List of ships in British Columbia - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The following is a list of vessels notable in the history of the Canadian

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Provinces and territories of Canada

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of British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

, including Spanish, Russian, American and other military vessels and all commercial vessels on inland waters as well as on saltwater routes up to the end of World War II

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(1945). Royal Navy ships are listed separately in List of Royal Navy ships in the Pacific Northwest.

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Ship	Other names	Captain(s)	Type	Tons	Registry (flag)	Owner(s)	Events/locations	Dates in BC	Demise	Comments
Activo	Activa	Bodega y Quadra Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra was a Spanish naval officer born in Lima, Peru. Assigned to the Pacific coast Spanish Naval Department base at San Blas, in the Viceroyalty of New Spain , this navigator explored the Northwest Coast of North America as far north as present day Alaska.Juan... , Cosme Beltodano, Salvador Menéndez, Salvador Fidalgo Salvador Fidalgo Salvador Fidalgo y Lopegarcía was a Spanish explorer who commanded an exploring expedition for Spain to Alaska and the Pacific Northwest during the late 18th century.-Early career:... , José María Narváez José María Narváez José María Narváez was a Spanish naval officer, explorer, and navigator notable for his work in the Pacific Northwest of present-day Canada. In 1791, as commander of the schooner Santa Saturnina, he led the first European exploration of the Strait of Georgia, including a landing on present-day... , others	brigantine Brigantine In sailing, a brigantine or hermaphrodite brig is a vessel with two masts, only the forward of which is square rigged.-Origins of the term:...	200 ton, 16 guns, 2 masts (originally 195 ton displacement, carried twelve 3-pounders and two 3-pounder swivel guns)	Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...	Spanish Navy Spanish Navy The Spanish Navy is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces, one of the oldest active naval forces in the world. The Armada is responsible for notable achievements in world history such as the discovery of Americas, the first world circumnavigation, and the discovery of a maritime path... Dept. of San Blas San Blas, Nayarit San Blas is both a municipality and municipal seat located on the Pacific coast of Mexico in the state of Nayarit.-City:San Blas is a port and a popular tourist destination, located about 100 miles north of Puerto Vallarta, and 40 miles west of the state capital Tepic. The town has a population of...		Keel laid 9 December 1791; completed in 60 days; cost 29,854 pesos. Launched 29 February 1792.	Remained in service of San Blas Naval Base until at least 1808.	Built as a schooner Schooner A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts.... specifically for Bodega's 1792 diplomatic voyage to Nootka Sound and named Activa. In 1793 or 1794 was reconfigured as a brigantine and renamed Activo.
SS Abyssinia SS Abyssinia The Abyssinia was a British mail liner originally operated by the Cunard Line on the Liverpool–New York route. She later served the Guion Line on the same route and the Canadian Pacific Line in the Pacific...	Abyssinia		Steamship: passenger and freight liner	3651 tons		CPR Canadian Pacific Railway The Canadian Pacific Railway , formerly also known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railway founded in 1881 and now operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001... (chartered from Cunard Cunard Line Cunard Line is a British-American owned shipping company based at Carnival House in Southampton, England and operated by Carnival UK. It has been a leading operator of passenger ships on the North Atlantic for over a century... )	1887, TransPacific record on inaugural CPR shipment from Orient to NY/UK	1887–1891	destroyed by fire	First of CPR liners, pre-Empress series
Adventure Adventure (ship) The Adventure was a sloop maritime fur trade ship built by the crew of Captain Robert Gray on his second voyage to the Northwest Coast of North America. The 45-ton sloop was built to allow the trading venture to access smaller inlets the Columbia could not reach. At the end of his second voyage...	Horcasitas, Orcasitas, Orcacitas	Robert Haswell Robert Haswell Robert Haswell was an early American maritime fur trader to the Pacific Northwest of North America. His journals of these voyages are the main records of Captain Robert Gray's circumnavigation of the globe...	sloop Sloop A sloop is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter.... , merchant		U.S. United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... , Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...	Boston merchants, then Spanish Navy Spanish Navy The Spanish Navy is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces, one of the oldest active naval forces in the world. The Armada is responsible for notable achievements in world history such as the discovery of Americas, the first world circumnavigation, and the discovery of a maritime path... Dept. of San Blas San Blas, Nayarit San Blas is both a municipality and municipal seat located on the Pacific coast of Mexico in the state of Nayarit.-City:San Blas is a port and a popular tourist destination, located about 100 miles north of Puerto Vallarta, and 40 miles west of the state capital Tepic. The town has a population of...	First U.S. ship built in the Pacific, traded to Bodega y Quadra Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra was a Spanish naval officer born in Lima, Peru. Assigned to the Pacific coast Spanish Naval Department base at San Blas, in the Viceroyalty of New Spain , this navigator explored the Northwest Coast of North America as far north as present day Alaska.Juan... in 1792.
SS Albion
SS Alert SS Alert The SS Alert was a steamship that sunk off Cape Schanck, Victoria, Australia on 28 December 1893. The ship was built for the gentle waters of Scottish lochs and was almost long and weighed 247 tonnes....
SS Alice SS Alice Alice was the name of a number of steamships', a London and South Western Railway ship, a British, and later Belgian ship, an Ulric Thomas ship...
Alpha			steam launch				Arrow Lakes Arrow Lakes The Arrow Lakes in British Columbia, Canada, divided into Upper Arrow Lake and Lower Arrow Lake, are widenings of the Columbia River. The lakes are situated between the Selkirk Mountains to the east and the Monashee Mountains to the west. Beachland is fairly rare, and is interspersed with rocky... and Columbia River Columbia River The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, flows northwest and then south into the U.S. state of Washington, then turns west to form most of the border between Washington and the state... during CPR Canadian Pacific Railway The Canadian Pacific Railway , formerly also known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railway founded in 1881 and now operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001... construction
Amelia Amelia -Places:* Amelia, Umbria, a town in Italy* Amelia, Louisiana, a census-designated place in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, United States* Amelia, Nebraska, an unincorporated community in Holt County, Nebraska, United States...	formerly French Emilie	Owen			United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...		1793
Ann		Hersey	Schooner Schooner A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....	204 tons	US United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	Bryant & Sturgis, Boston	Maritime Fur Trade Maritime Fur Trade The Maritime Fur Trade was a ship-based fur trade system that focused on acquiring furs of sea otters and other animals from the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and natives of Alaska. The furs were mostly sold in China in exchange for tea, silks, porcelain, and other Chinese...	1823
Aránzazu		Juan Bautista Matute, Jacinto Caamaño Jacinto Caamaño Jacinto Caamaño Moraleja was the leader of the last great Spanish exploration of Alaska and the Coast of British Columbia. He was a Knight of the Military Order of Calatrava. Born in Madrid, he came from an aristocratic Galician family, whose homestead was near Santiago de Compostela... , John Kendrick, Jr., others	frigate Frigate A frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.In the 17th century, the term was used for any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the description often used being "frigate-built"...		Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...	Spanish Navy Spanish Navy The Spanish Navy is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces, one of the oldest active naval forces in the world. The Armada is responsible for notable achievements in world history such as the discovery of Americas, the first world circumnavigation, and the discovery of a maritime path... Dept. of San Blas San Blas, Nayarit San Blas is both a municipality and municipal seat located on the Pacific coast of Mexico in the state of Nayarit.-City:San Blas is a port and a popular tourist destination, located about 100 miles north of Puerto Vallarta, and 40 miles west of the state capital Tepic. The town has a population of...	scientific/ethnographic survey	circa 1789-1795		Also spelled Aranzazú
Argonaut	Argonauta	James Colnett James Colnett James Colnett was an officer of the British Royal Navy, an explorer, and a maritime fur trader. He served under James Cook during Cook's second voyage of exploration...			Britain United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....	King George's Sound Company King George's Sound Company The King George's Sound Company, also known as Richard Cadman Etches and Company after its "prime mover and principal investor", was an English company formed in 1785 for the Maritime Fur Trade on the northwest coast of North America... , then joint company with John Meares John Meares John Meares was a navigator, explorer, and maritime fur trader, best known for his role in the Nootka Crisis, which brought Britain and Spain to the brink of war.- Career :... and partners	Captured by Spain during Nootka Crisis Nootka Crisis The Nootka Crisis was an international incident and political dispute between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Spain, triggered by a series of events that took place during the summer of 1789 at Nootka Sound...			After captured by Spain was briefly part of the Spanish Navy at San Blas and called a packet boat, Argonauta. It was to be part of the 1790 fleet sailing to Nootka Sound under Eliza, but the San Carlos was used instead.
SS Arthur
Astrolabe French ship Astrolabe (1781) The Astrolabe was a converted fluyt of the French Navy, famous for her travels with Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse.She departed Brest on 1 August 1785 under Paul Antoine Fleuriot de Langle, along with the Boussole under La Pérouse....	L'Astrolabe	Fleuriot de Langle	frigate Frigate A frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.In the 17th century, the term was used for any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the description often used being "frigate-built"...	500 tons	France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...	French Navy	La Pérouse Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse was a French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania.-Early career:... Expedition. With Boussole, was 5th and 6th ships to visit Hawaii.	late 1780s		see also Boussole
Atahualpa		Captain Adams			U.S. United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... , Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	Theodore Lyman and associates	attacked in Clayoquot Sound Clayoquot Sound Clayoquot Sound is located on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is bordered by the Esowista Peninsula to the south, and the Hesquiaht Peninsula to the North. It is a body of water with many inlets and islands. Major inlets include Sydney Inlet,... . Sold to Russians and renamed Bering.	1790s; 1801–1805, 1807, 1813
Atrevida		José de Bustamante José de Bustamante y Guerra José de Bustamante y Guerra , sometimes referred to simply as Bustamante, was a Spanish naval officer, explorer, and politician. He was a native of Corvera de Toranzo in Cantabria, Spain.-Early life:In 1770 Bustamante became a midshipman at the Academy of the Guardiamarinas in Cádiz...	corvette Corvette A corvette is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, originally smaller than a frigate and larger than a coastal patrol craft or fast attack craft , although many recent designs resemble frigates in size and role...	120 foot length, 306 tons, 16 officers and 86 men	Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...	Spanish Navy Spanish Navy The Spanish Navy is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces, one of the oldest active naval forces in the world. The Armada is responsible for notable achievements in world history such as the discovery of Americas, the first world circumnavigation, and the discovery of a maritime path...		Launched 1788, returned to Spain 1794		Twin of the Descubierta

