Canadian Northern Railway Company. - Passenger and Merchant Ships of the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern Railways

Copyright David R.P. Guay, 2016

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Cover Images: Clockwise from top left: The sternwheeler Operator, British Columbia Archives C-05493; map, University of Alaska-Fairbanks UAF-G3511 P53 1910 P6; the steamer Acadian, Historical Collection of the Great Lakes 000060, Bowling Green State University; the Royal Edward, Authors Collection; advertising card for the Uranium Steamship Line, Ian Lawler Collection; the steamer Garden City, Library and Archives Canada PA-020788.

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Guay, David R. P., 1954-, author

Passenger and merchant ships of the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern Railways / David R.P. Guay.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-4597-3555-2 (paperback).--ISBN 978-1-4597-3556-9 (pdf).--ISBN 978-1-4597-3557-6 (epub)

1. Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company. 2. Canadian Northern Railway Company. 3. Ship-railroads--Maritime Provinces--History. 4. Railroads--Maritime Provinces--History. I. Title.

HE2808.G83 2016 385.09715 C2016-901743-5

C2016-901744-3

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Contents

Preface

M uch has been written with regard to the histories of Canadas great transcontinental railways. However, with the exception of the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Railways, the story behind their involvement with maritime affairs on salt and fresh water has gone relatively untold. This book attempts to correct this oversight by identifying and describing the various shipping enterprises of the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern Railways between 1900 and 1920.

Each chapter after the introduction in the first chapter covers a particular aspect of the maritime operations of one railway on either salt or fresh water. Within this framework, steamer operations are individually described following a chronological and/or geographical order as befits the circumstances.

In order to improve readability of the text, and at the same time provide salient details of the vessels owned/operated, tables have been provided at the end of each chapter describing the most important vessels discussed in that chapter.

As a general rule of thumb, the author has attempted to present at least one photograph or drawing of every vessel that is the subject of a descriptive table, along with a selection of illustrations representing related maritime infrastructure. In some cases, either no photographs were ever taken or none have, as yet, come to light. Photographic quality has also presented some problems. Ideally, only the sharpest and clearest photographs should be used in a book, since these are easily reproduced and readily understood. The author has chosen to include a small number of marginal photographs, if for no other reason than that they represent the only photographs available at the time of writing.

The author has provided appendices that describe the house flags and funnels of the steamship lines reviewed in this book, a listing of sources of scale model kits and ship plans available to those who wish to scale model vessels and infrastructure described in this book, and a glossary of nautical abbreviations and terms.

Acknowledgements

T he author wishes to thank the staff of the University of Minnesota Bio-Medical Library for providing the author access to otherwise unavailable articles, periodical volumes, and books. The assistance of Jacques Marc and Peter Laister and the administrative assistance of Dede Johnston in word processing and then pulling this labour of love together into its final form are gratefully acknowledged, as well.

The author wishes to thank the following individuals and organizations for providing illustrations:

• Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.
• British Columbia Archives, Victoria, British Columbia.
• Carla Tofinetti.
• Cathy Chapin.
• Centre darchives de la MRC du Doumaine-du-Roy, Roberval, Quebec.
• City of Vancouver Archives, Vancouver, British Columbia.
• Clydebuilt Ships database (clydesite.co.uk).
• Delta Museum and Archives, Delta, British Columbia.
• Donal Baird.
• Fotocollectie Het Leven, Dutch National Archives, The Hague, Netherlands.
• Historical Collection of the Great Lakes, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
• John O. Greenwood.
• Leonard Gray and John Lingwood.
• Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
• McCord Museum, Montreal, Quebec.
• Milo S. Ketchum (deceased).
• Niagara Falls Public Library, Niagara Falls, Ontario.
• Peter Searle (searlecanada.org).
• Prince Rupert City and Regional Archives, Prince Rupert, British Columbia.
• Saguenay Historical Society, Chicoutimi, Quebec.
• Salem Public Library, Salem, Oregon.
• Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary Database, Alpena County Public Library, Alpena, Michigan.
• Toronto Public Library, Toronto, Ontario.
• Tyne built ships database.
• University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska.
• University of Washington Archives, Seattle, Washington.
• Vancouver Maritime Museum, Vancouver, British Columbia.
• Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, British Columbia.
• Wrecksite.eu database.

The author wishes to thank the following organizations for their assistance in completing Appendix 2:

• Dundee City Archives, Dundee, Scotland.
• Glasgow City Archives, Glasgow, Scotland.
• Royal Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England.
• Tyne & Wear Archives, Newcastle, England.
• Vancouver Maritime Museum, Vancouver, British Columbia.
• Wisconsin Maritime Museum, Manitowoc, Wisconsin.

The author also wishes to thank Michael Caroll, Kathryn Lane, Cheryl Hawley, and Kirk Howard of Dundurn Press for their unfailing support of this project.