Princess Victoria

PRINCESS VICTORIA was the pride of the PRINCESS LINE of coastal steamers owned by the CPR. A twin-screw steel-hulled vessel, it was 91 m long with a capacity of 1,000 passengers. It entered service in 1903 and could make its regular VICTORIA–VANCOUVER run in 3½ hours, a record for the time. From 1904 to 1908 it made return trips from Victoria to Vancouver and from Victoria to Seattle every day, then in 1908 inaugurated the famous "triangle run" between the 3 cities that remained a familiar...

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