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Post by Low Light Mike on Nov 7, 2009 15:37:17 GMT -8
Here's the Princess Elaine plaque, on the Nanaimo waterfront:   |
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Post by Ferryman on Dec 4, 2010 23:24:28 GMT -8
A blast of nostalgia aboard the Princess Elaine from Vancouver to Nanaimo in the 1950s.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Dec 4, 2010 23:47:17 GMT -8
A blast of nostalgia aboard the Princess Elaine from Vancouver to Nanaimo in the 1950s. Wow ! Thanks for posting that gem.  |
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Post by lmtengs on Dec 5, 2010 1:37:11 GMT -8
Amazing footage, Ferryman! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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Post by Scott on Dec 5, 2010 15:18:50 GMT -8
A blast of nostalgia aboard the Princess Elaine from Vancouver to Nanaimo in the 1950s. Nice! Thanks for that. Takes you way back in time. Enjoyed the whole thing:) Amazing how things have changed in 60 years... the cars, ferries, buildings, playground equipment.... camping is almost the same (except for the free firewood! And the easier-to-put-up tents ). And think about how much more difficult it would have been to produce that footage, compared to today!  |
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Post by stingray on Dec 6, 2010 21:37:15 GMT -8
I would like to point out a few things in this film involving the segment taking place on the Princess Elaine. The first large ship she passes is the Princess of Nanaimo. The second large ship she passes is either the Princess Joan or Elizabeth, that worked mostly as the Vancouver-Victoria night-boats, but, also they a did round trip a day on Vancouver-Nanaimo route every other day during the summer months. By what I see as she approaches Nanaimo, is that the berth for the Princess of Vancouver and the other rail barges is completed, meaning that the film was likely made in the summer 1955, 56, 57, or 58, (Note: 1959 is out of the running since both the Joan and Elizabeth where removed from service earlier that year.) Sting Ray  |
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Post by Mill Bay on Mar 9, 2011 15:18:03 GMT -8
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Post by Low Light Mike on Dec 19, 2011 19:25:05 GMT -8
Postcard of CP's Princess Elaine - "copyright Kodachrome card" by "The Coast Publishing Co, Vancouver". - no mention of the photographer's name  |
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Post by Variable Pitch on Dec 21, 2011 11:34:36 GMT -8
An older Gowen, Sutton RPPC similar to Steve's above, years before they tinted them. Postmarked 1940 on the back..  |
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Post by EGfleet on Oct 18, 2012 10:31:58 GMT -8
A period hand-tinted postcard of the Princess Elaine. Colorizing black and white photos is nothing new.   |
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Post by EGfleet on Sept 11, 2013 6:21:50 GMT -8
Recent acquisition--nice RPPC of my favorite, the Princess Elaine.
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Post by EGfleet on Dec 14, 2013 10:54:53 GMT -8
A matchbook cover revealing a neat little bit of the Princess Elaine's mostly forgotten post-CPR history.  |
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Post by mrdot on Dec 14, 2013 15:36:43 GMT -8
:)evergreen fleet's new day room features a veritable feast for the eyes, and I particularlly refer to the Kaloke illustrations! this early 1950's rebuild was a real gem created out of a marine oldtimer, and was a day when we did good shipbuilding in BC. :)mrdot.
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Post by EGfleet on Feb 1, 2016 13:17:06 GMT -8
This was a bonus slide in a lot I purchased and was not expecting. (I like this kind of bonus!) I'm not sure where exactly it was taken. The slide is stamped August, 1959.  |
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Post by Nick on Feb 1, 2016 13:39:07 GMT -8
This was a bonus slide in a lot I purchased and was not expecting. (I like this kind of bonus!) I'm not sure where exactly it was taken. The slide is stamped August, 1959. I'm thinking Nanaimo Harbour? Looks like the cliffs of Gabriola Island in the background, possibly. Just a guess... |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Feb 1, 2016 14:04:59 GMT -8
This was a bonus slide in a lot I purchased and was not expecting. (I like this kind of bonus!) I'm not sure where exactly it was taken. The slide is stamped August, 1959. I'm thinking Nanaimo Harbour? Looks like the cliffs of Gabriola Island in the background, possibly. Just a guess... I'm looking at the exact same view (minus the Princess Elaine and the old seaplane dock) from my window now. I am in Nanaimo. This is 100% Nanaimo. (cue someone to reply "you could be right...") and 100% lovely. |
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Post by mrdot on Feb 1, 2016 20:39:54 GMT -8
as the onetime Queen of Nanaimo, it seems appropriate that she is in those waters! mr.dot.
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Post by EGfleet on Jun 9, 2016 13:46:47 GMT -8
Vintage slide taken in 1958 showing a nice stern shot of the Princess Elaine. Today she'd be in violation of clean air standards.  |
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Post by mrdot on Jun 10, 2016 14:31:05 GMT -8
just another great post by evergreen, and pretty clean burning by my standards!mr.dot.
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Post by trainguru on Nov 6, 2019 15:37:26 GMT -8
Okay, so this link is into the Chung Collection of UBC. On Page 80-81 of Maggie and Pat's propulsion system, they have the particulars of the 1958 Princess Fleet. In the Engines group, it lists Elaine's engines as having 7,000 horsepower for her (by 1928, Old-Fashioned) Triple-Screw Turbine layout (much like the 1st Patrica, and other Clyde Steamers, like the TS Queen Mary.). Practically every other resource, lists Elaine's horsepower, as 4,000 HP. Where does this discrepancy come from, and who's accurate? Canadian Pacific, or the Historians?
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