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Ship	Other names	Captain(s)	Type	Tons	Draft	Registry (flag)	Owner(s)	Events/locations	Dates in BC	Demise	Comments
RMS BC Express BC Express (sternwheeler) The BC Express was a stern wheel paddle steamer that operated on the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada, from 1912 to 1919. The BC Express was built for the BC Express Company by Alexander Watson Jr to work on the upper Fraser River between Tête Jaune Cache and Fort George during the busy...		Joseph Bucey	sternwheeler	Gross 449 Registered 283			Barnard's Express Barnard's Express Barnard's Express, later known as the British Columbia Express Company or BX, was a pioneer transportation company that served the Cariboo and Fraser Fort George regions in British Columbia, Canada from 1861 until 1921....		Launched at Soda Creek June 1912	Retired in 1920 at South Fort George South Fort George South Fort George is a suburb of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.Before the arrival of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1914, the Prince George area was known as Fort George and was a Lheidli T'enneh village and Hudson's Bay Company store....
Beaver Beaver (steamship) Beaver was the first steamship to operate in the Pacific Northwest of North America. She made remote parts of the west coast of Canada accessible for maritime fur trading and was chartered by the Royal Navy for surveying the coastline of British Columbia....			sidewheeler			Britain United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....	HBC Hudson's Bay Company The Hudson's Bay Company , abbreviated HBC, or "The Bay" is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and one of the oldest in the world. A fur trading business for much of its existence, today Hudson's Bay Company owns and operates retail stores throughout Canada...	Maritime Fur Trade Maritime Fur Trade The Maritime Fur Trade was a ship-based fur trade system that focused on acquiring furs of sea otters and other animals from the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and natives of Alaska. The furs were mostly sold in China in exchange for tea, silks, porcelain, and other Chinese... and military use from Columbia River to Alaska Panhandle	1836-1888	Wrecked at Prospect Point, Stanley Park	Boulton and Watt beam engines
Belle Savage						US United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...		1801, attacked by 150 Haida in Fitz Hugh Sound, vessel nearly seized.	1800-1802		sea otter Maritime Fur Trade Maritime Fur Trade The Maritime Fur Trade was a ship-based fur trade system that focused on acquiring furs of sea otters and other animals from the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and natives of Alaska. The furs were mostly sold in China in exchange for tea, silks, porcelain, and other Chinese... vessel
Bordelais		Camille de Roquefeuil	Ship Ship Since the end of the age of sail a ship has been any large buoyant marine vessel. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas, and rivers for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing,...	200 tons, 8 guns, 34 crew		France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...	Balguerie, Jr., Bordeaux, France	Maritime Fur Trade Maritime Fur Trade The Maritime Fur Trade was a ship-based fur trade system that focused on acquiring furs of sea otters and other animals from the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and natives of Alaska. The furs were mostly sold in China in exchange for tea, silks, porcelain, and other Chinese...	1817, 1818		1817, sailed from France to Chile, California, Nootka Sound.
Boston		John Salter	"trading ship"			US United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...		/td>		On 22 March 1803, was seized by Maquinna Maquinna Maquinna was the chief of the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, during the heyday of the maritime fur trade in the 1780s and 1790s on the Pacific Northwest Coast... , all but two of the crew "murdered"; a "desperate attempt by Maquinna to regain his prestige.	only survivors John Thompson and John R. Jewitt John R. Jewitt John Rodgers Jewitt was an armourer who entered the historical record with his memoirs about the 28 months he spent as a captive of Maquinna of the Nuu-chah-nulth people on the Pacific Northwest Coast of what is now Canada... , the latter's account of his captivity is a classic in Pacific Northwest early history
Boussole French ship Boussole (1781) Boussole was a ship of the French Navy, famous for its exploration of the Pacific with Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse.It departed Brest on 1 August 1785 under La Pérouse, accompanied by the Astrolabe under Paul Antoine Fleuriot de Langle.The expedition vanished mysteriously in 1788...	La Boussole	La Pérouse Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse was a French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania.-Early career:...	frigate Frigate A frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.In the 17th century, the term was used for any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the description often used being "frigate-built"...	500 tons		France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...	French Navy	With Astrolabe, 5th and 6th ships to visit Hawaii.	late 1780s
Butterworth		William Brown		400 tons		Britain United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....	William Brown	Maritime fur trading Maritime Fur Trade The Maritime Fur Trade was a ship-based fur trade system that focused on acquiring furs of sea otters and other animals from the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and natives of Alaska. The furs were mostly sold in China in exchange for tea, silks, porcelain, and other Chinese... in 1790s			Part of the "Butterworth squadron", including Jackall and Prince Lee Boo
RMS B.X. BX (sternwheeler) The BX sternwheeler was the first of two river steamers built for service on the upper Fraser River by the BC Express Company during the busy era of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway construction....		Owen Forrester Browne Owen Forrester Browne Owen Forrester Browne was a paddle steamer captain in British Columbia, and Alberta, Canada.He was born in New Westminster and worked on the lower Fraser and Yukon River sternwheelers before coming to the upper Fraser River in the early 1900s.-Career:...	sternwheeler	Gross 513 Registered 283	16 inches	Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...	Barnard's Express Barnard's Express Barnard's Express, later known as the British Columbia Express Company or BX, was a pioneer transportation company that served the Cariboo and Fraser Fort George regions in British Columbia, Canada from 1861 until 1921....		Launched in Soda Creek Soda Creek Soda Creek is a rural subdivision 38 km north of Williams Lakein British Columbia, Canada. Located on the east bank of the Fraser River, Soda Creek was originally the home of the Xat'sull First Nation. Soda Creek Indian Reserve No. 1 is located on the left bank of the Fraser River, one mile... May 13, 1910	Sank in August 1919, Salvaged and Retired October 1919

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Cadboro (schooner)

The Cadboro was a schooner in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company in its operations on the Pacific Northwest Coast in the early 19th century. The 71 ton vessel carried 4 guns and had a crew of 12 men...

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Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company , abbreviated HBC, or "The Bay" is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and one of the oldest in the world. A fur trading business for much of its existence, today Hudson's Bay Company owns and operates retail stores throughout Canada...

Brig

A brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and manoeuvrable and were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels. They were especially popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries...

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East India Company

The East India Company was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China...

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Prince William Sound

Prince William Sound is a sound off the Gulf of Alaska on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located on the east side of the Kenai Peninsula. Its largest port is Valdez, at the southern terminus of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System...

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Medny Island

Medny Island , is the second largest island in the Komandorski Islands east of Russia...

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Macau

Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...

Charlotte (sternwheeler)

The Charlotte sternwheeler was built in 1896 by Alexander Watson for the Northern British Columbia Navigation Company. The partners of the NBCNC were Stephen Tingley, Senator James Reid and John Irving...

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Owen Forrester Browne

Owen Forrester Browne was a paddle steamer captain in British Columbia, and Alberta, Canada.He was born in New Westminster and worked on the lower Fraser and Yukon River sternwheelers before coming to the upper Fraser River in the early 1900s.-Career:...

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Nechacco (sternwheeler)

The Nechacco sternwheeler was built for service on the Soda Creek to Fort George route on the upper Fraser River in British Columbia. She was owned by the Fort George Lumber and Navigation Company. The partners in this company were Nick Clark and Russel Peden of South Fort George, who operated a...

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John Bonser (steamship captain)

John Henry Bonser was a steamship captain from Oregon, USA and British Columbia, Canada. He piloted dozens of sternwheelers over his 40 year long career and pioneered many rivers in the Pacific Northwest....

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Grand Canyon of the Fraser

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Chilcotin (sternwheeler)

The Chilcotin sternwheeler was built for the Soda Creek to Fort George route of the upper Fraser River. She was built by shipbuilder Donald McPhee for the Fort George Lumber and Navigation Company, which was a partnership held by Nick Clarke and Russell Peden of the South Fort George town-site of...

Paddle steamer

A paddle steamer is a steamship or riverboat, powered by a steam engine, using paddle wheels to propel it through the water. In antiquity, Paddle wheelers followed the development of poles, oars and sails, where the first uses were wheelers driven by animals or humans...

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Kootenay Lake

Kootenay Lake is a lake located in British Columbia, Canada and is part of theKootenay River. The lake has been raised by the Corra Linn Dam and has a dike system at the southern end, which, along with industry in the 1950s-70s, has changed the ecosystem in and around the water...

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Columbia (barque)

The Columbia was a 310 ton, 6 gun barque in the service of the Columbia District of the Hudson's Bay Company on the Columbia River and elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest in the 1830s and 1840s. The vessel's complement of crew was 24 men....

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The following is a list of vessels notable in the history of the Canadian

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Provinces and territories of Canada

The provinces and territories of Canada combine to make up the world's second-largest country by area. There are ten provinces and three territories...

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British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

, including Spanish, Russian, American and other military vessels and all commercial vessels on inland waters as well as on saltwater routes up to the end of World War II

World War II

(1945). Royal Navy ships are listed separately in List of Royal Navy ships in the Pacific Northwest.

