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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 19, 2006 20:11:36 GMT -8
Sean:
You could also go to the Vernon museum, as they might have some books there for sale.....as well as other info. The "Okanagan Landing" area of Vernon is named "landing" for a reason....so there's likely a lot of lake-boat history in Vernon, as well as Kelowna & Penticton.
You've likely seen the Sicamous ship at the beach in Penticton....
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Post by Queen of Nanaimo Teen on Sept 19, 2006 20:56:06 GMT -8
I have already purchased the book "sternwheelers and steam tugs" and i am waiting fo it to come in the mail. I will probably buy that other one when I have a little more money!
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Post by Emory Lindgard on Jan 5, 2008 17:23:07 GMT -8
Here is article on Steamboats of the Yukon. It from theArchaeology Magazine for Dec 2007 www.archaeology.org/0711/abstracts/yukon.html Texas A&M has an Institute of Nautical Archaelogy are tying to document the vessels before they disappear. One of them is near Lake LaBarge. Emory on Whidbey ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png)
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Post by Low Light Mike on Nov 18, 2009 21:36:12 GMT -8
The vessel in the photos above is the SS Klondike. ![](http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k268/wetcoastkidjst/River%20-%20Lake%20Boats/1-KlondikeWhitehorse-3Jul08jst.jpg) ![](http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k268/wetcoastkidjst/River%20-%20Lake%20Boats/SSKlondikehistplaque-3Jul2008jst.jpg) For more info go to: www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/yt/ssklondike/index_e.aspFor more photos taken on my recent trip to northern BC, the Yukon & Alaska go the lake and river boat section of my photo site s90.photobucket.com/albums/k268/wetcoastkidjst/River%20-%20Lake%20Boats/Here are a couple of samples: SS Tarahne; BYNC, Atlin - 1 July 2008 SS Tutshi remains (most of this vessel was lost in 1996 due to fire) - Carcross, Yukon - 7 July 2008 All vessels were once operated on either the Yukon River, Tagish Lake, or Atlin Lake by BYN (the British Yukon Navigation Company, a division of White Pass & Yukon Route. All photos are © jst.
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Post by lmtengs on Feb 26, 2011 17:40:49 GMT -8
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Post by Low Light Mike on Apr 5, 2011 6:37:37 GMT -8
New thread, at Wett Coast's suggestion. Have fun. ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
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Post by WettCoast on Apr 5, 2011 19:50:05 GMT -8
Here is a photo that I took of the SS Tutshi at Carcross, Yukon in August of 1985. This, obviously, was taken before the fire. photo © JST & hosted on my Flickr photo site[/size][/color] The Tutshi operated on Tagish Lake in the southern Yukon and north western BC. A long journey east and south along this lake took the ship and its passengers to a narrow neck of land separating Tagish Lake from Atlin Lake. At that point a short portage railway was constructed allowing passengers to cross over to Atlin Lake where they transferred onto the SS Tarahne to complete the trip to Atlin, BC. See a photo of the Tarahne in one of the posts above. Some say that this corner of BC is the most beautiful place in the whole province and I think that they just might be right.
