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The MV Chinook arriving in Victoria in about 1947 and then scenes from t...
The The Chinook was ordered by the Black Ball Line (aka The Puget Sound Navigation Company) right after the war. Captain Peabody of the line was looking for a modern ship to serve in the Seattle-Port Angles-Victoria run.
The ship was designed by William Francis Gibbs who would later design the SS United States and SS America.
Ship was built in Seattle at the Todd Shipyard in Seattle.
She could carry 100 cars and had staterooms to match. She was a very popular addition to the fleet but this did not stop the problems for the Black Ball Line and in 1951 Peabody lost control of his ships serving intra Washington state routes. He retained five ships, one of them was the Chinook. The Chinook continued the Port Angles to Victoria route til 1954.
Black Ball moved the ferry to the Horseshow Bay to Nanaimo route. She remained on that route till 1963 even after the 1961 nationalization of the Black Ball line by the Socreds
She was renamed the Sechelt Queen in 1963 and was moved to many runs over the next 13 years before being transferred to the Ministry of Highways and used on the Comox to Powell River run.
She remained in service till June 1982. She then remained in an odd limbo of possible projects until she was broken up in about 2001.
For more information about the MV Chinook/Sechelt Queen, check out this link:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/...
Original footage comes from this link:
https://youtu.be/l0FpYSC4rWEChinook was ordered by the Black Ball Line (aka The Puget Sound Navigation Company) right after the war. Captain Peabody of the line was looking for a modern ship to serve in the Seattle-Port Angles-Victoria run.
The ship was designed by William Francis Gibbs who would later design the SS United States and SS America.
Ship was built in Seattle at the Todd Shipyard in Seattle.
She could carry 100 cars and had staterooms to match. She was a very popular addition to the fleet but this did not stop the problems for the Black Ball Line and in 1951 Peabody lost control of his ships serving intra Washington state routes. He retained five ships, one of them was the Chinook. The Chinook continued the Port Angles to Victoria route til 1954.
Black Ball moved the ferry to the Horseshow Bay to Nanaimo route. She remained on that route till 1963 even after the 1961 nationalization of the Black Ball line by the Socreds
She was renamed the Sechelt Queen in 1963 and was moved to many runs over the next 13 years before being transferred to the Ministry of Highways and used on the Comox to Powell River run.
She remained in service till June 1982. She then remained in an odd limbo of possible projects until she was broken up in about 2001.
For more information about the MV Chinook/Sechelt Queen, check out this link:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/...
Original footage comes from this link:
https://youtu.be/l0FpYSC4rWE
The ship was designed by William Francis Gibbs who would later design the SS United States and SS America.
Ship was built in Seattle at the Todd Shipyard in Seattle.
She could carry 100 cars and had staterooms to match. She was a very popular addition to the fleet but this did not stop the problems for the Black Ball Line and in 1951 Peabody lost control of his ships serving intra Washington state routes. He retained five ships, one of them was the Chinook. The Chinook continued the Port Angles to Victoria route til 1954.
Black Ball moved the ferry to the Horseshow Bay to Nanaimo route. She remained on that route till 1963 even after the 1961 nationalization of the Black Ball line by the Socreds
She was renamed the Sechelt Queen in 1963 and was moved to many runs over the next 13 years before being transferred to the Ministry of Highways and used on the Comox to Powell River run.
She remained in service till June 1982. She then remained in an odd limbo of possible projects until she was broken up in about 2001.
For more information about the MV Chinook/Sechelt Queen, check out this link:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/...
Original footage comes from this link:
https://youtu.be/l0FpYSC4rWEChinook was ordered by the Black Ball Line (aka The Puget Sound Navigation Company) right after the war. Captain Peabody of the line was looking for a modern ship to serve in the Seattle-Port Angles-Victoria run.
The ship was designed by William Francis Gibbs who would later design the SS United States and SS America.
Ship was built in Seattle at the Todd Shipyard in Seattle.
She could carry 100 cars and had staterooms to match. She was a very popular addition to the fleet but this did not stop the problems for the Black Ball Line and in 1951 Peabody lost control of his ships serving intra Washington state routes. He retained five ships, one of them was the Chinook. The Chinook continued the Port Angles to Victoria route til 1954.
Black Ball moved the ferry to the Horseshow Bay to Nanaimo route. She remained on that route till 1963 even after the 1961 nationalization of the Black Ball line by the Socreds
She was renamed the Sechelt Queen in 1963 and was moved to many runs over the next 13 years before being transferred to the Ministry of Highways and used on the Comox to Powell River run.
She remained in service till June 1982. She then remained in an odd limbo of possible projects until she was broken up in about 2001.
For more information about the MV Chinook/Sechelt Queen, check out this link:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/...
Original footage comes from this link:
https://youtu.be/l0FpYSC4rWE
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
A Short Film Clip of Lawn Bowling in Victoria BC ca 1919
Thanks to the Victoria Lawn Bowling Club I have some information about the clip.
This from about 1919 and shows the men of Victoria Bowling Club competing in inter-city tournament with Royal Lawn Bowling Club of Edmonton..
The game is being played in Victoria on the VLBC pitch.
As of this point no one can say for certain who the various players are.
The Victoria Lawn Bowling Clubs still exists
http://www.victorialbc.com/
The Royal Lawn Bowling Club of Edmonton still exists
http://royalbowls.ca/
Source: Library and Archives Canada. British Columbia Archives & Records Service fonds, 1973-0174. IDC: 18697.
Original raw footage at this link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l56Ek0CUyEY
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Silver Spring Brewery ad about prohibition coming in BC
Alcohol was prohibited in British Columbia for about four years, from 1917 to 1921. A referendum in 1916 asked BC citizens whether they approved of making alcohol illegal but the results were not clear. Soldiers from overseas could vote but the majority of their ballots were late in coming in so they were not counted.
On September 14th the vote was:
In BC Overseas Total
Yes 39,843 2,061 41,904
No 30,839 5,263 36,102
When all the overseas results were counted the No to prohibition side had more votes
In BC Overseas Total
Yes 39,843 2,893 42,736
No 30,839 12,719 43,558
On September 14th the vote was:
In BC Overseas Total
Yes 39,843 2,061 41,904
No 30,839 5,263 36,102
When all the overseas results were counted the No to prohibition side had more votes
In BC Overseas Total
Yes 39,843 2,893 42,736
No 30,839 12,719 43,558
In Victoria the vote was 3,467 for prohibition and 3,336 against.
Prohibition only lasted from 1917 to 1921 by which time it became clear that it was a mistake. The fact that the vote was against prohibition did not help with the legitimacy of the idea
Here is a different from a company trying to sell their stock
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