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Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra

Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra was a Spanish naval officer born in Lima, Peru. Assigned to the Pacific coast Spanish Naval Department base at San Blas, in the Viceroyalty of New Spain , this navigator explored the Northwest Coast of North America as far north as present day Alaska.Juan...

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Salvador Fidalgo

Salvador Fidalgo y Lopegarcía was a Spanish explorer who commanded an exploring expedition for Spain to Alaska and the Pacific Northwest during the late 18th century.-Early career:...

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José María Narváez

José María Narváez was a Spanish naval officer, explorer, and navigator notable for his work in the Pacific Northwest of present-day Canada. In 1791, as commander of the schooner Santa Saturnina, he led the first European exploration of the Strait of Georgia, including a landing on present-day...

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Brigantine

In sailing, a brigantine or hermaphrodite brig is a vessel with two masts, only the forward of which is square rigged.-Origins of the term:...

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Spanish Navy

The Spanish Navy is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces, one of the oldest active naval forces in the world. The Armada is responsible for notable achievements in world history such as the discovery of Americas, the first world circumnavigation, and the discovery of a maritime path...

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San Blas, Nayarit

San Blas is both a municipality and municipal seat located on the Pacific coast of Mexico in the state of Nayarit.-City:San Blas is a port and a popular tourist destination, located about 100 miles north of Puerto Vallarta, and 40 miles west of the state capital Tepic. The town has a population of...

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Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

specifically for Bodega's 1792 diplomatic voyage to Nootka Sound and named Activa. In 1793 or 1794 was reconfigured as a brigantine and renamed Activo.
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|SS Abyssinia

SS Abyssinia

The Abyssinia was a British mail liner originally operated by the Cunard Line on the Liverpool–New York route. She later served the Guion Line on the same route and the Canadian Pacific Line in the Pacific...

Canadian Pacific Railway

The Canadian Pacific Railway , formerly also known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railway founded in 1881 and now operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001...

(chartered from Cunard

Cunard Line

Cunard Line is a British-American owned shipping company based at Carnival House in Southampton, England and operated by Carnival UK. It has been a leading operator of passenger ships on the North Atlantic for over a century...

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|1887, TransPacific record on inaugural CPR shipment from Orient to NY/UK
| 1887–1891
| destroyed by fire
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|Adventure

Adventure (ship)

The Adventure was a sloop maritime fur trade ship built by the crew of Captain Robert Gray on his second voyage to the Northwest Coast of North America. The 45-ton sloop was built to allow the trading venture to access smaller inlets the Columbia could not reach. At the end of his second voyage...

| Horcasitas, Orcasitas, Orcacitas
| Robert Haswell

Robert Haswell

Robert Haswell was an early American maritime fur trader to the Pacific Northwest of North America. His journals of these voyages are the main records of Captain Robert Gray's circumnavigation of the globe...

| sloop

Sloop

A sloop is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter....

, merchant
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United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, Spain

Spain

| Boston merchants, then Spanish Navy

Spanish Navy

Dept. of San Blas

San Blas, Nayarit

| First U.S. ship built in the Pacific, traded to Bodega y Quadra

Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra

in 1792.
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SS Alert

The SS Alert was a steamship that sunk off Cape Schanck, Victoria, Australia on 28 December 1893. The ship was built for the gentle waters of Scottish lochs and was almost long and weighed 247 tonnes....

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SS Alice

Alice was the name of a number of steamships', a London and South Western Railway ship, a British, and later Belgian ship, an Ulric Thomas ship...

Arrow Lakes

The Arrow Lakes in British Columbia, Canada, divided into Upper Arrow Lake and Lower Arrow Lake, are widenings of the Columbia River. The lakes are situated between the Selkirk Mountains to the east and the Monashee Mountains to the west. Beachland is fairly rare, and is interspersed with rocky...

and Columbia River

Columbia River

The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, flows northwest and then south into the U.S. state of Washington, then turns west to form most of the border between Washington and the state...

during CPR

Canadian Pacific Railway

Amelia

-Places:* Amelia, Umbria, a town in Italy* Amelia, Louisiana, a census-designated place in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, United States* Amelia, Nebraska, an unincorporated community in Holt County, Nebraska, United States...

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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| Schooner

Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

| 204 tons
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United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

| Bryant & Sturgis, Boston
| Maritime Fur Trade

Maritime Fur Trade

The Maritime Fur Trade was a ship-based fur trade system that focused on acquiring furs of sea otters and other animals from the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and natives of Alaska. The furs were mostly sold in China in exchange for tea, silks, porcelain, and other Chinese...

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| Juan Bautista Matute, Jacinto Caamaño

Jacinto Caamaño

Jacinto Caamaño Moraleja was the leader of the last great Spanish exploration of Alaska and the Coast of British Columbia. He was a Knight of the Military Order of Calatrava. Born in Madrid, he came from an aristocratic Galician family, whose homestead was near Santiago de Compostela...

, John Kendrick, Jr., others
| frigate

Frigate

A frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.In the 17th century, the term was used for any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the description often used being "frigate-built"...

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Spain

| Spanish Navy

Spanish Navy

Dept. of San Blas

San Blas, Nayarit

James Colnett

James Colnett was an officer of the British Royal Navy, an explorer, and a maritime fur trader. He served under James Cook during Cook's second voyage of exploration...

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....

| King George's Sound Company

King George's Sound Company

The King George's Sound Company, also known as Richard Cadman Etches and Company after its "prime mover and principal investor", was an English company formed in 1785 for the Maritime Fur Trade on the northwest coast of North America...

, then joint company with John Meares

John Meares

John Meares was a navigator, explorer, and maritime fur trader, best known for his role in the Nootka Crisis, which brought Britain and Spain to the brink of war.- Career :...

and partners
| Captured by Spain during Nootka Crisis

Nootka Crisis

The Nootka Crisis was an international incident and political dispute between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Spain, triggered by a series of events that took place during the summer of 1789 at Nootka Sound...

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French ship Astrolabe (1781)

The Astrolabe was a converted fluyt of the French Navy, famous for her travels with Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse.She departed Brest on 1 August 1785 under Paul Antoine Fleuriot de Langle, along with the Boussole under La Pérouse....

| L'Astrolabe
| Fleuriot de Langle
| frigate

Frigate

| 500 tons
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| France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

| French Navy
| La Pérouse

Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse

Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse was a French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania.-Early career:...

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

| Theodore Lyman and associates
| attacked in Clayoquot Sound

Clayoquot Sound

Clayoquot Sound is located on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is bordered by the Esowista Peninsula to the south, and the Hesquiaht Peninsula to the North. It is a body of water with many inlets and islands. Major inlets include Sydney Inlet,...

José de Bustamante y Guerra

José de Bustamante y Guerra , sometimes referred to simply as Bustamante, was a Spanish naval officer, explorer, and politician. He was a native of Corvera de Toranzo in Cantabria, Spain.-Early life:In 1770 Bustamante became a midshipman at the Academy of the Guardiamarinas in Cádiz...

| corvette

Corvette

A corvette is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, originally smaller than a frigate and larger than a coastal patrol craft or fast attack craft , although many recent designs resemble frigates in size and role...

| 120 foot length, 306 tons, 16 officers and 86 men
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Spain

| Spanish Navy

Spanish Navy

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BC Express (sternwheeler)

The BC Express was a stern wheel paddle steamer that operated on the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada, from 1912 to 1919. The BC Express was built for the BC Express Company by Alexander Watson Jr to work on the upper Fraser River between Tête Jaune Cache and Fort George during the busy...

Barnard's Express

Barnard's Express, later known as the British Columbia Express Company or BX, was a pioneer transportation company that served the Cariboo and Fraser Fort George regions in British Columbia, Canada from 1861 until 1921....

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| Retired in 1920 at South Fort George

South Fort George

South Fort George is a suburb of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.Before the arrival of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1914, the Prince George area was known as Fort George and was a Lheidli T'enneh village and Hudson's Bay Company store....

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|Beaver

Beaver (steamship)

Beaver was the first steamship to operate in the Pacific Northwest of North America. She made remote parts of the west coast of Canada accessible for maritime fur trading and was chartered by the Royal Navy for surveying the coastline of British Columbia....

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....

| HBC

Hudson's Bay Company

| Maritime Fur Trade

Maritime Fur Trade

and military use from Columbia River to Alaska Panhandle
| 1836-1888
| Wrecked at Prospect Point, Stanley Park
| Boulton and Watt beam engines
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United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

Maritime Fur Trade

Ship

Since the end of the age of sail a ship has been any large buoyant marine vessel. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas, and rivers for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing,...

| 200 tons, 8 guns, 34 crew
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| France

France

| Balguerie, Jr., Bordeaux, France
| Maritime Fur Trade

Maritime Fur Trade

| 1817, 1818
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| 1817, sailed from France to Chile, California, Nootka Sound.
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|Boston
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United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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Maquinna

Maquinna was the chief of the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, during the heyday of the maritime fur trade in the 1780s and 1790s on the Pacific Northwest Coast...

, all but two of the crew "murdered"; a "desperate attempt by Maquinna to regain his prestige.
| only survivors John Thompson and John R. Jewitt

John R. Jewitt

John Rodgers Jewitt was an armourer who entered the historical record with his memoirs about the 28 months he spent as a captive of Maquinna of the Nuu-chah-nulth people on the Pacific Northwest Coast of what is now Canada...

, the latter's account of his captivity is a classic in Pacific Northwest early history
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|Boussole

French ship Boussole (1781)

Boussole was a ship of the French Navy, famous for its exploration of the Pacific with Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse.It departed Brest on 1 August 1785 under La Pérouse, accompanied by the Astrolabe under Paul Antoine Fleuriot de Langle.The expedition vanished mysteriously in 1788...

| La Boussole
| La Pérouse

Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse

Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse was a French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania.-Early career:...

| frigate

Frigate

| 500 tons
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| France

France

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....

| William Brown
| Maritime fur trading

Maritime Fur Trade

in 1790s
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| RMS B.X.

