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Almost 100 years ago the last sternwheeler went down the Fraser River in the Cariboo
SHARE ON: S.S. Quesnel on the rocks (Photo supplied by Quesnel Museum)
A Quesnel Museum and Heritage Manager told Vista Radio the final sternwheeler that ran aground and eventually sank in the Fort George Canyon during May of 1921.
Elizabeth Hunter said it was originally called the City of Quesnel.
(Photo supplied by Quesnel Museum)
“It was built by John Strand, who built the Cariboo Hotel on Front Street and our first hospital and lots of other things in town. It sounded like it didn’t do well on its first voyages, so in the same year, it was lengthened. The quote is used that it was lengthened and its name was shortened, so it became ‘the Quesnel.’ From 1919 to 1921 it mostly ran between Quesnel and Fort George.”