Maple Leaf

MAPLE LEAF is a 28.3-m schooner built at Vancouver Shipyards in 1904 as an ocean racer for a local lumber magnate. The vessel was seized during WWI and its lead keel was melted for bullets. In 1916 it was converted to a HALIBUT schooner, first called Constance B, then Parma. It left the fishery during a buyback in the 1970s and was fully restored with its original name, then used for cultural and natural history tours on the Central Coast. See also FISHING, COMMERCIAL; SHIPBUILDING
by Bet Oliver

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