BX (sternwheeler)

The BX sternwheeler was the first of two river steamers built for service on the upper Fraser River by the BC Express Company during the busy era of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway construction....

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| Owen Forrester Browne

Owen Forrester Browne

| sternwheeler
| Gross 513 Registered 283
| 16 inches
| Canada

Canada

| Barnard's Express

Barnard's Express

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Soda Creek

Soda Creek is a rural subdivision 38 km north of Williams Lakein British Columbia, Canada. Located on the east bank of the Fraser River, Soda Creek was originally the home of the Xat'sull First Nation. Soda Creek Indian Reserve No. 1 is located on the left bank of the Fraser River, one mile...

May 13, 1910
| Sank in August 1919, Salvaged and Retired October 1919
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Cadboro (schooner)

United Kingdom

| HBC

Hudson's Bay Company

Brig

| 350 tons, crew of 61, including James Strange (1786 voyage)
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United Kingdom

| James Strange and David Scott (future chairman of East India Company

East India Company

Prince William Sound

. Tried but failed to sail to Copper Island

Medny Island

Medny Island , is the second largest island in the Komandorski Islands east of Russia...

. Returned to Macau

Macau

Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...

Charlotte (sternwheeler)

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| Owen Forrester Browne

Owen Forrester Browne

Frank Odin
| sternwheeler
| Gross 217 Registered 79
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Canada

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

Nechacco (sternwheeler)

| John Bonser

John Bonser (steamship captain)

in 1909-10 George Ritchie 1910-11
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| Gross 129 Registered 76
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Canada

Grand Canyon of the Fraser

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Chilcotin (sternwheeler)

Paddle steamer

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Canada

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Kootenay Lake

November 29, 1898, 9 lives lost
| Wreck is heritage site

Heritage site

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Columbia (barque)

United Kingdom

| HBC

Hudson's Bay Company

| Launched 1835
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The following is a list of vessels notable in the history of the Canadian

Canada

province

Provinces and territories of Canada

The provinces and territories of Canada combine to make up the world's second-largest country by area. There are ten provinces and three territories...

of British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

, including Spanish, Russian, American and other military vessels and all commercial vessels on inland waters as well as on saltwater routes up to the end of World War II

World War II

(1945). Royal Navy ships are listed separately in List of Royal Navy ships in the Pacific Northwest.

A

Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra

, Cosme Beltodano, Salvador Menéndez, Salvador Fidalgo

Salvador Fidalgo

Salvador Fidalgo y Lopegarcía was a Spanish explorer who commanded an exploring expedition for Spain to Alaska and the Pacific Northwest during the late 18th century.-Early career:...

, José María Narváez

José María Narváez

, others
| brigantine

Brigantine

In sailing, a brigantine or hermaphrodite brig is a vessel with two masts, only the forward of which is square rigged.-Origins of the term:...

| 200 ton, 16 guns, 2 masts (originally 195 ton displacement, carried twelve 3-pounders and two 3-pounder swivel guns)
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| Spain

Spain

| Spanish Navy

Spanish Navy

Dept. of San Blas

San Blas, Nayarit

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| Keel laid 9 December 1791; completed in 60 days; cost 29,854 pesos. Launched 29 February 1792.
| Remained in service of San Blas Naval Base until at least 1808.
| Built as a schooner

Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

specifically for Bodega's 1792 diplomatic voyage to Nootka Sound and named Activa. In 1793 or 1794 was reconfigured as a brigantine and renamed Activo.
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|SS Abyssinia

SS Abyssinia

Canadian Pacific Railway

(chartered from Cunard

Cunard Line

)
|1887, TransPacific record on inaugural CPR shipment from Orient to NY/UK
| 1887–1891
| destroyed by fire
| First of CPR liners, pre-Empress series
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|Adventure

Adventure (ship)

| Horcasitas, Orcasitas, Orcacitas
| Robert Haswell

Robert Haswell

| sloop

Sloop

A sloop is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter....

, merchant
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| U.S.

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, Spain

Spain

| Boston merchants, then Spanish Navy

Spanish Navy

Dept. of San Blas

San Blas, Nayarit

| First U.S. ship built in the Pacific, traded to Bodega y Quadra

Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra

in 1792.
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SS Alert

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SS Alice

Alice was the name of a number of steamships', a London and South Western Railway ship, a British, and later Belgian ship, an Ulric Thomas ship...

Arrow Lakes

and Columbia River

Columbia River

during CPR

Canadian Pacific Railway

Amelia

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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| Schooner

Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

| 204 tons
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United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

| Bryant & Sturgis, Boston
| Maritime Fur Trade

Maritime Fur Trade

| 1823
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|Aránzazu
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| Juan Bautista Matute, Jacinto Caamaño

Jacinto Caamaño

, John Kendrick, Jr., others
| frigate

Frigate

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| Spain

Spain

| Spanish Navy

Spanish Navy

Dept. of San Blas

San Blas, Nayarit

James Colnett

James Colnett was an officer of the British Royal Navy, an explorer, and a maritime fur trader. He served under James Cook during Cook's second voyage of exploration...

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....

| King George's Sound Company

King George's Sound Company

, then joint company with John Meares

John Meares

John Meares was a navigator, explorer, and maritime fur trader, best known for his role in the Nootka Crisis, which brought Britain and Spain to the brink of war.- Career :...

and partners
| Captured by Spain during Nootka Crisis

Nootka Crisis

French ship Astrolabe (1781)

| L'Astrolabe
| Fleuriot de Langle
| frigate

Frigate

| 500 tons
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| France

France

| French Navy
| La Pérouse

Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse

Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse was a French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania.-Early career:...

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

| Theodore Lyman and associates
| attacked in Clayoquot Sound

Clayoquot Sound

José de Bustamante y Guerra

| corvette

Corvette

| 120 foot length, 306 tons, 16 officers and 86 men
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| Spain

Spain

| Spanish Navy

Spanish Navy

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BC Express (sternwheeler)

Barnard's Express

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| Retired in 1920 at South Fort George

South Fort George

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|Beaver

Beaver (steamship)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....

| HBC

Hudson's Bay Company

| Maritime Fur Trade

Maritime Fur Trade

and military use from Columbia River to Alaska Panhandle
| 1836-1888
| Wrecked at Prospect Point, Stanley Park
| Boulton and Watt beam engines
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|Belle Savage
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United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

Maritime Fur Trade

Ship

| 200 tons, 8 guns, 34 crew
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| France

France

| Balguerie, Jr., Bordeaux, France
| Maritime Fur Trade

Maritime Fur Trade

| 1817, 1818
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| 1817, sailed from France to Chile, California, Nootka Sound.
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|Boston
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| John Salter
| "trading ship"
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| US

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

Canada

| Union Steamship Company
| Union Steamship Company's first successful passenger ship
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Alessandro Malaspina

Alessandro Malaspina was an Italian nobleman who spent most of his life as a Spanish naval officer and explorer...

| corvette

Corvette

| 120 foot length, 306 tons, 16 officers and 86 men
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| Spain

Spain

| Spanish Navy

Spanish Navy

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

United Kingdom

| HBC

Hudson's Bay Company

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United Kingdom

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Hudson's Bay Company

Simon Metcalfe

Simon Metcalfe was a British American surveyor and one of the first American maritime fur traders to visit the Pacific Northwest coast...

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Brig

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United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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Nootka Crisis

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Koyah

Koyah, also Coya, Coyour, Kower, Kouyer Koyah, also Coya, Coyour, Kower, Kouyer Koyah, also Coya, Coyour, Kower, Kouyer (phonetically /xo’ya/, meaning "raven" (b.?-d. c.1795), was the chief of Ninstints or Skungwai, the main village of the Kunghit-Haida during the era of the Maritime Fur Trade in...

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Maritime Fur Trade

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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RMS Empress of Japan (1891)

RMS Empress of Japan, also known as the "Queen of the Pacific", was an ocean liner built in 1890-1891 by Naval Construction & Armament Co., Barrow, England for Canadian Pacific Steamships...

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Ocean liner

An ocean liner is a ship designed to transport people from one seaport to another along regular long-distance maritime routes according to a schedule. Liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may sometimes be used for other purposes .Cargo vessels running to a schedule are sometimes referred to as...

| 5,905 GRT
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| Canada

Canada

| Canadian Pacific Railway

Canadian Pacific Railway

RMS Empress of Japan (1930)

RMS Empress of Japan was an ocean liner built in 1929-1930 by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland for Canadian Pacific Steamships . This ship -- the second of two CP vessels to be named Empress of Japan -- regularly traversed the trans-Pacific route...

| RMS Empress of Scotland, SS Hanseatic
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| steamship/ocean liner

Ocean liner

| 30,030 GRT
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| Canada

Canada

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

| Canadian Pacific Steamships

CP Ships

CP Ships was a large Canadian container shipping company, prior to being taken over by Hapag Lloyd in late 2005. CP Ships had its head office in the City of Westminster in London and later in the City Place Gatwick development on the property of London Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex.The...

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Enterprise (1862)

The Enterprise was a passenger and freight sternwheeler that was built for service on the Soda Creek to Quesnel route on the upper Fraser River in British Columbia. It was built at Four Mile Creek near Alexandria by pioneer shipbuilder James Trahey of Victoria for Gustavus Blin-Wright and Captain...

Canada

William Alexander Mouat

- Early life :William Alexander Mouat was baptised on 9 April 1821 in Eastcheap, in the City of London. He was born into a seafaring family. His father William Mouat - born 1774 in Kirkwall, Orkney - was a master mariner and later a coal merchant and a coal meter in the City of London. William...

