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could discontinue their services when the road conditions were poor, the BC Express
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had begun and the company's attorney was engaged in war work and was unable to appear. His replacement, a junior partner with little experience, was unable to prepare and present the evidence properly and the company lost the case. With no substantive response by the dominion government, the company
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would lead the teams out to the stages only once the baggage had been secured and the passengers and driver were safely seated. Once harnessed to the stage, the reins were given to the driver and he could release the brake. The stage horses often leaped and reared at the start of a trip, but settled
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back towards Fort George and immediately wired the company's head office at
Ashcroft and informed them of the obstruction. The BC Express Company had the Board of Railway Commissioners investigate the situation and the Board came back in the company's favour and told the railway they must build the
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Barkerville. The company had originally been owned by William Jeffray and W.H. Thain and had been known as the Jeffray and Company's Fraser Express. In the summer of 1862, Barnard merged his company into the British Columbia and Victoria Express Company and won the government contract to deliver
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Company had a wide variety of stagecoaches. Some only required two horses and were called a "jerky", while others were pulled by four or six horses. Some had enclosed carriages and others were open. For winter travel, the stagecoaches were replaced by sleighs of all sizes, including
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ran until August 30, 1919, when she was punctured by an infamous rock called the "Woodpecker" and sank with a 100 tons of bagged cement intended for construction of the Deep Creek Bridge. In the spring of 1920, the salvage work was completed and at a cost of $ 40,000 the
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up from Fort George to Tête Jaune Cache when he was stopped a cable strung across the river at Mile 141 where the railway was building a bridge. The railway was reneging on their promise not to impede steamer travel on the river. Bucey turned the
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the PGE had slowed to a crawl and would in fact not to be completed to Prince George until 1952. In the meantime, the settlers and farmers needed a way to ship their produce to market and steamer fares were the most reasonable option.
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to Soda Creek was $ 27.50 and the steamer fare from there to Fort George was $ 17.50. Meals were 75 cents and a berth was $ 1.50. The stage freight charge was sixty dollars a ton and the steamer freight charge was forty dollars a ton.
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when hordes of adventurers were descending on the
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pushed her back upstream through the Fort George Canyon and to the shipyard at Fort George. This would be the first time in the history of sternwheelers that one would push another upriver through a canyon.
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William Ballou in 1858. Others soon followed, usually one or two man operations where the proprietor himself packed the express goods, either on his back or with the help of a trusty mule.
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underway, the sternwheelers were needed to help deliver equipment and food supplies to the work camps. In 1915, the railway insolvent, work ceased. Despite having a monopoly on river traffic, the
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on the riverbank at Fort George, where their hulls were abandoned., thus ending the days of the pioneer transportation company that
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some that could carry fifteen passengers. Many of the later stagecoaches were
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people at Fort George to buy the land that the GTP wanted for their townsite, forcing the GTP to sell some of that prime property to Millar, which he developed and was later called the
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into a smooth trot once they were underway. The whip rarely had to be used to encourage them, as they knew the next station meant a good feed and a warm stable.
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of Vancouver to supply and deliver in drums the gas and oil that the cars would need. The drums were then placed in key locations along the road.
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on its front panels. It cost $ 50 a day to ride in this famous coach, but many visiting diplomats and English
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and back. The coach was painted in the bright red and yellow BX colours and had the Canadian
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rode in the Dufferin when they went hunting in the Cariboo.
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318:In 1903 it was announced that the
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1022:from the original on 2 July 2007
991:Dictionary of Canadian Biography
984:Margaret A. Ormsby (1979–2016).
620:was reserved for special trips.
47:British Columbia Express Company
523:The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
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2118:Foley Bros., Welch and Stewart
1064:Steamboats of British Columbia
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880:Fort George Herald, 9 Aug 1913
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840:BX and the Rush to Fort George
714:BX and the Rush to Fort George
687:References and further reading
476:BX Cars at 149 Mile House 1912
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194:, who rode in it from Yale to
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2607:Transport in British Columbia
610:Pacific Great Eastern Railway
608:With the construction of the
451:Sternwheeler routes and fares
322:would be coming through from
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2597:Interior of British Columbia
97:Barnard's Express Office in
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996:University of Toronto Press
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320:Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
295:BC Express stage at Clinton
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842:. BC Historical Quarterly.
716:. BC Historical Quarterly.
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947:Leonard, Frank (1996).
740:Leonard, Frank (1996).
725:. Foremost Publishing.
676:Fraser Canyon Gold Rush
2555:Puget Sound steamboats
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955:. UBC Press. pp.
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2174:Alaska Marine Highway
2111:Passenger and freight
2016:Princess of Vancouver
922:Harvey, R.G. (1999).
897:West, Willis (1985).
838:West, Willis (1949).
802:West, