Canadian shipping in the British Columbia coastal trade ...

• Main Author: Schuthe, George Macdonald
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2012
• Subjects: Hudson Bay
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0106747; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0106747

Within the last one hundred and thirty years, the coasting tirade of British Columbia has passed through four more or less distinct stages of development the era of the early trading monopolist, the Hudson Bay Company the rise of the small-scale ship owner the growth of corporate shipping enterprise and in the first half of the twentieth century, the predominating influence of the national railway companies, particularly the Canadian Pacific. Fast passenger steamers are usually associated with British Columbia coast shipping, and yet, the more prosaic tug boats, tankers, and fish packers, if less spectacular, are just as important to the economy of the province. Coasting steamers as cargo carriers are, in fact, in process of being eclipsed by scows and barges, which, in the sheltered waters of the coast, are more cheaply operated than self-propelled freighting vessels. The routes of heaviest traffic on the coast are those serving the areas of densest population on the lower mainland and central and southern ...