Hudson's Bay Company

| The first wooden side-wheeler to travel between Victoria and New Westminster on the Fraser River
| Built at San Francisco in 1861 and bought by Hudson's Bay Company in 1862
| Collided with the steamer R.P. Rithet (sternwheeler)

R.P. Rithet (sternwheeler)

R.P. Rithet was a sternwheel steamer that operated in British Columbia from 1882 to 1917. The common name for this vessel was the Rithet. After 1909 this vessel was known as the Baramba.-Design and Construction:...

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SS Europa

A number of steamships have been named SS Europa after the continent of Europe:, an ocean liner operated by the North German Lloyd 1930–1945, a 16,504-ton ocean liner in Europe—North America immigrant service in 1950–51...

United Kingdom

| James Strange and David Scott (future chairman of East India Company

East India Company

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| Maritime fur trading

Maritime Fur Trade

along the coast from Nootka Sound to Prince William Sound

Prince William Sound

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Macau

Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...

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Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

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The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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Nootka Crisis

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Maritime Fur Trade

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Spain

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Spanish Navy

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San Blas, Nayarit

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Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra

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| Ostensibly Francisco José Viana, but really John Meares

John Meares

John Meares was a navigator, explorer, and maritime fur trader, best known for his role in the Nootka Crisis, which brought Britain and Spain to the brink of war.- Career :...

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Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

| John Meares and partners
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Maritime Fur Trade

vessel in the 1880s, captured with three others of Meares' ships by Spain in 1789, causing the Nootka Crisis

Nootka Crisis

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Nootka Sound

Nootka Sound is a complex inlet or sound of the Pacific Ocean on the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island, in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Historically also known as King George's Sound, as a strait it separates Vancouver Island and Nootka Island.-History:The inlet is part of the...

. Together with the Iphigenia, flying the Portuguese flag to evade East India Company

East India Company

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Fenis and St. Joseph

Fenis and St. Joseph, also known as the Sao Jao y Fenix or the San José el Fénix, was a 50 foot brig that visited Nootka Sound in 1792. It bore a Portuguese flag of convenience, possibly out of Macau and had a Portuguese captain, João de Barros Andrade, but had the Englishman Robert Duffin on board...

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Zachary Mudge

Zachary Mudge was an officer in the Royal Navy, best known for serving in the historic Vancouver Expedition.-Early life:...

to China, as part of the Vancouver Expedition

Vancouver Expedition

The Vancouver Expedition was a four-and-a-half-year voyage of exploration and diplomacy, commanded by Captain George Vancouver. The expedition circumnavigated the globe, touched five continents and changed the course of history for the indigenous nations and several European empires and their...

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Flag of convenience

The term flag of convenience describes the business practice of registering a merchant ship in a sovereign state different from that of the ship's owners, and flying that state's civil ensign on the ship. Ships are registered under flags of convenience to reduce operating costs or avoid the...

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Flying Dutchman (steamship)

The Flying Dutchman was a 19th century steamship in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. It was the first steamboat to enter the Stikine River, in 1862, and the first vessel to take a cargo of lumber from Burrard Inlet , in August 1863, under Captain William Moore....

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William Moore (steamship captain)

William Moore was a steamship captain, businessman, miner and explorer in British Columbia and Alaska. During most of British Columbia's gold rushes Moore could be found at the center of activity, either providing transportation to the miners, working claims or delivering mail and...

Fort Fraser (sternwheeler)

The Fort Fraser was a small sternwheeler owned by the Fort George Lumber and Transportation Company a partnership originally held by Nick Clarke and Russell Peden from the Fort George town-site of South Fort George...

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John Bonser (steamship captain)

(1910) George Ritchie (1911–13)
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Canada

Fraser River

The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Mount Robson in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for , into the Strait of Georgia at the city of Vancouver. It is the tenth longest river in Canada...

Forty-Nine (steamboat)

The Forty-Nine was a steamboat built in 1865 at Marcus, Washington Terr., just above Kettle Falls on the Columbia River to carry travellers and freight north up the Columbia River and the Arrow Lakes to the Big Bend Gold Rush in the Colony of British Columbia...

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Leonard White

Leonard White was a United States representative from Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1787 and was a member of the state House of Representatives . He was elected as a Federalist to the Twelfth United States Congress...

Big Bend Gold Rush

The Big Bend Gold Rush was a gold rush on the upper Columbia River in the Colony of British Columbia in the mid-1860s....

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Marcus, Washington

Marcus is a town in Stevens County, Washington, United States. The population was 117 at the 2000 census and 183 at the 2010 census, a 56.4% increase over the 2000 census.-History:Marcus was named for Marcus Oppenheimer who settled in the area in 1863....

to La Porte, British Columbia; from 1871 supply ship for Walter Moberly

Walter Moberly (engineer)

Walter Moberly was a civil engineer and surveyor who played a large role in the early exploration and development of British Columbia, Canada, including discovering Eagle Pass, now used by the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Trans-Canada Highway.He was born in Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire, England...

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Hudson's Bay Company

Golden Hind

The Golden Hind was an English galleon best known for its circumnavigation of the globe between 1577 and 1580, captained by Sir Francis Drake...

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Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I of England awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581. He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. He also carried out the...

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Galleon

A galleon was a large, multi-decked sailing ship used primarily by European states from the 16th to 18th centuries. Whether used for war or commerce, they were generally armed with the demi-culverin type of cannon.-Etymology:...

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

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United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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Maritime Fur Trade

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United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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Halcyon

A halcyon is a mythical bird—often identified as a kingfisher—said to breed in a floating nest at sea during the winter solstice, during which time it charms the wind and waves into calm. The term originates from the Greek myth of Alcyone...

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Charles William Barkley

Charles William Barkley was a ship captain and maritime fur trader. He was born in Hertford, England, son of Charles Barkley....

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United Kingdom

Samuel Crowell

Samuel Crowell was a ship-captain and fur trader in the late 18th Century on the Pacific Northwest Coast. Crowell was master of the Hancock, a brig owned by Messrs...

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Brig

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United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

| Messrs. Crowell & Creighton, Boston
| first vessel to penetrate Masset Sound

Masset Sound

Masset Sound is a saltwater inlet on Graham Island, the largest and northernmost of the Haida Gwaii islands of the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada, connecting Masset Inlet in the island's interior with the open sea via Masset Harbour and McIntyre Bay to the Dixon Entrance. It averages in...

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Masset, British Columbia

Masset , formerly Massett, is a village in Haida Gwaii in British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the northern coast of Graham Island, the largest island in the archipelago, and is approximately west of mainland British Columbia. It is the western terminus of the Yellowhead Highway...

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Hazelton (sternwheeler)

The Hazelton was a sternwheeler that worked on the Skeena River in British Columbia, Canada from 1901 until 1912. Her first owner was Robert Cunningham who ran a freighting business that served the communities along the Skeena River....

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John Bonser (steamship captain)

Joseph Bucey
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Canada

| Robert Cunningham and Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company

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Skeena River

The Skeena River is the second longest river entirely within British Columbia, Canada . The Skeena is an important transportation artery, particularly for the Tsimshian and the Gitxsan - whose names mean "inside the Skeena River" and "people of the Skeena River" respectively, and also during the...

due to completion of GTP

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was a historical Canadian railway.A wholly owned subsidiary of the Grand Trunk Railway , the GTPR was constructed by GTR using loans provided by the Government of Canada. The company was formed in 1903 with a mandate to build west from Winnipeg, Manitoba to the...

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Prince Rupert, British Columbia

Prince Rupert is a port city in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It is the land, air, and water transportation hub of British Columbia's North Coast, and home to some 12,815 people .-History:...

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Hope (ship)

The Hope was an American brig class merchant ship involved in the Maritime Fur Trade along the northwest coast of North America and discovery in the Pacific Ocean...

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Joseph Ingraham

Joseph Ingraham was an American sailor and Maritime Fur Trader who discovered several islands of the Marquesas Islands while on his way to trade along the West Coast of North America...

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Brig

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United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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Maritime Fur Trade

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Quasi-War

The Quasi-War was an undeclared war fought mostly at sea between the United States and French Republic from 1798 to 1800. In the United States, the conflict was sometimes also referred to as the Franco-American War, the Pirate Wars, or the Half-War.-Background:The Kingdom of France had been a...

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Imperial Eagle (ship)

The Imperial Eagle was a 400 ton burthen British merchant ship that sailed on maritime fur trading ventures in the late 1780s. It was under the command of Captain Charles William Barkley until confiscated in India. The ship, Loudoun, was a decommissioned East Indiaman...

| Loudon, changed to Imperial Eagle when adopting the Austrian flag.
| Charles Barkley

Charles William Barkley

Charles William Barkley was a ship captain and maritime fur trader. He was born in Hertford, England, son of Charles Barkley....

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Full rigged ship

A full rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing vessel with three or more masts, all of them square rigged. A full rigged ship is said to have a ship rig....

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Austrian Empire

The Austrian Empire was a modern era successor empire, which was centered on what is today's Austria and which officially lasted from 1804 to 1867. It was followed by the Empire of Austria-Hungary, whose proclamation was a diplomatic move that elevated Hungary's status within the Austrian Empire...

| Private trading company; backers included John Meares

John Meares

John Meares was a navigator, explorer, and maritime fur trader, best known for his role in the Nootka Crisis, which brought Britain and Spain to the brink of war.- Career :...

| Maritime Fur Trade

Maritime Fur Trade

| Sailed for PNW under Charles Barclay in Nov. 1786. In Hawaii, May 1787. At Nootka Sound in 1788; largest ship to ever enter Friendly Cove. Ship confiscated in India around 1790, by East India Company or John Meares.
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East India Company

trade monopoly. First ship to sail up the western shore of Oahu

Oahu

Oahu or Oahu , known as "The Gathering Place", is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most populous of the islands in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The state capital Honolulu is located on the southeast coast...

