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The Pacific Princesses: An Illustrated History of Canadian Pacific Railway's Princess Fleet on the Northwest Coast
by Turner, Robert D.

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The Pacific Princesses: An Illustrated History of Canadian Pacific Railway's Princess Fleet on the Northwest Coast: This book contains more than 280 illustrations, photographs, maps, timetables, reproductions, scale drawings, together with fleet lists, bibliography and index.

In 1901 the Canadian Pacific Railway Company acquired control of the pioneering Canadian Pacific Navigation Company which for 20 years had provided the principal steamship services on the British Columbia coast and a major link between Puget Sound and Alaska. This purchase was the beginning of the fascination story of one of the most outstanding steamship operations in the history of the Pacific.

Within a few years, the CPR transformed the CPN's assortment of outdated coastal freighters, passenger steamers, and ancient paddlewheelers into a modern fleet of luxurious coastal liners – the Princess ships – offering unprecedented service to Washington State, British Columbia, and southern Alaska.

The CPR's palatial intercity liners of the famed Triangle Route between Seattle, Victoria, and Vancouver captured the public eye but there were other less renowned aspects of the Princess fleet's history that could not go unrecorded: the coastal freighters; the tugs; the riverboats of the lower Fraser River; the war services of the Princess Kathleen and Princess Marguerite; the CPR's Atlantic Princesses; the pioneering automobile ferry Motor Princess, and the competition of Puget Sound Navigation, Grand Trunk Pacific, Union Steam, Canadian National, Black Ball, and finally, British Columbia Ferries. The steamship played a formative role in the development of the north Pacific coast of North America and the CPR's Princesses will long have a place in its history. This is their story, told candidly but with affection

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ISBN-10:	155039150X
ISBN-13/EAN:	9781550391503
Author:	Turner, Robert D.
Publisher:	Sono Nis Press Winlaw, B.C.
Publication Date:	10/2004
Pages:	258 pp
Size/Dimensions:	11 x 8.5 x .75 inches
Binding:	Paperback

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The Pacific Princesses: An Illustrated History of Canadian Pacific Railway's Princess Fleet on the Northwest Coastby Turner, Robert D.

The Pacific Princesses: An Illustrated History of Canadian Pacific Railway's Princess Fleet on the Northwest Coast
by Turner, Robert D.