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Helen
Dawe Collection
Series
6.11
Ships, A-Chea
Ships, Che-I
Ships,
K-R
Ships,
S-Ta
Ships,
Te-Y
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Series
6.11 -- Ships (1887-1977) -- Che-I, Page 3
Most
photographs are of Union Steamship vessels, which operated between Vancouver,
Sechelt and Powell River. Some are of other steamship lines' vessels
or are of privately owned ships with connections to Sechelt.
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6.11.35
early
1900s -- The keel of the S.S. Comox was laid in 1891 and the ship
assembled at Coal Harbour, Vancouver for the Union Steamship Company.
She served the USS until 1919. In the early 1890s she anchored
in Trail Bay off Sechelt and the passengers were rowed ashore
in small boats until Herbert Whitaker built a wharf in the mid
1890s.
Photographer
unknown. See also oversize photograph 6.15.164
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6.11.38
1937
-- Captain Browne of the M.V. Comox 11 who operated the ship as
an excursion vessel up Sechelt Inlet and sometimes through the
Skookumchuk Rapids back to Sechelt
Photographer
unknown. See also oversize photograph 6.15.185
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6.11.39
1937
-- Captain Browne of the M.V. Comox 11 who operated the ship as
an excursion vessel up Sechelt Inlet and sometimes through the
Skookumchuk Rapids back to Sechelt
Photographer
unknown. See also oversize photograph 6.15.185
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6.11.41
1949/1950
-- Sea Bus Lines Ltd. vessel Entertainer moored in Gibson's harbour.
One of its owners George Firth and its mate John Bunyan inspect
the iced up vessel. The Sea Bus Lines operated as a passenger
vessel only from Fisherman's Cove to Gibson's .
Photographer
unknown
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6.11.42
1920s-1930s
-- The Lady Evelyn, arriving at Sechelt wharf, was purchased from
the Howe Sound Navigation Company by the Union Steamship Company
in 1922 and operated until 1936 when she was retired to Bedwell
Bay. Built in Britain in 1901 she had been a mail and passenger
carrier on the St. Lawrence River prior to coming to Vancouver.
Photograph
by Edric Clayton
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