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©NE of the sights not to be missed on any
consideration by tourists and others passing
through this city for the last four years has
been the veteran steamer " Beaver," the first to plough
her way through the placid waters of the Pacific Ocean
and penetrate the numerous bays, channels and inlets
of the coast of British Columbia, Washington and
Oregon, as she lay on the rocks at the entrance to
Burrard Inlet and the harbor of the Cit> of Vancouver.
The record of this old vessel is unique, and it may
be said without a precedent She was built in the
years 1834 and 1835, on the banks of the River Thames,
near the City of London, for the Hudson's Bay Com-
pany, her cost, it is said, being ;^25,ooo sterling, an
enormous s"m of money for a boat of her size. The
material used in her construction was English live oak
and teak, fastened together with copper rivets. The
nobility of England watched the progress of construc-
tion, and King William and 160,000 of his subjects
witnessed the launch. Here again the interest manifest
in the vessel was displayed, a Duchess — the belk of
Prince William's gay court— performing the christening
ceremony, and while breaking a bottle of the best
vintage of sunny Italy gave her the name she has
since so proudly worn, the "Bea\er," and one that will
live as long as the history of our fair Province, so
closely is her name associated with it.

The ''Beaver," after her launch, was fitted up with
two 75-horse power engines, and tested on the River
Thames The name of the firm still to be seen on her
engines is Bolton & Watt, the latter said to be a son of
the inventor of the steam engine. When all was
completed, the * Beaver " was loaded with a general
cargo of stores for the Company's stations on tliC coast,
rigged as a brig— it not being considered safe at that
date to steam out- and sailecLout in company with a
barque, the latter for proteptwMi, and in case the little
vessel should ne^d assistance. The voyage to the

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Columbia River \vas made by the "Beaver" in 163
days, her convoy not reaching the bar till 22 days later.
Both vessels anchored at Astoria and discharged their
cargoes, and then Captain Hume, getting up steam,
gave her a trial trip to Nisqually. the headquarters of
the Company. Capt. McNail was the next commander
of the boat. The next we hear of her she is carrying
men from Nisqually to the future Capital of the Prov
ince ; this was in 1843. But few records of her future
movements were kept. She ran backward and forward
along the coast, carrying supplies and collecting furs.

On September ist, 1874, the Hudson's Bay Company
sold her to Messrs Stafford, Saunders, Morton. Rudlin,
Coltman & Williams, who converted her into a tow-
boat, and from this company she was purchased a few
years later by Henry Saunders, of Victoria, who still
owns what remains of her.

In the fall of 1888, while under charter to the Hast-
ings Mill Company, she ran on the rocks at high tide,
and all efforts to get her off" failed. Her owner then
offered the boat for sale, but the price put on her found
no purchaser, and there she lay till June of this year,
when a boom of logs, in tow of the tug Tepic, was
carried against her by the tide, and she was badly
damaged On the 26th day of the same month the
swell of the steamer Yosemite, entering the harbor at
half tide, threw her on her side, and the engines fell
through From then the decline was rapid, rehc hunt-
ers cutting he? to pieces and carrying her away, till now
she is nothing but a mere wreck and at high tide almost
covered

A project was on foot early in the year 1892 to send
her to Chicago to the Woild's Fair, and a company with
a capital of $125,000 was formed for that purpose, but
owing to her damaged condition and the expense of
transportation the scheme was abandoned.

There are said to be a couple of people alive who
came (jut on her in 1835, one living in this Province and
one in Manitoba, near Winnipeg.

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