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Post by bcfcbccsscollector on Apr 25, 2006 9:54:45 GMT -8
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Post by Fenklebaum on Apr 25, 2006 10:36:04 GMT -8
Oh my God
or, in pukka:
Holy Cow.
Those are incredible.
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Post by Neil on Apr 25, 2006 10:44:41 GMT -8
My vote for the all time grandest ship on the BC coast: the Princess Victoria, before her rebuild into a car ferry. Always thought she was magnificent.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Apr 25, 2006 13:50:35 GMT -8
I admit that I'm relatively naive about the history of BC Coastal Steamships, but I'm surprised by the number of different ships in Darren's slideshow.
so many ships, so many names.
thanks for your scanning work Darren. !
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Post by bcfcbccsscollector on Apr 25, 2006 14:16:57 GMT -8
No problem, I'll keep adding as I get them. I'm still on the hunt for the Beatrice, Ena, Irene and Royal to name a few and I have a source that may be able to help me find them. The best RPPC's are the ones that were taken with the old "Folding Pocket Kodak" cameras, or postcard cameras. So many one of a kind views to the past. Of course, those ones come with a BIG pricetag.............
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Post by Retrovision on Apr 25, 2006 16:24:19 GMT -8
My vote for the all time grandest ship on the BC coast: the Princess Victoria, before her rebuild into a car ferry. Always thought she was magnificent. She's always been, and always will be the true flagship of our coast, IMHO, regardless of alterations. I admit that I'm relatively naive about the history of BC Coastal Steamships, but I'm surprised by the number of different ships in Darren's slideshow. so many ships, so many names. thanks for your scanning work Darren. ! If you have the time, attention-span (there's a lot of technical info that you can skim-through), and interest in the complete history of our coast's shipping (mainly passenger) history, then I've got a book for you: The Princess Story: A Century and a Half of West Coast Shipping
By Norman R. Hacking and W. Kaye LambThis is a novel-sized (with many pictures, as well), 350 page, book about the history of B.C.s coastal shipping is, in fact, a comprehensive history of much of our fine province. Don't be overwhelmed by the size of the book, though. It is actually divided almost exactly in two; the first half (written by Norman R. Hacking) is devoted to the period of time between the Hudson's Bay Company's establishment of Fort Victoria and the Klondike Gold Rush, and the second (written by W. Kaye Lamb) is devoted to the time from the Canadian Pacific Railway taking over the Hudson Bay Company's Canadian Pacific Navigation Company to 1974, when the book was written. |
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Post by Retrovision on Apr 25, 2006 17:59:37 GMT -8
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Post by Queen of Nanaimo Teen on Apr 25, 2006 20:00:24 GMT -8
Excellent photos darren, thanks for posting them!
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Post by bcfcbccsscollector on May 18, 2006 20:55:31 GMT -8
My vote for the all time grandest ship on the BC coast: the Princess Victoria, before her rebuild into a car ferry. Always thought she was magnificent. She's always been, and always will be the true flagship of our coast, IMHO, regardless of alterations. I admit that I'm relatively naive about the history of BC Coastal Steamships, but I'm surprised by the number of different ships in Darren's slideshow. so many ships, so many names. thanks for your scanning work Darren. ! If you have the time, attention-span (there's a lot of technical info that you can skim-through), and interest in the complete history of our coast's shipping (mainly passenger) history, then I've got a book for you: The Princess Story: A Century and a Half of West Coast Shipping
By Norman R. Hacking and W. Kaye LambThis is a novel-sized (with many pictures, as well), 350 page, book about the history of B.C.s coastal shipping is, in fact, a comprehensive history of much of our fine province. Don't be overwhelmed by the size of the book, though. It is actually divided almost exactly in two; the first half (written by Norman R. Hacking) is devoted to the period of time between the Hudson's Bay Company's establishment of Fort Victoria and the Klondike Gold Rush, and the second (written by W. Kaye Lamb) is devoted to the time from the Canadian Pacific Railway taking over the Hudson Bay Company's Canadian Pacific Navigation Company to 1974, when the book was written. Another two books cerainly worth the read are "The Pacific Princesses" and "Those Beautiful Coastal Liners", both by Robert Turner. A splendid history of West Coast maritime history, focusing on the Canadian Pacific B.C. Coastal Steamships. |
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Post by Neil on May 18, 2006 21:39:51 GMT -8
...... good reads, indeed, and on a less known and somewhat smaller presence on our coast, you might pick up "Prince Ships of Northern BC", the Grand Trunk Pacific and CNR ships. A thin but interesting volume by Norman Hacking (Heritage House).
Does anyone remember his regular Province column on maritime matters? Alan Daniels covered the harbour for the Sun- something Canwest doesn't think is important enough to do these days. I guess shipping news is no news in this port city, at least to the Winnipeg media mafia.
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