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    MV Queen of Cowichan is a BC Ferries vessel, built in Victoria, British Columbia in 1976. It joined the other two C-class ferries built that year, Queen...
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  • Yarrow Shipbuilders (category Defunct shipbuilding companies of Scotland)
    in 1960 and reassembled at the Kenyan port of Kisumu on the lake in 1961. The train ferries MV Umoja and MV Uhuru were built in Scotstoun in 1965 and reassembled...
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    MV Queen of Coquitlam is a C-class ferry in the BC Ferries fleet, launched in 1976. She first operated on BC Ferries' Horseshoe Bay to Departure Bay route...
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    year, Queen of Coquitlam and Queen of Cowichan. Two additional C-class ferries, Queen of Surrey and Queen of Oak Bay, were built in 1981. Queen of Alberni...
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    of 20.5 knots (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph). The first two C-class ferries built were Queen of Coquitlam and Queen of Cowichan, constructed in 1976. Queen of...
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  • were killed when Queen of Cowichan ran over a pleasure boat near the Horseshoe Bay terminal. The BC Court of Appeal found the Cowichan two thirds at fault...
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    Heritage". My Cowichan Valley Now. "BC Ferries renames MV Kuper in the spirit of reconciliation". BC Ferries. December 1, 2023. Government of Canada. "Details...
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    Columbia Shuswap Comox Valley Cowichan East Kootenay Fraser Valley Fraser Fort George Kitimat Stikine Kootenay Boundary MV Mount Waddington Nanaimo North...
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    water-taxi) MV Lequime (Fintry Queen, excursion and water-taxi) MV Lloyd-Jones - 1950-1960 (Bowen Queen 1960-1965, MV Vesuvius Queen 1965-1998) MV Pendozi...
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    Kʼómoks of the Comox Valley area, the Cowichan of the Cowichan Valley, the Esquimalt, the Saanich of the Saanich Peninsula, the Songhees of the Victoria...
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    2007-05-14. "History of MV Coho and Black Ball Transport". Blackball Ferry Line. Retrieved April 18, 2013. William Rayner, Scandall!! 130 Years of Damnable Deeds...
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    SS Princess Marguerite (category Passenger ships of Canada)
    summer of 1980 the BC Ferries MV Queen of Prince Rupert was renamed Victoria Princess and repainted with a Union Jack livery in keeping with the theme of the...
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  • British Columbia provincial government. In 1964, MV Kahloke was renamed MV Langdale Queen and moved to the Horseshoe Bay-Langdale route, where she continued...
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    Ferries system without a traffic signal at its entrance or exit. BC Ferries' MV Coastal Celebration docked at Swartz Bay terminal in May 2014 "Seaspan Reliant"...
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    This is a list of shipwrecks located in or off the coast of Canada. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates)...
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    ferry, it is about 9.5 nautical miles (17.6 km) long and serviced by the MV Malaspina Sky. The trip by ferry from Earls Cove to Saltery Bay takes about...
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    million (equivalent to 80.81 million in 2022) to build. On December 20, 2011, MV Coastal Inspiration experienced a hard landing upon arrival at Duke Point...
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    5284924 Miramar, SS Princess of Nanaimo, ID#5408063. Miramar, MV Princess of Vancouver, ID#5284998 Miramar, MV Princess of Acadia, ID#7039567 Fournier...
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    Lady Cynthia (category Steamships of Canada)
    to keep Cowichan from sinking. There were only 45 people on board Cowichan, including 31 crew. Captain Wilson of the Cowichan helped all of them board...
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    USFS Eider (redirect from MV Eider)
    aerial circumnavigation of the world. Prior to her acquisition by the Bureau of Fisheries, the ship was the commercial fishing vessel MV Idaho. From 1942 to...
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    ferry, it is about 9.5 nautical miles (17.6 km) long and is serviced by the MV Malaspina Sky. "BC Ferries Schedules: Sechelt - Powell River (Earls Cove-Saltery...
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    ship should not be confused with the later similarly named motor ferry MV Queen of the North. Princess Norah was built in 1929 at the Fairfield shipyard...
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    Puget Sound Navigation Company (category Ferries of British Columbia)
    Columbia, Canada on the MV Coho, through its operating company, Black Ball Ferry Line. In the past, the company operated an entire fleet of steamboats and ferries...
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    Komagata Maru incident (category History of human rights in Canada)
    "Magic, Murder and Mystery", (Duncan, B.C., Cowichan Leader, 1965) Morse, Eric Wilton. "Some Aspects of the Komagata Maru Affair." Canadian Historical...
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    two ferries, the MV Island Gwawis and the MV Island Kwigwis, which can hold up to 47 cars and 450 passengers with a total travel time of about 20 to 25...
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    The steamboat Daily operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet. In later years, Daily was renamed Island Princess and later...
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  • MV Lady Rose is a small, single-screw, diesel coastal vessel, which operated on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada. Originally a Union Steamship...
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    Porteau Cove Provincial Park (category Provincial parks of British Columbia)
    Cove Provincial Park is a provincial park located along the eastern shore of Howe Sound in British Columbia, Canada. Situated along the Sea to Sky Highway...
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    SS Princess Kathleen (1924) (category Passenger ships of Canada)
    modified to carry 1,800 passengers by reducing the number of staterooms to 123. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth traveled aboard Princess Kathleen en route...
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  • Boston Ships, and China Goods: The Maritime Fur Trade of the Northwest Coast, 1785-1841. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 168. ISBN 0-7735-2028-7. Ogden...
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