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In April 1866, Captain White returned north carrying 73 passengers and 15 tons of freight. To break through ice on Upper Arrow Lake, boards nailed to the bow acted as an ice-breaker. Reaching clear water after five or six miles, later river ice proved less challenging. Charging passengers $ 25 each,
142:. In 1869, Captain White retired in ill health, and First Mate A.F. Pingston assumed command. That fall, the steamer ran aground near Steamboat Riffle in the Big Bend area. Refloated in 1870, and returned south for repairs, she operated intermittently, such as supplying the
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The final southbound run from La Porte allegedly carried only three paying passengers, but free passage was provided for miners who could not afford the fare. After striking a floating log near Little Dalles, Washington, the season ended with docking for repairs at the
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and freight at $ 200 per ton, that first season paid for the vessel. The 265 miles (426 km) to La Porte was covered in 10 days. The gold rush ended that year, but conflicting accounts exist as to the number of trips completed from
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or "Death Rapids". This navigable head of river was in the immediate vicinity of the goldfields on
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was not being served by chartered vessels. To address that need, the
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that operated from the mid-1860s to the early 1870s in today's
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65:was built using the engine from the scrapped SS
665:Canadian Pacific Railway Lake and River Service
275:. University of Nebraska, Lincoln. p. 86.
79:Built about 18 miles (29 km) south of the
660:Columbia and Kootenay Steam Navigation Company
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236:"A History of Revelstoke and the Big Bend"
91:, a principal landing at the foot of the
208:Edgewood History Book Committee (1991).
796:Upper Fraser, Nechako and Stuart Rivers
300:. Sono Nis Press, Victoria. p. 1.
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670:Interior Tug & Transport Company
123:Sources mention three, four, or 37.
979:Paddle steamers of British Columbia
775:Canadian Pacific Railway (mainline)
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984:Steamboats of Washington (state)
933:Columbia River (Wenatchee Reach)
144:Canadian Pacific Railway survey
806:Arrow Lakes and Columbia River
706:Owners, captains and personnel
20:Leonard White, captain of the
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969:Steamboats of the Arrow Lakes
765:Columbia and Kootenay Railway
349:Steamboats of the Arrow Lakes
866:Pacific Northwest steamboats
857:Gulf of Georgia-Lower Fraser
298:Sternwheelers and Steam Tugs
184:"Steamships of the Columbia"
974:History of British Columbia
821:Columbia Lake-East Kootenay
789:British Columbia steamboats
81:Canada–United States border
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296:Turner, Robert D. (1984).
271:Mills, Randall V. (1947).
254:"Mines Annual Report 1905"
59:Colony of British Columbia
848:Peace & Finlay Rivers
770:Nakusp and Slocan Railway
507:Landings (south to north)
273:Sternwheelers up Columbia
242:. pp. 50–53 (38–41).
212:. E. G. Milne. p. 5.
157:No known pictures exist.
688:(EN : Death Rapids)
131:near Marcus, just above
121:Marcus, Washington Terr.
258:www.open.library.ubc.ca
240:www.open.library.ubc.ca
210:Just where is Edgewood?
41:region of southeastern
53:Transportation to the
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780:Kettle Valley Railway
260:. p. 167 (J149).
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948:Upper Kootenai River
943:Lower Kootenai River
718:Gustavus Blin-Wright
188:www.trailsintime.org
758:Railway connections
679:Geographic features
609:Halcyon Hot Springs
411:(1891 sternwheeler)
356:Steamboats and tugs
99:and nearby creeks.
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55:Big Bend Gold Rush
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878:Oregon Coast
801:Skeena River
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639:Downie Creek
519:Northport WA
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928:Willapa Bay
903:Puget Sound
811:Slocan Lake
697:Arrow Lakes
589:West Demars
113:Arrow Lakes
75:Name origin
999:1865 ships
963:Categories
836:Skaha Lake
634:Revelstoke
614:Galena Bay
584:Arrow Park
488:Nipigonian
480:Bonnington
443:(1896 tug)
364:Forty-Nine
161:References
63:Forty-Nine
30:Forty-Nine
22:Forty-Nine
723:J.A. Mara
629:Arrowhead
569:Mackinson
534:Castlegar
514:Marcus WA
35:steamboat
644:La Porte
624:Comaplix
604:St. Leon
554:Fauquier
544:Edgewood
472:Whatshan
456:Rossland
448:Kootenay
440:Columbia
408:Columbia
384:Despatch
380:Dispatch
372:Kootenai
89:La Porte
85:latitude
549:Needles
146:in the
103:Voyages
57:in the
619:Beaton
599:Nakusp
594:Burton
539:Robson
499:(1948)
496:Widget
491:(1929)
483:(1911)
475:(1909)
467:(1898)
459:(1897)
451:(1897)
435:(1890)
427:(1895)
424:Nakusp
419:(1892)
403:(1890)
400:Lytton
395:(1890)
392:Marion
387:(1888)
375:(1885)
367:(1865)
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140:Nelson
33:was a
579:Birds
529:Trail
464:Minto
432:Trail
302:ISBN
277:ISBN
27:The
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