Moyie

MOYIE is the oldest surviving passenger sternwheeler steamboat in the world and the oldest surviving member of the CPR's large fleet of freshwater steam vessels in its BC LAKE & RIVER SERVICE. Launched at NELSON in 1898, the vessel first worked on a run linking that city with the south head of KOOTENAY LK at Kootenay Landing, the western terminus of the SOUTHERN RWY OF BC (the CROWSNEST PASS route). In 1906 the 49-m vessel was reassigned to general service and in 1931, after the cessation of...

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