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John Bonser (steamship captain)

1911-12
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Canada

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Port Essington, British Columbia

Port Essington was a cannery town on the south bank of the Skeena River estuary in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, between Prince Rupert and Terrace, and at the confluence of the Skeena and Ecstall Rivers. It was founded in 1871 by Robert Cunningham and Thomas Hankin and was for a time...

| last sternwheeler on Skeena River

Skeena River

Portugal

| John Meares

John Meares

John Meares was a navigator, explorer, and maritime fur trader, best known for his role in the Nootka Crisis, which brought Britain and Spain to the brink of war.- Career :...

and partners
| Maritime Fur Trade

Maritime Fur Trade

on the PNW coast, 1788-89. Captured with three others of Meares' ships by Spain in 1789, causing the Nootka Crisis

Nootka Crisis

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Maritime Fur Trade

vessel in late 1780s and early 1790s; British but registered as Portuguese to illegal evade East India Company

East India Company

Isabella (ship)

The Isabella was a ship that disappeared off the coast of Australia in 1824.The Isabella was anchored off the bar at Port Macquarie, New South Wales when the pilot boarded the ship and ordered his crew to return at 2pm to pick him up after crossing the bar...

United Kingdom

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Hudson's Bay Company

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Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....

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Maritime Fur Trade

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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Clo-oose, British Columbia

Clo-oose is a village of the Ditidaht people in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is located just southwest of the west end of Nitinat Lake in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve on the west coast of Vancouver Island, about south of Port Alberni...

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United Kingdom

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King George's Sound Company

| 1786-87, Maritime Fur Trade

Maritime Fur Trade

Kingfisher (sloop)

The Kingfisher was a sloop engaged in merchant trading out of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada to First Nations peoples around Vancouver Island and adjoining waters...

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Sloop

A sloop is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter....

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Punitive expedition

A punitive expedition is a military journey undertaken to punish a state or any group of persons outside the borders of the punishing state. It is usually undertaken in response to perceived disobedient or morally wrong behavior, but may be also be a covered revenge...

by HMS Sutlej

HMS Sutlej (1855)

HMS Sutlej was a Constance-class 50-gun fourth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.The class was designed by Sir William Symonds in 1843, and were the largest sailing frigates built for the Navy. Sutlej was ordered from Pembroke Dockyard on 26 March 1845, laid down in August 1847 and launched on 17...

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Komagata Maru

The Komagata Maru incident involved a Japanese steamship, the Komagata Maru, that sailed from Hong Kong to Shanghai, China; Yokohama, Japan; and then to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in 1914, carrying 376 passengers from Punjab, India. The 356 of passengers were not allowed to land in...

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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Kootenai (sternwheeler)

Kootenai was a sternwheel steamboat that ran on the Arrow Lakes in British Columbia from 1885 to 1895. Kootenai was the second sternwheeler to run on the Arrow Lakes...

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Canadian Pacific Railway

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Northport, Washington

Northport is a town in Stevens County, Washington, United States. The population was 295 at the 2010 census.-History:Northport was given its name since it was once the northernmost town on the Spokane Falls and Northern Railway...

to Farwell (Revelstoke, British Columbia

Revelstoke, British Columbia

Revelstoke is a city in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. It is located east of Vancouver, and west of Calgary, Alberta. The city is situated on the banks of the Columbia River just south of the Revelstoke Dam and near its confluence with the Illecillewaet River...

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Lady Washington

Lady Washington is a ship name that is shared by at least 4 different small wooden merchant sailing vessels during two different time periods. They should not be confused with USS Lady Washington. The original sailed for about 10 years in the 18th century. A somewhat updated modern replica was...

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John Kendrick (American sea captain)

John Kendrick was an American sea captain, both during the American Revolutionary War and the exploration and maritime fur trading of the Pacific Northwest alongside his partner Robert Gray.-Early life:...

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Sloop

A sloop is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter....

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Brig

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United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

Columbia Rediviva

Columbia Rediviva was a privately owned ship under the command of John Kendrick, along with Captain Robert Gray, best known for going to the Pacific Northwest for the maritime fur trade. The "Rediviva" was added to her name upon a rebuilding in 1787...

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Labouchere (paddle steamer)

The Labouchere was a paddle steamer in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company,built in 1858 at Green's in Blackwall, London, England. Under the command of Captain J. Trivett it was mostly in service in British Columbia and the rest of the Pacific Northwest in the 1850s and 1860s...

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John Swanson

John Swanson may refer to:* John Swanson , American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient* John August Swanson , American visual artist* John A. Swanson, American engineer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist...

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Great Britain

Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

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Hudson's Bay Company

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Point Reyes

Point Reyes is a prominent cape on the Pacific coast of northern California. It is located in Marin County approximately WNW of San Francisco. The term is often applied to the Point Reyes Peninsula, the region bounded by Tomales Bay on the northeast and Bolinas Lagoon on the southeast...

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Fraser Canyon Gold Rush

The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, began in 1858 after gold was discovered on the Thompson River in British Columbia at its confluence with the Nicoamen River. This was a few miles upstream from the Thompson's confluence with the Fraser River at present-day Lytton...

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Douglas Road

The Douglas Road, aka the Lillooet Trail, Harrison Trail or Lakes Route, was a goldrush-era transportation route from the British Columbia Coast to the Interior...

United Kingdom

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Hudson's Bay Company

SS Leviathan

SS Leviathan, originally built as SS Vaterland, was an ocean liner which regularly sailed the North Atlantic briefly in 1914 and from 1917 to 1934...

Loriot (ship)

Loriot was an American sailing ship involved in exploration of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America. This brig took a member of a United States presidential expedition to survey land and the inhabitants of the area in the 1830s...

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William A. Slacum

William A. Slacum was an American sailor and diplomat. He served as a purser in the United States Navy and received a Presidential commission to gather information on the Oregon Country. At that time the region was under the jurisdiction of both the United States and Great Britain...

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United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

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United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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Maritime Fur Trade

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The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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USS Massachusetts (1845)

USS Massachusetts was a steamer acquired by the U.S. Navy prior to the American Civil War. She was used by the U.S. War Department as a transport during the Mexican-American War and traveled widely, including transiting Cape Horn several times as part of her official duties on both sides of the...

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Puget Sound War

The Puget Sound War was an armed conflict that took place in the Puget Sound area of the state of Washington in 1855–56, between the United States Military, local militias and members of the Native American tribes of the Nisqually, Muckleshoot, Puyallup, and Klickitat...

Douglas Road

The Douglas Road, aka the Lillooet Trail, Harrison Trail or Lakes Route, was a goldrush-era transportation route from the British Columbia Coast to the Interior...

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Fraser Canyon Gold Rush

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Lillooet Lake

Lillooet Lake is a lake in British Columbia, Canada about 25 km in length and about 33.5 square kilometres in area. It is about 95 km downstream from the source of the Lillooet River, which resumes its course after leaving Little Lillooet Lake, aka Tenas Lake...

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United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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Maritime Fur Trade

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Mexicana (ship)

The Mexicana was a topsail schooner built in 1791 by the Spanish Navy at San Blas, New Spain. It was nearly identical to the Sutil, also built at San Blas later in 1791...

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Cayetano Valdés y Flores

Cayetano Valdés y Flores Bazán was a commander of the Spanish Navy, explorer, and captain general who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, fighting for both sides at different times due to the changing fortunes of Spain in the conflict...

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Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

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Brig

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Spain

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Spanish Navy

Mount Royal (sternwheeler)

The Mount Royal was a sternwheeler that worked on the Skeena River and Stikine Rivers in British Columbia, Canada, from 1902 until 1907. She was named after Lord Strathcona who was also known as Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal....

Canada

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Hudson's Bay Company

Moyie (sternwheeler)

The Moyie is a paddle steamer sternwheeler that worked on Kootenay Lake in British Columbia, Canada from 1898 until 1957.After her nearly sixty years of service, she was sold to the town of Kaslo and restored...

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Canadian Pacific Railway

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| launched October 22, 1898. taken out of service April 27, 1957
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Kaslo, British Columbia

Kaslo is a village in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada, located on the west shore of Kootenay Lake. Known for its great natural beauty, it is a member municipality of the Central Kootenay Regional District...

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John Bonser (steamship captain)

George Ritchie
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Canada

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Quesnel, British Columbia

-Demographics:Quesnel had a population of 9,326 people in 2006, which was a decrease of 7.1% from the 2001 census count. The median household income in 2005 for Quesnel was $54,044, which is slightly above the British Columbia provincial average of $52,709....

| Tore apart in ice jam at Cottonwood Canyon April 1911
| First sternwheeler to navigate the Grand Canyon of the Fraser

Grand Canyon of the Fraser

United Kingdom

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Hudson's Bay Company

John Meares

John Meares was a navigator, explorer, and maritime fur trader, best known for his role in the Nootka Crisis, which brought Britain and Spain to the brink of war.- Career :...

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Snow (ship)

A snow or snaw is a sailing vessel. A type of brig , snows were primarily used as merchant ships, but saw war service as well...

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| Bengal Fur Company (John Henry Cox

John Henry Cox

John Henry Cox , charted Great Oyster Bay Maria Island and Marion Bay on the east coast of Tasmania in 1789, aboard his armed brig Mercury.- Early years :...