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Post by alaskanmohican on Apr 5, 2011 20:27:03 GMT -8
That is a nice photo of the Tutshi, I was able to tour her freight deck before she burned. I was still pretty young so I remember very little about her except that she got me interested in paddlewheelers. Up thread is a picture of the Klondike II in Whitehorse,YT. Parks Canada does tours of her in the summer. They did an amazing job of not only restoring her to her 1937 appearance, when she was built, but also of recreating the time period with the furnishings and magazines and other trappings throughout the ship. Here are some pictures from a tour (FYI long post), An external shot, note the US flag flying from the bow, it was the 4th of July when the pic was taken. A friendly gesture among friends. ![](http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab263/alaskanmohican/2008%20Travels/330.jpg) The Observation Lounge. ![](http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab263/alaskanmohican/2008%20Travels/DSC00826.jpg) Pursers Office, also his cabin. ![](http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab263/alaskanmohican/2008%20Travels/DSC00830.jpg) The Dining Saloon. ![](http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab263/alaskanmohican/2008%20Travels/DSC00838.jpg) "The table's spread, come, let us dine, my friend"--from the steamers menu. ![](http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab263/alaskanmohican/2008%20Travels/DSC00840.jpg) A typical 3 berth cabin on the Klondike, a single upper bunk and double lower bunk. ![](http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab263/alaskanmohican/2008%20Travels/DSC00844.jpg) Looking forward on the port side passenger deck. ![](http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab263/alaskanmohican/2008%20Travels/DSC00866.jpg) The Galley. ![](http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab263/alaskanmohican/2008%20Travels/051.jpg) The ships wheel in the pilot house. The large ships wheel was typically not used for steering although it could be. The Klondike had hydrolic steering so the pilot would use the foot and a half long lever sticking out towards the camera in the middle of the picture. This was a more responsive way of steering the boat in the fast flowing Yukon River. The smaller steering wheel near the top was for a large search light located on the front of the superstructure. This wheel could be used to direct the light so that the steamer could navigate the river at night. The large light looks like a large white box with a yellow circle on the front. The yellow circle is a cover over the light when it is not in use. ![](http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab263/alaskanmohican/2008%20Travels/DSC00870.jpg) The Pilot House. ![](http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab263/alaskanmohican/2008%20Travels/DSC00880.jpg) Outside the Observation Lounge found forward on the passenger deck. ![](http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab263/alaskanmohican/2008%20Travels/DSC00884.jpg) Finally, the lawn mower aka the paddlewheel of the Klondike. ![](http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab263/alaskanmohican/2008%20Travels/DSC00895.jpg)
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Post by Low Light Mike on May 6, 2011 17:39:55 GMT -8
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Post by mrdot on May 6, 2011 20:38:07 GMT -8
:)thanks to mike / aka mr horn, for posting this very interesting item, as I age, it is nice to know that other ship enthusasts and model makers are recorded for posterity! mrdot. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 9, 2011 21:25:04 GMT -8
Seen at the Royal BC Museum in Victoria: - a dinner menu from the BC Lake & River Service of Canadian Pacific. ![](http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-rQN5iq1H-3o/TmrpHIMDfoI/AAAAAAAAJi0/6TqmfYEbL9Q/s0/IMG_5100-2011.JPG)
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 19, 2011 9:49:30 GMT -8
A display at the Royal BC Museum in Victoria ![](http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/--QLNPeMhu1I/Tnd38KFwZFI/AAAAAAAAJok/6tF4rrBd4Fw/s0/IMG_5099-2011.JPG)
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 21, 2011 13:24:33 GMT -8
Here is another old photo showing the aft end of the S/S Moyie that I took at Kaslo, BC in May of 1973. At the time I was a tree planter working the summer with the BC Forest Service. photo © JST & hosted on my Flickr photo site[/size][/color] At that time the Moyie was sitting above high water on the beach. It was opened as a museum ship at that time (although not on the day I took this photo). The restoration of the Moyie had not yet started, as far as I know. If I could go back in time I would lave to do a cruise around Kootenay Lake on this beautiful vessel.
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Post by WettCoast on Dec 1, 2011 23:18:43 GMT -8
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Post by Low Light Mike on Dec 22, 2011 19:25:45 GMT -8
2 postcards: Skeena boats. - Pioneer Postcards ![](http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-WEamhd1f8Ts/TvP0OzNT3CI/AAAAAAAAKuE/9hi-NHt9fEA/s0/IMG_7976-2011.JPG) ----------------- Sicamous at the wharf in Penticton BC - Pioneer Postcards ![](http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-KvMcmtui7nU/TvP0Q7nL68I/AAAAAAAAKuI/9DN-xdJM7rY/s0/IMG_7979-2011.JPG) - compare this photo of the in-service Sicamous to the photo a few-posts earlier of the 1970s beached Sicamous, and you'll notice that the deck below the bridge was removed, later in her service life.
