Section Two

After the railway was completed in 1885 river boats on the Fraser River and the Thompson River were seldom used.

The steamboat SS Lytton on Upper Arrow Lake in 1892.
A-00092

The SS Nakusp on the Columbia River in 1897.
A-00323

Railway cars loading and unloading at the paddlewheeler SS Nelson near Proctor on Kootenay Lake in the 1890s.
A-00285

The SS Kootenay docked at Halcyon Springs on Upper Arrow Lake in the early 1900s.
A-00659

A race on Kootenay Lake between the lake boats SS International and SS Kokanee in the early 1900s.
Detail of A-00780

The sternwheeler SS Slocan at the wharf at Rosebery on Slocan Lake in 1913.
Detail of A-00674

The SS Bonnington on the Arrow Lakes in 1912.
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