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| 1786, sailed from Calcutta

Kolkata

Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

to Alaska. Wintered Prince William Sound

Prince William Sound

, trapped in ice; 23 men die. May 1787, rescued by George Dixon of the Queen Charlotte. October 1787, arrived at Macau.
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East India Company

Sloop

A sloop is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter....

or schooner

Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

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United Kingdom

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John Meares

John Meares was a navigator, explorer, and maritime fur trader, best known for his role in the Nootka Crisis, which brought Britain and Spain to the brink of war.- Career :...

and partners
| First non-indigenous ship built in Pacific Northwest

Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest is a region in northwestern North America, bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains on the east. Definitions of the region vary and there is no commonly agreed upon boundary, even among Pacific Northwesterners. A common concept of the...

; captured by Spain during Nootka Crisis

Nootka Crisis

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Operator (sternwheeler)

The Operator sternwheeler was one of five sternwheelers built for the use on the Skeena River by Foley, Welch and Stewart for construction work on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. The other four were the Conveyor, the Skeena, the Distributor and the Omineca...

Canada

| Foley, Welch and Stewart

Foley, Welch and Stewart

Foley, Welch and Stewart was an early 20th century American-Canadian railroad contracting company.They built miles of track for the Great Northern Railway, Northern Pacific Railroad, Canadian Pacific Railway, Canadian Northern Railway, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Pacific Great Eastern Railway...

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Skeena River

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Fraser River

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Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

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Adventure (ship)

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

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The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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SS Pacific

The SS Pacific was a 876-ton sidewheel steamer built in 1851 most notable for its sinking in 1875 as a result of a collision southwest of Cape Flattery, Washington. The Pacific had an estimated 275 passengers and crew aboard when it sank. Only two survived. Among the casualties were several notable...

Otter (steamship)

The Otter was the second steamship to operate in the Pacific Northwest of North America, following its sister ship and twin, the much more famous Beaver...

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Hudson's Bay Company

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United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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Maritime Fur Trade

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The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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Cape Flattery

Cape Flattery may refer to:* Cape Flattery * Cape Flattery , between North Direction Island, South Direction Island and Three Islands...

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Phoenix (Moore)

The Phoenix was a ship of the British East India Company, involved in the sea otter trade in the Pacific. Her captain was Hugh Moore, and her home port was Bombay....

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....

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Maritime Fur Trade

James Johnstone (explorer)

James Johnstone was a British naval officer and explorer. He is noted for having served as sailing master of the armed tender HMS Chatham and later acting lieutenant during George Vancouver’s 1791-95 expedition to the Pacific Northwest...

King George's Sound Company

and joint company with John Meares and partners
| Maritime Fur Trade

Maritime Fur Trade

in the Pacific Northwest, late 1780s and early 1790s
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Archibald Menzies

Archibald Menzies was a Scottish surgeon, botanist and naturalist.- Life and career :Menzies was born at Easter Stix in the parish of Weem, in Perthshire. While working with his elder brother William at the Royal Botanic Gardens, he drew the attention of Dr John Hope, professor of botany at...

Fraser Canyon Gold Rush

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Douglas Road

The Douglas Road, aka the Lillooet Trail, Harrison Trail or Lakes Route, was a goldrush-era transportation route from the British Columbia Coast to the Interior...

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Lillooet Lake

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Steamship Prince Rupert

The Grand Trunk Steamship Prince Rupert, and her sister ship the Prince George, served the coast of British Columbia and Alaska. Originally these vessels served regular runs from Seattle to Victoria, Vancouver, Prince Rupert and Stewart Alaska. Seattle and Victoria were dropped from the route...

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Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

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Ripple Rock

Ripple Rock was an underwater, twin-peaked mountain in the Seymour Narrows of the Discovery Passage in British Columbia, Canada, a part of the marine trade route from Vancouver and coastal points north. The nearest town was Campbell River...

La Princesa (1778)

La Princesa was a Spanish frigate or corvette built at the Spanish Navy base at San Blas and launched in 1778. She is sometimes called a frigate and sometimes a corvette...

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Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra

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Esteban José Martínez Fernández y Martínez de la Sierra

Esteban José Martínez Fernández y Martínez de la Sierra, or simply Esteban José Martínez was a Spanish navigator and explorer, native of Seville...

, Salvador Fidalgo

Salvador Fidalgo

Salvador Fidalgo y Lopegarcía was a Spanish explorer who commanded an exploring expedition for Spain to Alaska and the Pacific Northwest during the late 18th century.-Early career:...

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Jacinto Caamaño

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Corvette

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Spain

| Spanish Navy

Spanish Navy

Dept. of San Blas

San Blas, Nayarit

| 1779, sailed to Alaska under Bodega y Quadra. 1788, sailed to Alaska under Martínez. 1792 used to occupy Neah Bay

Neah Bay, Washington

Neah Bay is a census-designated place on the Makah Indian reservation in Clallam County, Washington, United States. The population was 794 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Neah Bay is located at ....

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Alta California

Alta California was a province and territory in the Viceroyalty of New Spain and later a territory and department in independent Mexico. The territory was created in 1769 out of the northern part of the former province of Las Californias, and consisted of the modern American states of California,...

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Princess Royal (sloop)

Princess Royal was a British merchant ship that sailed on fur trading ventures in the late 1780s, and was captured at Nootka Sound by Esteban José Martínez of Spain during the Nootka Crisis of 1789...

United Kingdom

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Spain

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King George's Sound Company

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Spanish Navy

Dept. of San Blas

San Blas, Nayarit

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Princess Sophia (steamer)

The SS Princess Sophia was a steel-built coastal passenger liner in the coastal service fleet of the Canadian Pacific Railway . Along with the SS Princess Adelaide the SS Princess Alice and the SS Princess Mary, the SS Princess Sophia was one of four sister ships built for CPR during 1910-1911.On...

William Bligh

Vice Admiral William Bligh FRS RN was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. A notorious mutiny occurred during his command of HMAV Bounty in 1789; Bligh and his loyal men made a remarkable voyage to Timor, after being set adrift in the Bounty's launch by the mutineers...

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| second breadfruit expedition to Tahiti under Capt.William Bligh 1791-1793;
exploration and survey of East Asia under Ltd. William R. Broughton 1795-1797
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King George's Sound Company

| 1786-87, maritime fur trading

Maritime Fur Trade

in Pacific Northwest with King George under Nathaniel Portlock. Fourth ship to visit Hawaii, May 1786.
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Queen Charlotte Islands

Haida Gwaii , formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands, is an archipelago on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada. Haida Gwaii consists of two main islands: Graham Island in the north, and Moresby Island in the south, along with approximately 150 smaller islands with a total landmass of...

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Quesnel (sternwheeler)

The Quesnel sternwheeler was first launched in May 1909 at Quesnel, British Columbia to serve the Soda Creek to Fort George route of the upper Fraser River....

Canada

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Resolution (ship)

The Resolution was an American trading vessel whose crew were massacred by Haida chief Cumshewa and his followers in 1794, at Cuomo Inlet near Moresby Island in the Queen Charlotte Islands of the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada.-References:**...

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The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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Maritime Fur Trade

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Cumshewa

Cumshewa, also Go'mshewah, Cummashawa, Cummashawaas, Cumchewas, Gumshewa, was an important chief of the Haida people of the Queen Charlotte Islands on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada. His name is believed to be of either Kwak'wala or Heiltsuk origin, meaning "rich at the mouth of the...

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Cumshewa Inlet

Cumshewa Inlet, also recorded or referred to in exploration logs as Cumchewas Harbour and Tooscondolth Sound, is a large inlet on the east coast of Moresby Island in the Queen Charlotte Islands of the North Coast of British Columbia...

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Robert C Hammond (sternwheeler)

The Robert C Hammond was the last sternwheeler built for service on the upper Fraser and Nechako Rivers. She was owned by the Fort George Lake and River Transportation Company, a partnership of George Hammond and his brother...

Canada

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police , literally ‘Royal Gendarmerie of Canada’; colloquially known as The Mounties, and internally as ‘The Force’) is the national police force of Canada, and one of the most recognized of its kind in the world. It is unique in the world as a national, federal,...

Gonzalo López de Haro

Gonzalo López de Haro was a Spanish explorer, notable for his expeditions in the Pacific Northwest in the late 18th century....

, Salvador Fidalgo

Salvador Fidalgo

Salvador Fidalgo y Lopegarcía was a Spanish explorer who commanded an exploring expedition for Spain to Alaska and the Pacific Northwest during the late 18th century.-Early career:...

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Francisco de Eliza

Francisco de Eliza y Reventa was a Spanish naval officer, navigator, and explorer. He is remembered mainly for his work in the Pacific Northwest...

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Packet ship

A "packet ship" was originally a vessel employed to carry post office mail packets to and from British embassies, colonies and outposts. In sea transport, a packet service is a regular, scheduled service, carrying freight and passengers...

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Spain

| Spanish Navy

Spanish Navy

Dept. of San Blas

San Blas, Nayarit

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Unalaska, Alaska

Unalaska is a city in the Aleutians West Census Area of the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. Unalaska is located on Unalaska Island and neighboring Amaknak Island in the Aleutian Islands off of mainland Alaska....

in 1788, under Haro.
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San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining from approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean...

by Juan de Ayala

Juan de Ayala

Juan Manuel de Ayala y Aranza was a Spanish naval officer who played a significant role in the European exploration of California, since he and the crew of his ship the San Carlos are the first Europeans known to have entered the San Francisco Bay.Ayala was born in Osuna, Andalucía...

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José María Narváez

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Sloop

A sloop is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter....

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Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

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Spain

| Spanish Navy

Spanish Navy

Dept. of San Blas

San Blas, Nayarit

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Nootka Crisis

José María Narváez

, Juan Carrasco

Juan Carrasco

Juan Carrasco was an apologist, of Marrano parentage. He was born in Madrid and is sometimes called Carrasco of Madrid.Carrasco had first been an Augustin friar at Burgos and an excellent preacher. Later, on a journey to Rome, he became a convert to Judaism at Livorno...

