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Union Steamship Company of British Columbia fonds
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1927-1951 (Creation)
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- Union Steamship Company of British Columbia
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22.5 cm of textual records
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The Union Steamship Company of British Columbia was organized in Vancouver in 1889 by Captain W. Webster and John Darling, a former director and General Superintendent of the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand. In 1911, control of the company passed to J.H. Welsford and Company of Liverpool, England, and control remained in English hands until 1937, when Vancouver capitalists purchased all shares. The company acquired the Frank Waterhouse Company of Canada in 1939 as a wholly owned subsidiary. The company also owned the Sannie and Howe Sound Ferry Company Limited as well as resort property on Bowen Island, the Sechelt Peninsula and at Whyte Cliff. Although all vessels were sold to Northland Navigation in 1959, the company remained in the land business
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The fonds consists of log books for the Cardena, Cassiar, Camosun and Cynthia, ships owned by the Union Steamship Company of British Columbia. Includes pilot house logs of the Cardena.
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Archives code(s): J/G/C17; J/G/20.5/Un3
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- Union Steamship Company of British Columbia (Subject)
- Cardena (Steamship) (Subject)
- Cassiar (Steamship) (Subject)