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Series 6.11
   Ships, A-Chea

    Ships, Che-I
    Ships, K-R
    Ships, S-Ta
    Ships, Te-Y


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


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


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


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


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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