SS Colvile explained
| -- commercial vessels --> | +SS Colvile| Ship Name: | Colvile | | Ship Owner: | Hudson's Bay Company | | Ship Builder: | John Reeves at Grand Forks | | Ship Completed: | 1875 | | Ship Fate: | Burned 1894 | | Ship Notes: | Two non-condensing side-valve engines made April 1872 by C. Dumont, Cincinnati, Ohio |
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SS Colvile was a
Lake Winnipeg steamboat built for the
Hudson's Bay Company in
Grand Forks, Dakota Territory.
Colvile was constructed, using some parts of the vessel called
Chief Commissioner which in turn used a boiler taken from
Anson Northup.
Colvile was one of the largest vessels constructed for the HBC. The company hired Captain J. Reeves to supervise the construction of the vessel.
[1] By 1878 Colvile was a vital link in the HBC trade on the Red River of the North and Saskatchewan River routes. When a railway was built to Selkirk, Manitoba, a storage area was built on the shore of the river. Later, this site became known as the Colvile Landing. A railway spur was constructed from the Selkirk station to the landing.[2]
Colvile was destroyed by fire in 1894 while docked in the town of Grand Rapids in the northwest corner of Lake Winnipeg. The fire also destroyed several dockside buildings.[3]
References
- Web site: The Anson Northup . Manitoba Heritage Council Commemorative Plaques . 2013-07-28.
- Web site: Navigating the Red: Steamships and the Colville Landing . Jared . Laberge . St. Clements Heritage . 27 July 2005 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140223200642/http://www.stclementsheritage.com/index.php/our-heritage/transportation/influence-of-the-river/shipping/steamships-and-the-colville-landing . 23 February 2014 .
- https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/_docs/hbca/ships_histories/colvile.pdf Ships_histories
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