Steamboat Saga
Smooth rivers and great lakes once were the highways of travel. On them plied stately paddle-wheelers, helping exploration and settlement of the Interior. They speeded goldseekers bound for the 'Big Bend' rush of 1864-65. They freighted grain from the Okanagan. They were vital in building the C.P.R. - and doomed by the railway they helped to build.
From BC's Stops of Interest