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Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

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| Spain

Spain

| Spanish Navy

Spanish Navy

Dept. of San Blas

San Blas, Nayarit

Spain

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Spanish Navy

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Juan José Pérez Hernández

Juan José Pérez Hernández , often simply Juan Pérez, was an 18th century Spanish explorer. He was the first European to sight, examine, name, and record the islands near present-day British Columbia, Canada...

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Bruno de Heceta

Bruno de Heceta y Dudagoitia was a Spanish Basque explorer of the Pacific Northwest. Born in Bilbao of an old Basque family, he was sent by the Viceroy of New Spain, Antonio María Bucareli y Ursúa, to explore the area north of Alta California in response to information that there were colonial...

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Spanish Navy

Dept. of San Blas

San Blas, Nayarit

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USS Saranac (1848)

USS Saranac – a sloop of war -- was laid down in 1847 during the Mexican-American War; however, by the time she completed sea trials, the war was over. She was commissioned in 1850 and saw service protecting American interests in the Atlantic Ocean as well as the Pacific Ocean. When the American...

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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Ripple Rock

White Pass and Yukon Route

The White Pass and Yukon Route is a Canadian and U.S. Class II narrow gauge railroad linking the port of Skagway, Alaska, with Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon. An isolated system, it has no direct connection to any other railroad. Equipment, freight and passengers are ferried by ship through the...

(John Irving Nav. Co.

John Irving (steamship captain)

John Irving was a steamship captain in British Columbia, Canada. He began on the Fraser River at the age of 18 and would become one of the most famous and prosperous riverboat captains of the era...

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Atlin Lake

Atlin Lake is a lake in northwestern British Columbia and is that province's largest natural lake. The northern tip of the lake is in the Yukon, as is Little Atlin Lake. However, most of the lake lies within the Atlin District of British Columbia...

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Sea Bird Island:* Alternate name for Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay* Sea Bird Island , home of the Seabird Island First Nation...

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James Hanna

James Hanna was the first European to sail to the Pacific northwest to trade in furs. This Maritime fur trade was an important factor in the early history of the Pacific Northwest and the westward expansion of the United States and Canada....

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Brig

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United Kingdom

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John Henry Cox

John Henry Cox , charted Great Oyster Bay Maria Island and Marion Bay on the east coast of Tasmania in 1789, aboard his armed brig Mercury.- Early years :...

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East India Company

| Conducted the first purely commercial Maritime Fur Trade

Maritime Fur Trade

James Hanna

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Snow (ship)

A snow or snaw is a sailing vessel. A type of brig , snows were primarily used as merchant ships, but saw war service as well...

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United Kingdom

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Macau

Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...

to Nootka Sound

Nootka Sound

and explored Queen Charlotte Sound and Clayoquot Sound

Clayoquot Sound

Snow (ship)

A snow or snaw is a sailing vessel. A type of brig , snows were primarily used as merchant ships, but saw war service as well...

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United Kingdom

| Bengal Fur Company (John Henry Cox

John Henry Cox

John Henry Cox , charted Great Oyster Bay Maria Island and Marion Bay on the east coast of Tasmania in 1789, aboard his armed brig Mercury.- Early years :...

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| Sailed from Calcutta

Kolkata

Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

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| Foundered during a storm in the Gulf of Alaska

Gulf of Alaska

The Gulf of Alaska is an arm of the Pacific Ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast of Alaska, stretching from the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island in the west to the Alexander Archipelago in the east, where Glacier Bay and the Inside Passage are found.The entire shoreline of the Gulf is...

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Skeena (sternwheeler)

The Skeena sternwheeler was one of five sternwheelers built for the use on the Skeena River by Foley, Welch and Stewart for construction work on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway from 1909 until 1911. She was built at Robertson's yard in Coal Harbour, Vancouver, in 1908. The other four were the...

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Paddle steamer

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Canada

| Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

1908-1914 Charles Seymour 1914-1925
| Last sternwheeler on lower Fraser River

Fraser River

| Launched in 1909,
| sold and converted to barge in 1925
| Delivered meat for Pat Burns

Patrick Burns (politician)

Patrick Burns was a Canadian rancher, meat packer, businessman, senator, and philanthropist.A self-made man, he built one of the world's largest integrated meat-packing empires, P. Burns & Co., and was one of the wealthiest Canadians of his time...

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Skuzzy (sternwheeler)

The Skuzzy sternwheeler was built by Canadian Pacific Railway contractor Andrew Onderdonk at Spuzzum, British Columbia, and was launched on the Fraser River on May 4, 1882....

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Paddle steamer

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Fraser River

from Hells Gate Canyon

Hells Gate, British Columbia

Hell's Gate is a 35 metre narrowing of British Columbia's Fraser River, located immediately downstream of Boston Bar in the southern Fraser Canyon. The towering rock walls of the Fraser River plunge toward each other forcing the waters through a passage only wide...

to Boston Bar

Boston Bar, British Columbia

Boston Bar is an unincorporated town in the Fraser Canyon of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was not named for an organization of Massachusetts lawyers but dates from the time of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush...

| Launched on May 4, 1882, at Spuzzum

Spuzzum, British Columbia

Spuzzum is an unincorporated settlement in British Columbia, Canada. Because it is on the Trans-Canada Highway, approximately 50 km north of the community of Hope, it is often referred to as being "beyond Hope"...

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Lytton, British Columbia

Lytton in British Columbia, Canada, sits at the confluence of the Thompson River and Fraser River on the east side of the Fraser. The location has been inhabited by the Nlaka'pamux people for over 10,000 years, and is one of the earliest locations settled by non-natives in the Southern Interior of...

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Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra

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Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

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Spanish Navy

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San Blas, Nayarit

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Inside Passage

The Inside Passage is a coastal route for oceangoing vessels along a network of passages which weave through the islands on the Pacific coast of North America. The route extends from southeastern Alaska, in the United States, through western British Columbia, in Canada, to northwestern Washington...

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Klondike Gold Rush

The Klondike Gold Rush, also called the Yukon Gold Rush, the Alaska Gold Rush and the Last Great Gold Rush, was an attempt by an estimated 100,000 people to travel to the Klondike region the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1897 and 1899 in the hope of successfully prospecting for gold...

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United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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Maritime Fur Trade

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The Sutil was a brig-rigged schooner built in 1791 by the Spanish Navy at San Blas, New Spain. It was nearly identical to the Mexicana, also built at San Blas in 1791...

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Dionisio Alcalá Galiano

Dionisio Alcalá Galiano was a Spanish naval officer, cartographer, and explorer. He mapped various coastlines in Europe and the Americas with unprecedented accuracy, using new technology such as chronometers...

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Spanish Navy

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San Blas, Nayarit

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White Pass and Yukon Route

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Atlin Lake

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Atlin, British Columbia

Atlin is a community in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, located on the eastern shore of Atlin Lake. In addition to continued gold-mining activity, Atlin is a tourist destination for fishing, hiking and Heliskiing. As of 2004, there are 450 permanent residents.The name comes from Áa Tlein,...

Name derived from Tlingit phrase which means village of gardens.
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Steamboats of the Upper Fraser River in British Columbia

Twelve paddlewheel steamboats plied the upper Fraser River in British Columbia from 1863 until 1921. They were used for a variety of purposes: working on railroad construction, delivering mail, promoting real estate in infant townsites and bringing settlers in to a new frontier. They served the...

Spain

Royal Engineers

The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers , and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army....

Three Brothers

-Places:* Three Brothers , group of islands in the Great Chagos Bank* Tri Brata , group of cliffs in the Avacha Bay of Kamchatka* Three Brothers, Okhotsk Sea, group of islands in the Sea of Okhotsk...

Canada

Tonquin

The Tonquin was an American merchant ship involved with the Maritime Fur Trade of the early 19th Century. The ship was used by John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company to establish fur trading outposts on the Northwest Coast of North America, including Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River...

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The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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American Fur Company

The American Fur Company was founded by John Jacob Astor in 1808. The company grew to monopolize the fur trade in the United States by 1830, and became one of the largest businesses in the country. The company was one the first great trusts in American business...

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Cariboo Gold Rush

The Cariboo Gold Rush was a gold rush in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Although the first gold discovery was made in 1859 at Horsefly Creek, followed by more strikes at Keithley Creek and Antler Horns lake in 1860, the actual rush did not begin until 1861, when these discoveries were...

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A sloop is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter....

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United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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Ninstints

Ninstints is the usual name in English for SGang Gwaay Llanagaay , a village site of the Haida people and part of the Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site in Haida Gwaii on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada...

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Hudson's Bay Company

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

Maritime Fur Trade

Brigantine

In sailing, a brigantine or hermaphrodite brig is a vessel with two masts, only the forward of which is square rigged.-Origins of the term:...

| 110 tons, crew of 22 men, "mostly negros of Julu", i.e., Sulu

Sulu

Sulu is an autonomous island province of the Philippines located in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao . Its capital is Jolo and occupies the middle group of islands of the Sulu Archipelago, between Basilan and Tawi-Tawi...

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Bengal

Bengal is a historical and geographical region in the northeast region of the Indian Subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. Today, it is mainly divided between the sovereign land of People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, although some regions of the previous...

Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

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United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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Maritime Fur Trade

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Victoria (sternwheeler)

The Victoria sternwheeler was a passenger and freight steamer that was built for service on the Soda Creek to Quesnel route on the upper Fraser River in British Columbia....

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Alexandria, British Columbia

Alexandria or Fort Alexandria is a National Historic Site of Canada on the Fraser River in British Columbia, and was the end of the Old Cariboo Road and the Cariboo Wagon Road...

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Hudson's Bay Company

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Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

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External links

Archibald Menzies: An Inventory of Ships off the Northwest Coast, 1792, Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington

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