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Pitt River Ferry: Crossed the Pitt River between Pitt Meadows and what is now Port Coquitlam. Vessel Unknown Conventional - Gasoline Engine [23] Vehicle capacity not known. Passenger capacity not known. Unknown. George Mouldey with subsidies from the Government of British Columbia. [24] [25] Ran from 27 September 1902 [26] until March 1915. [27]
From about 1859, Otis Parsons, who supervised the team that built the section of the Douglas Road to the head of Anderson Lake, operated the Parsonville ferry until his death. [2] About opposite the Seton River mouth, this prospectors' shanty town sprang up on the east bank of the Fraser. [3]
Although the cross river ferry is not mentioned until the early 1890s, [59] a basic service must have existed for years. The 1894 floods destroyed a bridge across a back channel of the Columbia near the landing. [60] In the late 1890s, Chas. Cartwright was the proprietor of McMurdo House. [61] [62]
The ferry terminal landing is accessed from British Columbia Highway 1 by taking exit 53 into Port Kells, Surrey and proceeding to the end of 104th Avenue. [31] The ferry operates under private contract with the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and is free of tolls, as are all inland ferries in British Columbia. [33]
This is a list of bridges, tunnels, and other crossings of the Fraser River in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It includes both functional crossings and historic crossings which no longer exist, and lists them in sequence from the South Arm of the Fraser River at the Strait of Georgia upstream to its source .
To operate the ferry, rudders are used to ensure that the pontoons are angled into the current, causing the force of the current to move the ferry across the river. [2] The ferry operates under contract to the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation, is free of tolls, and runs on demand between 0700 and 1900. It carries a maximum of 2 cars ...
BC Ferries from Departure Bay to Horseshoe Bay: Metro Vancouver: West Vancouver: 0.00: 0.00: To Highway 101 north – Gibsons, Powell River: Access via BC ferries; westbound access only: Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal: 0.35: 0.22: Keith Road: At-grade intersection, no westbound entrance; west end of freeway: 0.61: 0.38: 0: Marine Drive: Horseshoe ...
Ferries of the Owen Sound Transportation Company (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Ferries of Ontario" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.