Vadso Island

Vadso Island, Vadso Rocks (55˚23'00" 129˚45'00" SW of Larcom I, Observatory Inlet, SE of Stewart). The steamship Vadso was built in Sweden in 1881 as the Bordeaux and brought out to BC in 1907 by the Boscowitz Steamship Co. It carried only 50 passengers and operated mostly as a freighter to the new gold-mining centre at Stewart and also to the northern canneries. In 1911 the Boscowitz company was sold to the Union Steamship Co, and the 824-tonne, 59-m Vadso, named after a town in northern...

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