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This is a list of steamboats and related vessels which operated on the Columbia river and its tributaries and in the state of Oregon, including its coastal areas. This should not be considered a complete list. Information for some vessels may be lacking, or sources may be in conflict.
The Willamette River flows northwards down the Willamette Valley until it meets the Columbia River at a point 101 miles (163 km) [2] from the mouth of the Columbia. In the natural condition of the river, Portland was the farthest point on the river where the water was deep enough to allow ocean-going ships.
The Columbia River begins at Columbia Lake, flows north in the trench through the Columbia Valley to Windermere Lake to Golden, British Columbia.The Kootenay River flows south from the Rocky Mountains, then west into the Rocky Mountain Trench, coming within just over a mile (1.6 km) from Columbia Lake, at a point called Canal Flats, where a shipping canal was built in 1889.
Okanogan coming downstream on the Okanogan River, circa 1910. Prior to the construction of dams, open navigability was never established throughout the Columbia.This was an important difference from the Mississippi-Ohio River system, which in the right season, and with a canal around the Falls of the Ohio, was navigable from New Orleans to Pittsburgh, an enormous distance.
Pages in category "Steamboats of the Columbia River" The following 110 pages are in this category, out of 110 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Marion somewhere in inland British Columbia ca 1890. The first steamboat on the route was the Forty-Nine, built to service a brief gold rush on the Big Bend of the Columbia River, attempting the run from Marcus, Washington Territory, just above Kettle Falls, to La Porte, one of the main boomtowns of the rush, which was sited at the foot of the infamous and also impassable Dalles des Morts or ...
The Columbia, a common steamboat name, was a sternwheeler build at 1893 at Little Dalles, and operating up the Arrow Lakes route of the Columbia River. The fire of Columbia was less spectacular than of Telephone, but the destruction was just as swift and more complete. On August 2, 1894, while lying at a woodlot just north of the Canada–US ...
Steamboats at the Okanogan wharf, May 1909. While these vessels are in active service, in six years almost all steamboat activity on the Columbia River above Wenatchee will have ceased. Settlement in the Okanogan region decreased starting in about 1910. [3]
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