Dowager Queen

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Dowager Queen

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The Hudson's Bay SS Beaver

Written by Bill Hagelund

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engineering, in it's entire diverse ramifications, was just beginning to be realized as the 1800s unfolded. Men who could grasp its principals and shape its potential to their needs were to become the new giants of commerce. Captain William A. Hagelund is uniquely positioned to write a history of HBC's SS Beaver, the ship that did more than any other to explore and open the rugged BC coast. Over more than half a century the tiny, rugged ship was a familiar sight as she chugged up the BC waters, charting, trading, helping administer justice, carrying freight and generally serving as a lifeline and contact between the many isolated coastal communities and the outside world. In 1986, her exact replica, SS Beaver, was launched with Captain Hagelund as master. From then until he retired in 1995, Captain Hagelund, who first went to sea in 1940, and the new Beaver retraced many of the original's coastal voyages.

ISBN-13: 9780888394866
Publisher: Hancock House
Imprint: Hancock House
Publication date: 15 May 2003
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Dimensions: 216 x 140 mm
Illustrations: Historical b/w photo section.
Language: English