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The first steamship to ply the Mackenzie River watershed was on the Athabasca River in 1882, and its name was SS Grahame, a sternwheeler built by the HBC, operating from Athabasca Landing north of Edmonton to the Slave River rapids, the only significant obstacle en route to the Mackenzie.
Distributor was a steamship built for service on the Mackenzie River System. [1] The fast moving waters of the Mackenzie River, and the lower reaches of many of its tributaries, were navigable. Cargo was transported to the north on the Slave River, and had to be portaged overland over a long portage between Fort Smith and Fort Fitzgerald. Some ...
The St. Alphonse was a small steamship operated by the Brothers of the Oblate Order of Mary Immaculate, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. [1] The order built a small fleet of steamboats to transit the Mackenzie River and its tributaries. Although fastmoving, the Mackenzie River is navigable along its entire length.
The Wrigley was a wooden steamship operated by the Hudson's Bay Company on the Mackenzie River, and its tributaries, including the Peel River, Great Slave Lake, and the lower reaches of the Slave River. [1] She was built on the Slave River, downstream of the very large rapids between Fort Smith and Fitzgerald, Alberta, in 1885. [1]
The Mackenzie River has a similar range of fish fauna to the Mississippi River system. It is believed that the two river systems were connected during the Ice Ages by meltwater lakes and channels, allowing fish in the two rivers to interbreed. [48] Fish in the Mackenzie River proper include the northern pike, several minnow species, and lake ...
The Mackenzie River was a steamship built by the Hudson's Bay Company, to transport passengers and cargo on the river of the same name. [ 1 ] She was designed in 1906, and completed and launched in 1908.
The first incident took place at 2:01 p.m. when rescue crews were dispatched to the McKenzie River between Hayden Bridge and Harvest Landing in Springfield.
Northland Echo was a sternwheel steamship operated by the Northern Transportation Company on the Mackenzie River system. [ 1 ] In 1910 the vessel carried the first buffalo to the new Buffalo National Park in Alberta.