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    Company to replace the sternwheeler Columbia which had burned in 1894. Capt. James W. Troup, the company's superintendent, designed Nakusp. When launched on...
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  • Shallow-draft sternwheelers frequented this important hub. From 1895, the Nakusp and Slocan Railway brought ore northwestward to Nakusp from the inland...
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  • British Columbia, Canada Nakusp (sternwheeler) (1895–1897), a steamboat that operated on the Arrow Lakes of BC, Canada Nakusp Music Fest, an annual music...
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    SS Kootenay was a Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) wooden-hulled sternwheeler that serviced the Arrow Lakes in British Columbia, Canada from 1897 to 1919...
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    trip from Arrowhead to Robson and back in one day. Rossland was built at Nakusp at the shipyard owned by the master builder Thomas J. Bulger and his sons...
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    shipyard on upper Arrow Lake at Nakusp. Minto was needed on the Arrow Lakes because the C.P.R.'s big new steamer Nakusp had been destroyed by fire in 1897...
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  • Thumbnail for Bonnington (sternwheeler)
    from 1911 to 1931. Bonnington and two sisterships were the largest sternwheelers ever built in British Columbia. Bonnington was partially dismantled...
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    to run the shipyards at Nakusp and at Nelson, and to build Columbia's replacement. On July 1, 1895, the new sternwheeler, Nakusp, was launched from the...
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  • Thumbnail for Kootenai (sternwheeler)
    Kootenai was towed to Nakusp, BC and dismantled. The steamer's machinery and fittings were used in building the sternwheeler Trail. Affleck, Edward L...
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    against the BC Express Company's sternwheelers, the Fort George Lumber and Trading Company built a third sternwheeler, again by Donald McPhee in 1910,...
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