Old Schedules - photos & discussion

[Low Light Mike]

A gem from another thread, that I also want to archive into this thread.

Oct 21, 2012 20:43:30 GMT -8 piglet said:

I was poking around in an antique mall in Edmonton a while ago and came up with an unusual find. I found something a little out of the usual for the prairies. Thought you might find it interesting, its from 1953.





not exactly an alberta thing but glad someone thought it was worth passing on.

[Mayne]

Not a schedule, but a pair of old ferry tickets I found while cleaning out my grandfathers old desk last weekend.

I have no idea when they might have been from and with my grandfather not being around anymore no one to ask. Any thoughts on a rough era they might be from?

[Neil]

Feb 26, 2013 19:18:13 GMT -8 Mayne said:

Not a schedule, but a pair of old ferry tickets I found while cleaning out my grandfathers old desk last weekend.

I have no idea when they might have been from and with my grandfather not being around anymore no one to ask. Any thoughts on a rough era they might be from?

 

I believe those receipts were given right up until the takeover of Highways routes by BC Ferries. Since fares were fairly static on Highways routes, they could have been from the '80s, or even the '60s.

[Mike]

Here's a scan of the 1975-76 Year round BCF Northern routes schedule.


BC Ferries 1975-76 Year-Round Northern Schedule - Outside by West Coast Photography, on Flickr


BC Ferries 1975-76 Year-Round Northern Schedule - Inside by West Coast Photography, on Flickr

[KE7JFF]

While I am working on getting pictures of this, one of my friends just bought a vintage Jeep that has been sitting in a barn since 1990 and he found several BC Ferries & Alaska Marine Highway tickets & brochures from the 70s to 1988 and what he says look like a bunch of old credit card slips from purchases made aboard some of the last CPR passenger ships including the Maggie II.

[princessofvanfan]

Feb 26, 2013 19:18:13 GMT -8 Mayne said:

Not a schedule, but a pair of old ferry tickets I found while cleaning out my grandfathers old desk last weekend.

I have no idea when they might have been from and with my grandfather not being around anymore no one to ask. Any thoughts on a rough era they might be from?

Probably foot passenger receipts for Campbell River - Quadra - 70's, early 80's.

[Neil]

Mar 3, 2013 19:24:47 GMT -8 princessofvanfan said:

Feb 26, 2013 19:18:13 GMT -8 Mayne said:

Probably foot passenger receipts for Campbell River - Quadra - 70's, early 80's.

There's nothing to identify them as Quadra tickets. They were used on all coastal Highways routes.

[Neil]

Hope I haven't posted this before... not a schedule, but the Hornby fares for '64, when the Savoie family were operating the ferry service... probably the Lorraine S. Hogs cost as much as people; not sure what category Kevin Krueger would have been charged under.

[Low Light Mike]

The inside passage route for BC Ferries was started in 1966. Here is my copy of a 1966 schedule pamphlet, given to me by a friend today.



Close-up of the ship artwork:



The calendar:




And some historical information on the ephemera:
- 1966 being the centennial of the union of the 2 crown colonies.



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And the full back side



Close-up of the tariff page



....and a closer look at just the fares:
- discount for return trip booking.




Ship diagram


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[dave2]

I found this in a box of stuff today, mostly postcards that probably have already been scanned and posted. 

I'm not sure when or where this was from or if this is the right place to imortalize Gulf Islands Ferry Receipt #184345

[ferrygeek]

Oct 21, 2012 21:13:00 GMT -8 Low Light Mike said:

A gem from another thread, that I also want to archive into this thread.

Oct 21, 2012 20:43:30 GMT -8 piglet said:

I was poking around in an antique mall in Edmonton a while ago and came up with an unusual find. I found something a little out of the usual for the prairies. Thought you might find it interesting, its from 1953.





not exactly an alberta thing but glad someone thought it was worth passing on.

Great find! I'm glad I joined this forum.

[Starsteward]

Mar 24, 2013 14:41:23 GMT -8 Low Light Mike said:

The inside passage route for BC Ferries was started in 1966. Here is my copy of a 1966 schedule pamphlet, given to me by a friend today.



Close-up of the ship artwork:



The calendar:




And some historical information on the ephemera:
- 1966 being the centennial of the union of the 2 crown colonies.



---------------

And the full back side



Close-up of the tariff page



....and a closer look at just the fares:
- discount for return trip booking.




Ship diagram


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      Scrolling down to the bottom of the ship diagram brought back some 'in-service' memories from the Summer of 1967, as the Lower Deck cabins were my domain to 

      wet mop and polish the cabin and passageway decks after the housekeeping staff had finished making the beds and cleaning the cabins.

      I'll find an appropriate spot on one of the 'Queen of Prince Rupert' threads and relate a tale of how I almost managed to kill myself in the course of a days' work,

      down in the 'Tween decks'.

     

     Scanning the list of vehicle, passenger, and stateroom tariffs is a sad reminder of the 2015 insanely high tariffs on routes 10 and 11. And we wonder why the

     vessels used on these runs, sail with a dismal count of vehicles and passengers, even in the Summer months? Dear Dear.  

