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LYNN-BROW^NE 3f^- 4^ 4^ 4^ 4 4^ fe 4^ PUBLISHED BY BAILEY BROS. Landscape Photographers, Booksellers and Stationers r^: 158162 CORDOVA STREET VANCOUVER, n, C. r# ^^4'^4#4^4^4#4#4#4^44-4#-4M i\ ©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 • I ^ J^ ^ ^ 4^ £^ ^ r^ 4j^ 4^1 4^ i^ i^ s^ ,^ t^ 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. r^ i^ r^ 153386 ^ ^ -^ ^ ^ rtf»*i!|i"iil». 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