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Post by WettCoast on Apr 10, 2012 10:45:50 GMT -8
SS Moyie - preserved as a National Historic Site @ Kaslo, Kootenay Lake, BC - photo taken around about August of 2000. photo © Mr. DOT by Wett Coast, on Flickr[/size]
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jul 18, 2012 15:31:17 GMT -8
The view from the cemetery where my maternal grandparents are buried. - SS Sicamous and the SS Naramata (steam tug), at Okanagan Lake in Penticton. ![](http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-NVlnirXcki4/UAdGZ6zBnkI/AAAAAAAAMeA/g9bqbIkCOkg/s0/mike%252520temp%252520109a1.jpg)
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jul 18, 2012 15:32:56 GMT -8
Seen at Nelson, just a few blocks east of the orange bridge. - a home that includes part of the superstructure of the Kootenay Lake steamer Nasookin. ![](http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-FK1m6TMN190/UAdGNCxerHI/AAAAAAAAMdw/9Se12HbXJfc/s0/mike%252520temp%252520029a1.jpg)
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Post by Northern Exploration on Jul 18, 2012 17:23:31 GMT -8
Seen at Nelson, just a few blocks east of the orange bridge. - a home that includes part of the superstructure of the Kootenay Lake steamer Nasookin. ![](http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-FK1m6TMN190/UAdGNCxerHI/AAAAAAAAMdw/9Se12HbXJfc/s0/mike%252520temp%252520029a1.jpg) That "houseboat" was featured on an episode of Wierd or Strange Homes. I am sure if you googled the name it might pop up on Youtube. If I remember correctly there is beautiful woodwork inside. It also might be on reruns on some of the more obscure cable channels. wikimapia.org/7808576/SS-Nasookin-house
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jul 18, 2012 20:10:54 GMT -8
CPR sternwheeler SS Sicamous, at Penticton BC, seen on July 18, 2012. ![](http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IIcpICaK9cM/UAeFSgXBbwI/AAAAAAAAMe4/VG8gI4extbE/s0/mike%252520temp%252520223a1.jpg) Gotta love that CPR house-flag.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jul 22, 2012 18:27:15 GMT -8
Model of the MINTO, at the Revelstoke Railway Museum. - model builders are Mr. Dave Williams and Mr. George Hannah. ![](http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4PeEmt7YmLQ/UAy2UmbUcGI/AAAAAAAAMlg/uBQHF65Qo-4/s0/IMG_5108-2012.JPG) ![](http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-MF3VNhsc9s4/UAy2VRFMmuI/AAAAAAAAMlo/aeMWey6cANI/s0/IMG_5111-2012.JPG)
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Post by piglet on Jul 22, 2012 20:47:35 GMT -8
If I can make it to the coast this fall I plan on "borrowing" the family slides. Somewhere in them I do believe there are a few shots from the Moyie in service from when my folks where living in the interior.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Aug 29, 2012 17:20:46 GMT -8
Nasookin house, just east of Nelson BC. - I stopped here on July 18, 2012. ![](http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-M0NyhbFCfM4/UD6_V3xMnHI/AAAAAAAAPGU/G9KRefzcIq0/s0/IMG_7261-2012.JPG) ![](http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nXYY0xrjD6M/UD6_an2W8jI/AAAAAAAAPGk/xgh3LWgUODQ/s0/IMG_7265-2012.JPG) ![](http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-mdHm_tKuz3g/UD6_YdOBYLI/AAAAAAAAPGc/GRduvADZLDw/s0/IMG_7264-2012.JPG) ------------------ And a mural on Nelson's Front St. (Hwy 3A): ![](http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-uqU8ZdKM9K4/UD6_b2UWzRI/AAAAAAAAPGs/PhcGR7X2id8/s0/IMG_7266-2012.JPG) Close-up of Nasookin, caught in the ice. ![](http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-xQ_Nt6NNX0k/UD6_dSe6mkI/AAAAAAAAPG0/LAtoASo_o9I/s0/IMG_7269-2012.JPG)
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 3, 2012 12:50:08 GMT -8
