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On July 21, 2003, Spirit of Vancouver Island collided with the dock at Swartz Bay. [37] Four passengers suffered minor injuries. The accident caused tens of thousands of dollars of damage to the dock and the ship. On October 9, 2009, a standby generator on Spirit of Vancouver Island caught fire on an early morning sailing out of Swartz Bay ...
Queen of Alberni was built by Vancouver Shipyards Co. Ltd. in North Vancouver, British Columbia in 1976. She joined two other C-class ferries built in that year, Queen of Coquitlam and Queen of Cowichan. Two additional C-class ferries, Queen of Surrey and Queen of Oak Bay, were built in 1981. [2] The Queen of Alberni arriving at Swartz Bay in 1980
A CN Marine car ferry that ran aground and sank off Little Hope Island, near Port Mouton. Christmas Seal Canada: 13 May 1976 A floating medical clinic that struck a reef off the Eastern Shore. HMCS Clayoquot Royal Canadian Navy: 24 December 1944 A Bangor-class minesweeper that was torpedoed by U-806 near Sambro Island Light
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1944 Montreal RAF Liberator VI crash: Aircrash Montreal, Quebec Central Canada 15 1945 March 6 S.S. Green Hill Park explosion Explosion Vancouver, BC West Coast 8 [12] 1946 June 23: Vancouver Island earthquake: Earthquake Vancouver Island, BC West Coast 2 1946 September 18: 1946 SABENA DC-4 crash: Aircrash near Gander, Newfoundland: Atlantic ...
Highway 18 is a short main vehicle route in the Cowichan Valley Regional District on Vancouver Island, connecting the city of Duncan on the Trans-Canada Highway with the community of Lake Cowichan, on the shore of Cowichan Lake. [2] The highway first opened to vehicle traffic in 1953, and was re-routed to a straighter and wider alignment in 1970.
A late afternoon shooting left at least one man injured at the Tiger’s Express gas station on Lady’s Island. Unrelated to the shooting, a vehicle accident tied up traffic for more than a mile ...
MV Queen of the North was a roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ferry built by AG Weser of Germany and operated by BC Ferries, which ran along an 18-hour route along the British Columbia Coast of Canada between Port Hardy and Prince Rupert, British Columbia, a route also known as the Inside Passage.