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    Twelve paddlewheel steamboats plied the upper Fraser River in British Columbia from 1863 until 1921. They were used for a variety of purposes: working...
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    throughout the Fraser River Valley until the early 1900s. Industrialization of the river began with the use of the traditional trade waterway by steamboats and...
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    Steamboats on the Colorado River operated from the river mouth at the Colorado River Delta on the Gulf of California in Mexico, up to the Virgin River...
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    the Peace River Steamboats of the Stikine River Steamboats of the Upper Fraser River in British Columbia Downs, Art (1971). Paddlewheels on the Frontier...
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    did any work on the upper Fraser after the fall of 1913. Steamboats of the Upper Fraser River in British Columbia List of ships in British Columbia Downs...
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    worked on the lower Fraser and Yukon River sternwheelers before coming to the upper Fraser River in the early 1900s. Owen Forrester Browne, of Hawaiian...
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    Quesnel (sternwheeler) (category Shipwrecks in rivers)
    the rock she was caught on and sank and was never recovered. The era of river navigation on the upper Fraser was over. Steamboats of the Upper Fraser...
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    A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels. Steamboats sometimes use the prefix designation...
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    Steamboats of the East Kootenay region. Frank P. Armstrong Baillie-Grohman Canal Steamboats of the Arrow Lakes Steamboats of the Upper Fraser River Steamboats...
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    Steamboats of Lake Okanagan Steamboats of the Lower Fraser River and Harrison Lake Steamboats of the Upper Fraser River in British Columbia Steamboats of the Skeena...
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  • tributaries of the Fraser River List of rivers of British Columbia Steamboats of the Upper Fraser River in British Columbia "Stuart Lake". BC Geographical...
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    Sternwheeler Jean Steamboat Steamboats of the Columbia River Steamboats of the Mississippi Steamboats of the upper Columbia and Kootenay Rivers Tourist sternwheelers...
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  • The Giscome Portage was a portage between the Fraser River and Summit Lake, which connected with the river route to the Peace Country via Finlay Forks...
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  • Victoria (sternwheeler) (category Paddle steamers of British Columbia)
    until 1906. Steamboats of the Upper Fraser River in British Columbia List of ships in British Columbia Downs, Art (1971). Paddlewheels on the Frontier Volume...
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    The Skeena River is the second-longest river entirely within British Columbia, Canada (after the Fraser River). Since ancient times, the Skeena has been...
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    The Fraser Canyon is a major landform of the Fraser River where it descends rapidly through narrow rock gorges in the Coast Mountains en route from the...
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    1919, the first Link River Dam, a timber crib dam, was constructed at the outlet of Upper Klamath Lake, raising it by about 16 feet (5 m). Steamboats continued...
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    Nechacco (category Shipwrecks in rivers)
    The Nechacco sternwheeler was built for service on the Soda Creek to Fort George route on the upper Fraser River in British Columbia. She was owned by...
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    Operator (sternwheeler) (category Steamboats of the Skeena River)
    hauled out of the river and left to rot at Foley's Cache at Fort George. Steamboats of the Upper Fraser River in British Columbia List of ships in British...
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    Enterprise (1863) (category Paddle steamers of British Columbia)
    Steamboats of the Upper Fraser River in British Columbia List of ships in British Columbia Enterprise (1855) Downs, Art (1971). Paddlewheels on the Frontier...
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  • up to the end of World War II (1945). Steamboats of the Upper Fraser River in British Columbia Steamboats of the Skeena River Steamboats of the Arrow...
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    Charlotte (sternwheeler) (category Paddle steamers of British Columbia)
    justified and she was abandoned on the riverbank at Quesnel. Steamboats of the Upper Fraser River in British Columbia List of ships in British Columbia West...
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    fish to the upper river by constructing a fish ladder. None of these amenities for steamboats or salmon were ever constructed — in fact, the dam ended...
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    This is a list of steamboats on the Yukon River. Please see Steamboats of the Yukon River for historical context. White Pass Barges (102 vessels): 25 barges...
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    Enterprise (1855) (category Steamboats of the Willamette River)
    The Enterprise was an early steamboat operating on the Willamette River in Oregon and also one of the first to operate on the Fraser River in British Columbia...
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    -90.662 The Delta Queen is an American sternwheel steamboat. She is known for cruising the major rivers that constitute the tributaries of the Mississippi...
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    South Fort George (category Populated places on the Fraser River)
    Names of Prince George. CNC Press. p. 111. ISBN 0-9735092-0-1. Steamboats of the Upper Fraser River in British Columbia Prince George: Rivers, Railways...
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    settlement of the lower basin began in the mid- to late-1800s, with steamboats sailing from the Gulf of California to landings along the river that linked...
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    The lake is drained by the Okanagan River, which exits the lake's south end via a canal through the city of Penticton to Skaha Lake, whence the river...
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    Slough (hydrology) (category River morphology)
    off the river's source. In the Sacramento River, Steamboat Slough was an alternate branch of the river, a preferred shortcut route for steamboats passing...
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