On the grounds of the park that houses the SS Sicamous & SS Naramata in Penticton BC, there is also the stern-saloon of the old SS Okanagan. - seen July 18, 2012. ![](http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Wv039xtFSuE/UEUXIu4LrOI/AAAAAAAAP6I/mJNiq3Gg3i8/s0/IMG_7450-2012.JPG) ![](http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Of5uMvg6pac/UEUXGFIOCJI/AAAAAAAAP6E/hwFG4cqCJpY/s0/DSCF0583-2012.JPG) ![](http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-uTff3sy2fNk/UEUXLA-vpjI/AAAAAAAAP6U/1Ml5PLNkg7w/s0/IMG_7451-2012.JPG) And what the whole ship looked like: - A Robert Turner illustration from page-140 of his book "Sternwheelers and Steam Tugs" (1984 - Sono Nis Press) ![](http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-lo81ccqa2gY/UEUaHazRW3I/AAAAAAAAP7s/VAxIQHlaR_I/s0/IMG_0118-20122.JPG) ------------------- - This is a wonderful park of ship history, preserved for many years and hopefully for many more to come. I think I should put the Sicamous Society on my charity list; they do good work in preserving and presenting this history.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 3, 2012 13:36:57 GMT -8
SS Sicamous seen at Penticton's Okanagan Lake waterfront in the evening on July 18, 2012. - a wonderful ship, wonderfully preserved by a wonderful society (can you tell that I was impressed?) ;D ---------------- First off, here is a pair of Robert Turner illustrations of the ship in both her configurations. We're all used to the "shorter version" because that's all that most of us have seen in our lifetimes. But the short-version was only around for the final 2 years of her service-life, and those were sparsely used years. - The plan was to convert her to be primarily a fruit freight boat, and day trip steamer. So the Texas deck was shortened considerably, removing most of the cabins and removing that high-ceiling effect of her dining-room. (from Robert Turner's book "The Sicamous & The Naramata: Steamboat Days in the Okanagan." 1995 - Sono Nis Press.) ![](http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-SL9Nnb4hQ9s/UEUg9qVwVNI/AAAAAAAAP98/gza6GgTu7nc/s0/IMG_0122-20122.JPG) A couple other items of note for her current configuration: - The deck, from top to bottom are: Wheelhouse, Texas deck, Saloon deck, freight deck, and presumably engine & mechanical stuff below that. - At the forward end, the Texas-deck has the Ladies saloon. Below that on the saloon-deck is the Men's smoking room. - Midships on the Saloon deck is the dining room with the ceiling skylights. - Aft on the Saloon deck is the Ladies observation room. The original Texas deck, from the original configuration, was completely removed in the 1935 renovation. Also, you'll notice what looks like radio-wire or guy-wires and various stick-masts on the roof of the Texas Deck and Saloon Deck. - From page-56 of Robert Turner's "The Sicamous & The Naramata" book, it says about this concerning the 1935 renovation that "...The tall hog-posts, which helped strengthen the hull, had to be lowered, the hog-chains modified." -------------------- My views of the exterior: Pardon the poor pano-stitch, but this is the best full side view that I could get. ![](http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-jiBR84CGRQI/UEUg72lnn1I/AAAAAAAAP90/7bmkWPKlRnY/s0/pano%25252032%252520vacation-2012.JPG) Partial view from the east side ![](http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-e10GAmqu8oY/UEUg6HCDwaI/AAAAAAAAP9k/H9pNTafNYS4/s0/IMG_7452-2012.JPG) Views of the stern-wheel: ![](http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-BxcsWP8_xoU/UEUg7evWiFI/AAAAAAAAP9s/yGQN6sbkyQ4/s0/IMG_7455-2012.JPG) ![](http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DLf1wgh2pYo/UEUg4SqgKTI/AAAAAAAAP9U/VQ40YSrDCPw/s0/DSCF0579-2012.JPG) ----------------- Views from the breakwater point (or whatever the purpose of the crushed-rock point is) - With the steam tug Naramata visible on the right side (I'll have a post about her, in a few days) ![](http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-bSozTkIxFYU/UEUg2MPwhxI/AAAAAAAAP9E/q-arH7_f8AA/s0/IMG_7435-2012.JPG) ![](http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-_FIWe57sn4Y/UEUg3AhWijI/AAAAAAAAP9M/VQwX2ipZnAI/s0/IMG_7438-2012.JPG) ![](http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-aWd0102aSzk/UEUg5EOgctI/AAAAAAAAP9c/oGtq3ihZT6s/s0/IMG_7443-2012.JPG)
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