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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