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  2. List of inland ferries in British Columbia - Wikipedia

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    Barnston Island Ferry: Crosses the Parsons Channel on the Fraser River between Port Kells and Barnston Island. M.V. Centurion VI (Tugboat) + Barnston Island Replacement Barge (Barge) Tugboat and Barge: 5 52 5 minutes Western Pacific Marine [4] Big Bar Reaction Ferry: Crosses the Fraser River northwest of Clinton. Vessel Unknown Reaction: 2 12 ...

  3. Lillooet ferries and bridges (Fraser River) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Barnston Island Ferry - Wikipedia

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    The Barnston Island Ferry is a ferry that runs across Parson's Channel (on the south side of the Fraser River) between Barnston Island and Port Kells, Surrey, in Metro Vancouver. History [ edit ]

  5. Parson, British Columbia - Wikipedia

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    Parson is an unincorporated community on the east shore of the Columbia River, in the Columbia Valley region of southeastern British Columbia. [1] The locality, on BC Highway 95 , is by road about 212 kilometres (132 mi) north of Cranbrook and 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of Golden .

  6. Parsonville, British Columbia - Wikipedia

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    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] Presumably, he employed others to run the day-to-day affairs. From 1871, he was captaining Fraser River steamboats [3] and drowned in 1875. [4]

  7. Big Bar Ferry - Wikipedia

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    To operate the ferry, rudders are used to ensure that the pontoons are angled into the current, causing the force of the current to move the ferry across the river. [2] The ferry operates under contract to the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation, is free of tolls, and runs on demand between 0700 and 1900. It carries a maximum of 2 cars ...

  8. Canadian Pacific Railway Coast Service - Wikipedia

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    In 1884, CPR began purchasing sailing ships as part of a railway supply service on the Great Lakes.Over time, CPR became a railroad company with widely organized water transportation auxiliaries including the Canadian Pacific Railway Upper Lake Service (Great Lakes), the trans-Pacific service, the British Columbia Coast Service, the British Columbia Lake and River Service, the trans-Atlantic ...

  9. List of crossings of the Fraser River - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of bridges, tunnels, and other crossings of the Fraser River in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It includes both functional crossings and historic crossings which no longer exist, and lists them in sequence from the South Arm of the Fraser River at the Strait of Georgia upstream to its source .