FIRST - Steamship in the Pacific Northwest — Vancouver, BC
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N 49° 18.844 W 123° 08.530
10U E 489666 N 5462379
Built in England in 1835 for the Hudson's Bay Company, the SS Beaver was sent to ply the waters along today's Washington State, British Columbia and Alaska for trade. In 1888 she sank off of Stanley Park at the entrance to Vancouver's harbour.
Waymark Code: WMPZQ1
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 11/18/2015
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In 1888 the SS Beaver met her fate at First Narrows in Burrard Inlet, but her service became legendary along the British Columbia coastline as she plied the waters from the 1830s for the next fifty or so years.
What made her most famous is that the SS Beaver was the first steamship in the Pacific Northwest. Until now all marine traffic was either human powered or wind driven.
The vessel was based out of Fort Victoria on Vancouver Island and linked up several HBC fur trading forts and trading posts stretching from southern Puget Sound to the Alaska Panhandle.
Today not much remains of the shipwreck at this location, however parts can be found in the Vancouver Maritime Museum and the British Columbia Maritime Museum.
But her legend lives on. Even one of the passenger-only ferries linking Vancouver to the North Shore is named in her honour.
FIRST - Classification Variable: Item or Event
Date of FIRST: 01/01/1836
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