[princessofvanfan]

Here's some of my Princess of Vancouver stuff :

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[Starsteward]

Apr 6, 2015 22:38:26 GMT -8 princessofvanfan said:

   Great reminiscing through the great old photos of the 'Princess of Vancouver' and then discovering your photos of the original BC Ferries menu.

  

   I have two copies of those menus, luckily with the plastic inserts that held the dinner specials du jour. I've often wondered if anyone had copies of the old menus out 

   there.

   But what great prices on menu items back in the day!, compared to where our economic world has evolved to in 2015.

   One would be staggered to see mid-60's prices on menus today. Huge bowls of freshly made clam chowder for 35 cents! Ah, let's go for the whole meal deal and have

   a white-coated steward deliver the meal to us at one of the two horseshoe counters or at a window table. Chowder at .35, then add a big cheeseburger for another .70

   then wash that all down with an ice-cold large milkshake for .30. Please pay the cashier on the way out, a grand total of $ 1.35

   As a steward, hopefully your departing guests would leave a .65 tip, which would bring the total cost of a terrific dining experience to a whopping $2.00 - paper bill.

   Ah, how times have changed? For the better??     

 

[princessofvanfan]

Yeah, those prices are pretty crazy. My memory only goes back to the days of a deluxe burger platter for $1.95, I think, circa 1974-75.

[Starsteward]

Apr 7, 2015 17:43:34 GMT -8 princessofvanfan said:

Yeah, those prices are pretty crazy. My memory only goes back to the days of a deluxe burger platter for $1.95, I think, circa 1974-75.

    Basically you've shown how in approximately 10 years the escalation of prices was off and running. The sad part of this 10 year span was that wages did not really keep 

    pace with rising prices.

    Come to think of it, things in 2015 haven't really changed for the better, if anything, wages are falling farther and farther behind.

[princessofvanfan]

Inflation was pretty bad in the 70's, especially for food. I remember everyone carping about how expensive meat was getting, and the prices for grub on BCF seemed to be higher every time we went to the mainland. I think prices now aren't too bad - a Triple O Burger combo with a bowl of chowder and drink runs about $20, doesn't it?

[Northern Exploration]

Apr 7, 2015 17:43:34 GMT -8 princessofvanfan said:

Yeah, those prices are pretty crazy. My memory only goes back to the days of a deluxe burger platter for $1.95, I think, circa 1974-75.

If we were over the dinner hour I usually got to splurge and always either had the Halibut or Salmon and we always ate upstairs at a window table and later when it was all tables and carpeted like a dining room.  Clam chowder and sandwich for lunch.  We only got Trolls and an Ice Cream in the summer when we had to wait a sailing.

In 1973 our famly of 4 could all eat for about $10 at White Spot.  My brother was young so mostly had a clam chowder and then shared something with someone.  Later it was the Pirate Pack.  That even included Chicken Pick'ns 3 pieces (Fried Chicken with the same batter as the Fish and Chips) which was one of the more expensive items on the menu.  When we moved to Toronto we ate at one of the Original Swiss Chalets for a bit more, with a Quarter Chicken with a pile of fries, cold slaw and a beverage for $2.15.  I can remember the adults squawking when it went to $2.45.  Almost quadruple now with Cold Slaw and beverage extra.  The chicken was actually roasted over charcoal and the fries much better.

[Northern Exploration]

Apr 9, 2015 9:36:53 GMT -8 Northern Exploration said:

Apr 7, 2015 17:43:34 GMT -8 princessofvanfan said:

Yeah, those prices are pretty crazy. My memory only goes back to the days of a deluxe burger platter for $1.95, I think, circa 1974-75.

If we were over the dinner hour I usually got to splurge and always either had the Halibut or Salmon and we always ate upstairs at a window table and later when it was all tables and carpeted like a dining room.  Clam chowder and sandwich for lunch.  We only got Trolls and an Ice Cream in the summer when we had to wait a sailing.

In 1973 our famly of 4 could all eat for about $10 at White Spot.  My brother was young so mostly had a clam chowder and then shared something with someone.  Later it was the Pirate Pack.  That even included Chicken Pick'ns 3 pieces (Fried Chicken with the same batter as the Fish and Chips) which was one of the more expensive items on the menu.  When we moved to Toronto we ate at one of the Original Swiss Chalets for a bit more, with a Quarter Chicken with a pile of fries, cold slaw and a beverage for $2.15.  I can remember the adults squawking when it went to $2.45.  Almost quadruple now with Cold Slaw and beverage extra.  The chicken was actually roasted over charcoal and the fries much better.

No sooner had I posted this then a friend posted a pic of him leaving Shaw's Global studios after doing a segment on the morning show.  He asked me where I thought he should eat.  So of course I sent him a variety of places including taking a drive to HB and eating at Trolls or the Fish House in Stanley Park among others.  I hate you all.

[Nick]

Just as food for thought for this discussion, I played with some numbers on the Bank of Canada's inflation calculator.

$2.00 in 1965 is equivalent to $15.11 in 2015, $2 in 1970 is $12.42, and $2 in 1975 is $8.99 today.

The current average hourly wage, for a person 15 or older, is $24.79. www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/labr69k-eng.htm

I couldn't find a source for the average hourly wage in 1975, but some rough figuring from this document gives something around $5.75 per hour. This agrees with anecdotal information I've heard from my parents and grandparents.