Cassiar

CASSIAR was a wooden-hulled UNION STEAMSHIP CO vessel, built by Wallace Shipyards (see BURRARD DRY DOCK) in FALSE CREEK in VANCOUVER and launched in Sept 1901. Known familiarly as the "loggers' palace," it was used mainly to transport loggers between their isolated coastal camps and the saloons of Vancouver. The vessel itself was equipped with a barroom, and it made many raucous voyages. It was 36.5 m long and had a gross weight of 537 tonnes and capacity for 144 passengers. The Cassiar retired...

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