has been used for millennia by indigenous peoples including the Tlingit an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrowhead, British Columbia
Arrowhead is a former steamboat port and town at the head of Upper Arrow Lake in British Columbia, Canada. Apart from the cemetery, the initial site has been submerged beneath the waters of the lake, which is now part of the reservoir formed by Hugh Keenleyside Dam at Castlegar. However, the name still identifies the locality, and sometimes the local region. Name origin Although the likely name origin is Arrowhead being at the head of the Arrow Lakes, another version indicates the finding of arrowheads in the ground during the construction of town buildings, evidencing an ancient battle between First Nations tribes. A further version identifies the arrowhead-shaped appearance of the lake from higher ground. The name of the Arrow Lakes is credited to "Arrow Rock", a large cliffside pictograph shot through with clusters of arrows, again relating to an ancient battle (in this case known to be between the Sinixt and the Ktunaxa), which stood above "the Narrows", a stretch of fast-fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Pacific Railway
The Canadian Pacific Railway (french: Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique) , also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, the railway owns approximately of track in seven provinces of Canada and into the United States, stretching from Montreal to Vancouver, and as far north as Edmonton. Its rail network also serves Minneapolis–St. Paul, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, and Albany, New York, in the United States. The railway was first built between eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885 (connecting with Ottawa Valley and Georgian Bay area lines built earlier), fulfilling a commitment extended to British Columbia when it entered Confederation in 1871; the CPR was Canada's first transcontinental railway. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nakusp (sternwheeler)
The ''Nakusp'' was a sternwheel steamboat that operated from 1895 to 1897 on the Arrow Lakes of British Columbia. Design and construction ''Nakusp'' was commissioned by the Columbia and Kootenay Steam Navigation Company to replace the sternwheeler ''Columbia'' which had burned in 1894. Capt. James W. Troup, the company's superintendent, designed ''Nakusp''. When launched on July 1, 1895, ''Nakusp'' was the largest steamboat that had been built on Arrow Lakes. There were then two other sternwheelers operating on the Arrow Lakes when ''Nakusp'' was launched, ''Lytton'' and ''Kootenai''. ''Nakusp'' could carrying more freight than both of them combined. At 1083 gross tons, ''Nakusp'' was over twice as large as the ''Columbia'' she was replacing. ''Nakusp'' was also considered a luxury vessel for the time, as described by historian Downs: ''Nakusp'' had three decks, the main or freight deck, the saloon or passenger deck, and the Texas or hurricane deck. The freight deck cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nakusp, British Columbia
The Village of Nakusp (Sinixt ''neqo'sp'') is beside the mouth of Kuskanax Creek, on the Upper Arrow Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. Lying between the Selkirk and Monashee ranges, the village is known for its nearby hot springs and picturesque mountain lakeside setting. First Nations peoples and European explorers The Secwepemc, Sinixt and Ktunaxa peoples occupied the region for thousands of years. In 1811, Finan McDonald, a member of David Thompson's party, was the first reported European explorer on the Arrow Lakes. The settlement name came from the Nakusp Creek to the south. As to the word meaning, suggestions have included an eddy, safe place (sheltered bay), a coming together (of the lake, which narrowed at this point prior to the dam), a private body part, and having buffalo, despite no evidence buffalo ever roamed the area. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Nakusp had a population of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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