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MV Coho in Victoria Harbour, British Columbia, Canada Looking back on the bridge, from the bow The MV Coho is a passenger and vehicle ferry owned and operated by Black Ball Line . [ 2 ] Black Ball's only ferry, Coho carries passengers and cars, motorcycles, trucks, semi-trailers , bicycles, etc. between Victoria , British Columbia , Canada and ...
MV Coho in Victoria Harbour, British Columbia, Canada. The Puget Sound Navigation Company (PSNC) was founded by Charles E. Peabody in 1898. [1] Today the company operates an international passenger and vehicle ferry service between Port Angeles, Washington, United States and Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on the MV Coho, [2] through its operating company, Black Ball Ferry Line.
Set up in 1960 to provide a similar service to that provided by the Black Ball Line and the Canadian Pacific Railway, which were affected by job action at the time, BC Ferries has become the largest passenger ferry line in North America, [2] operating a fleet of 41 vessels with a total passenger and crew capacity of over 27,000, serving 47 ...
The ferry system carried a total of 18.66 million riders in 2023—9.69 million passengers and 8.97 million vehicles. [3] WSF is the largest ferry system in the United States and the second-largest vehicular ferry system in the world behind BC Ferries. [4] The state ferries carried an average of 59,900 per weekday in the third quarter of 2024.
Victoria: 0.00: 0.00: Oswego Street / Belleville Street – Ferry Terminal: Southern terminus; Belleville Street continues west; Black Ball Ferries to Port Angeles; Victoria Clipper passenger ferry to Seattle: 0.60: 0.37: Douglas Street (Highway 1 (TCH)) – Nanaimo: At-grade, traffic signals: 1.30: 0.81: Blanshard Street: Hwy 17 turns north ...
The ferry services run by the Black Ball Line (between Victoria's Inner Harbour and Port Angeles, Washington), BC Ferries (between Swartz Bay and Tsawwassen), or the Washington State Ferries (between Sidney, British Columbia and Anacortes, Washington) do not serve Seattle or come near the downtown harbours of either Victoria or Vancouver.
In 1902, the VTRF acquired the Victoria and Sidney Railway (V&S). [3] In May 1903, the VTRF opened the short Cloverdale–Port Guichon railway link and commenced the Port Guichon–Sidney train ferry that connected with the V&S. [4] This daily ferry service carried passengers and up to eight railway freight cars. [5] The wharf largely ...
The Black Ball Line (originally known as the Wright, Thompson, Marshall, & Thompson Line, then as the Old Line) was a passenger line founded by a group of New York Quaker merchants headed by Jeremiah Thompson, and included Isaac Wright & Son (William), Francis Thompson and Benjamin Marshall. All were Quakers except Marshall.