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Bowen Island ferry. The Bowen Island ferry travels between Snug Cove on Bowen Island, and Horseshoe Bay in the District of West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, a trip of three nautical miles across Queen Charlotte Channel. A scheduled ferry has been in operation since 1921, when Bowen Island was a popular holiday destination.
A ferry departing the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal. / 49.37639°N 123.27111°W / 49.37639; -123.27111. Horseshoe Bay is a major ferry terminal owned and operated by BC Ferries in British Columbia, Canada. Located in the community of Horseshoe Bay, a neighbourhood of West Vancouver, the terminal provides a vehicle ferry link from the ...
Langdale is a ferry terminal owned and operated by BC Ferries, which provides ferry services from the Sunshine Coast to the Lower Mainland, Gambier Island, and Keats Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Route 3 is a car/passenger ferry route to Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver. [3] Route 13 to Gambier Island and Keats Island only ...
Passengers. 2023. 1 587 734 [Note 1] 1.32%. Departure Bay is a major ferry terminal in Nanaimo, British Columbia, owned and operated by BC Ferries that provides ferry service across the Strait of Georgia to Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver. The terminal is located at the southern end of Departure Bay. Unlike Nanaimo's other major ferry terminal ...
There is regular ferry service from Horseshoe Bay provided by BC Ferries, and semi-regular water taxi services. The population of 4,256 [ 5 ] is supplemented in the summer by about 1,500 visitors. It has a land area of 50.12 km 2 (19.35 sq mi).
BC Ferries CEO David Hahn claimed that building the ferries in Germany would "save almost $80 million and could lead to lower fares." [4] On September 17, 2004, BC Ferries awarded [5] the vessel construction contract to Germany's Flensburger shipyard. The contract protected BC Ferries from any delays through a fixed price and fixed schedule ...
Coordinates: 49°22′26″N 123°16′38″W. Location of Horseshoe Bay. Horseshoe Bay is a community [1] of about 1,000 permanent residents [2] in West Vancouver, in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Situated on the western tip of West Vancouver at the entrance to Howe Sound, the village marks the western end of Highway 1 on mainland ...
Car ferry service on the route between Horseshoe Bay, West Vancouver and Departure Bay, Nanaimo had originally been started by the private Black Ball Line in June 1953. . Black Ball was purchased by the government of British Columbia on November 30, 1961 and its routes absorbed into the BC Ferries s