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Pacific Princesses by Robert D. Turner Canadian Pacific princess fleet Northwest
Pacific Princesses by Robert D. Turner
The Pacific Princesses
An Illustrated History of Canadian Pacific Railways Princess Fleet in the Northwest Coast
Robert D. Turner
Hard Cover w/Dust Jacket
252 Pages
Copyright 1977
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Contents
PREFACEvu
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSIx
LIST OF MAPSxm
CHAPTER I
THE EARLY YEARSEarly Transportation on the Northwest Coast
AND THE CANADIAN PACIFIC
NAVIGATION COMPANY The Canadian Pacific Navigation CompanyI x
New Ships: the Premier and the Islander15
The CPN in the 1890's24
The Klondike and Alaska Gold Rush3o
CHAPTER II
THE FORMATION OF The CPR Buys the CPN39
THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY'S
B.C. COAST SERVICEThe Sinking of the Islander42
The New Princesses47
Rivalry on Puget Sound58
The Chehalis Tragedy59
The Princess Royal is Launched and
the E & N Steamers Join the Fleet6o
CHAPTER III
THE GREAT RATE WAR The PSN Buys New Ships and the Rivalry Increases65
The Rate War Begins69
The Races Between the Chippewa
and the Princess Victoria73
The Battle of the Signs and Attempts at Settlement75
Victoria to Vancouver in Almost Three Hours79
The 19o8 Summer Season8o
The CPR's Double Service on the Triangle Route82
The Princess Charlotte82
New Competition Appears and the Rate War Ends83
CHAPTER IV
GROWTH OF THE FLEETThe Operations of the B.C. Coastal Fleet89
The Island Princess, Wrecks and the
Grand Trunk Pacific Steamships109
Loss of the Princess SophiaI I5
The Princess Ena and Ribble Rock118
CHAPTER V
THE PRINCESSESNew Construction on the Coast121
ON THE COAST
The Princesses Kathleen and Marguerite130
Changes in Operations and the Retirement of Troup135
The CPR's Atlantic Princesses151
The New Night Boats151
The CNR's Princes156
The Princesses in the 1930's157
The War Years167
The Kathleen and the Marguerite
at War and the Princesses at Home167
CHAPTER VI
THE POST-WAR YEARSResumption of Peacetime Operations175
The Second Princess Patricia and Marguerite179
The Princess of Nanaimo and the Chinook185
The Princess Kathleen and the Prince Rupert Collide193
The Loss of the Princess Kathleen196
Service Cuts Along the Coast199
The Puget Sound Navigation Company Moves to Canada203
Battle for the Vancouver to Nanaimo Routes207
The 1958 Strike and the Formation of
British Columbia Ferries213
Sale of the Princesses216
The Passing of the Princesses223
NOTES ON SOURCES OF REFERENCE229
BIBLIOGRAPHY231
APPENDIX IShips of the Princess Fleet233
APPENDIX IIShips of the Puget Sound Navigation Company
Involved in the 1907-09 Rate War240
APPENDIX HIShips of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (1910-1920)
and Canadian National Railways (1920-1975)242
APPENDIX IVPrincipal Black Ball Lines' Ferries Operated in
Competition with the CPR (1952-1961)244
APPENDIX VRepresentative British Columbia Ferries' Ships245
INDEX 247
List of Maps
1Route of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's Steamers, British Columbia Coast Service
2Fraser River Steamer Routes8
3 White Pass & Yukon Route37
4 Triangle Route83
5 Lynn Canal, AlaskaT16
6 Seymour Narrows and Ripple Rock119
7 Vancouver Island Coastal Routes149
8Puget Sound and Juan de Fuca Strait Services172
9Strait of Georgia Services 192
Inside Dust jacket
This book contains more than 28o illustrations, photographs, maps, timetables, reproductions, scale drawings, together with fleet lists, bibliography and index.
In 1901 the Canadian Pacific Railway Company acquired control of the pioneering Canadian Pacific Navigation Company which for 20 years had provided the principal steamship services on the British Columbia coast and a major link between Puget Sound and Alaska. This purchase was the beginning of the fascinating story of one of the most outstanding steamship operations in the history of the Pacific.
Within a few years, the CPR transformed the CPN's assortment of outdated coastal freighters, passenger steamers, and ancient paddlewheelers into a modern fleet of luxurious coastal liners the Princess ships offering unprecedented services to Washington State, British Columbia, and southern Alaska.
Beginning with the Princess May and the beautiful Princess Victoria, illustrated on the dust jacket, the fleet grew to include such well-remembered vessels as the Princesses Charlotte, Patricia, Alice, Adelaide Maquinna, Louise, Joan, Elizabeth, Marguerite, Kathleen, Elaine, and Norah.
It is an exciting story ranging from the spirited competition of the rate war with Joshua Green's Puget Sound Navigation Company and the races between the record breaking Princess Victoria and the rival Chippeuv and Iroquois, to the affectionately remembered leisurely cruises of the night boats and the services to the isolated coastal ports from Ucluelet to Skagway. Inevitably, there is also tragedy with the sinking of the Islander only months after the CPR line was formed and later, the losses of the Princess Sophia and the Princess Kathleen
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