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The Needles Ferry is a cable ferry across Lower Arrow Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. Linking Needles and Fauquier , the ferry, part of BC Highway 6 , is by road about 135 kilometres (84 mi) southeast of Vernon and 57 kilometres (35 mi) southwest of Nakusp .
Needles Cable Ferry: Crosses Lower Arrow Lake between Fauquier and Needles, on BC Highway 6. M.V. Needles: Cable: 40 135 5 minutes Waterbridge Ferries Incorporated [14] Upper Arrow Lake Ferry: Crosses Upper Arrow Lake between Shelter Bay and Galena Bay at the junction of BC highways 23 and 31. M.V. Columbia: Conventional 80 250 20 minutes
In 2019, a ferry crew observed a submerged pickup truck just off the Needles ferry landing. Police divers recovered the body of a 60-year-old man. [9] That year, a 35-year-old man, who abandoned his pickup truck at Fauquier, was missing for over a year, before his remains were discovered along the shoreline to the north. [10]
Fauquier (/ f oʊ ˈ k ɪər /) [3] is an unincorporated place on the east shore of Lower Arrow Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. [1] The eastern terminal for the Needles Ferry , the landing on Highway 6 is 57 kilometres (35 mi) south of Nakusp .
The Upper Arrow Lake Ferry is a ferry across Upper Arrow Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. Linking Shelter Bay and Galena Bay , the ferry, part of BC Highway 23 , is by road about 52 kilometres (32 mi) south of Revelstoke and 47 kilometres (29 mi) north of Nakusp .
MS Chi-Cheemaun is a Canadian passenger and vehicle ferry in Ontario, Canada, which traverses Lake Huron between Tobermory on the Bruce Peninsula and South Baymouth on Manitoulin Island. The ferry connects the two geographically separate portions of Highway 6 and is the vessel that replaced MS Norgoma and SS Norisle in 1974. The ferry service ...
In 1909 the Calendar company sold Queen to Captain Jack Reid (d.1929), a veteran Columbia River ferry operator, who placed the launch in service between Kalama, Washington and Goble, Oregon. [ 15 ]
The Kingston-Edmonds ferry will remain its current alternative schedule, with one-boat service for the popular route. Vessels depart roughly every 90 minutes through the day on the holiday and Friday.