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Waterbridge Ferries Incorporated [7] Glade Cable Ferry: Crosses the Kootenay River at Tarry's, off BC Highway 3A. M.V. Glade II: Cable: 10 48 3 minutes Western Pacific Marine [8] Harrop Cable Ferry: Crosses the west arm of Kootenay Lake between Longbeach and Harrop, off BC Highway 3A. M.V. Harrop II: Cable: 24 98 5 minutes Western Pacific ...
Alaska Marine Highway also operates vehicle ferries between Ketchikan, Alaska and Bellingham, Washington, and Alaska Rail Marine operates train ferries between Whittier, Alaska and Seattle, Washington through the Inside Passage of British Columbia without docking at Canadian ports. For the 2024 season, Alaska Marine Highway is not servicing ...
From about 1859, Otis Parsons, who supervised the team that built the section of the Douglas Road to the head of Anderson Lake, operated the Parsonville ferry until his death. [2] About opposite the Seton River mouth, this prospectors' shanty town sprang up on the east bank of the Fraser. [ 3 ]
The reaction ferry uses the power of the river to tack across the current; the powered cable ferry uses engines or electric motors (e.g., the Canby Ferry in the U.S. State of Oregon) to wind itself across; or is hand-operated, such as the Stratford-upon-Avon chain ferry in the UK and the Saugatuck Chain Ferry in Saugatuck, Michigan, United States.
Although the cross river ferry is not mentioned until the early 1890s, [59] a basic service must have existed for years. The 1894 floods destroyed a bridge across a back channel of the Columbia near the landing. [60] In the late 1890s, Chas. Cartwright was the proprietor of McMurdo House. [61] [62]
The ferry terminal landing is accessed from British Columbia Highway 1 by taking exit 53 into Port Kells, Surrey and proceeding to the end of 104th Avenue. [31] The ferry operates under private contract with the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and is free of tolls, as are all inland ferries in British Columbia. [33]
Pointe-Fortune, Ontario (no road access across dam) Long-Sault Bridge: Grenville: Hawkesbury (replaced the Perley Bridge) Fassett - Lefaivre Ferry [6] Fassett: Lefaivre (Replaced by an ice bridge in Winter) Thurso - Rockland Ferry [7] Thurso: Rockland (Restarted operation 3 October 2008) Masson - Cumberland Ferry [8] 1939 [9] Masson: Cumberland ...
On July 31, 2009, the Albion Ferry was shut down after the opening of the Golden Ears Bridge. The ferry had connected Maple Ridge and Langley via the Fraser River since 1957. Kulleet and Klatawa had been put into service in the 1980s. The two Albion ferries were sold for $400,000 – less than half of the original asking price of $1.1 million.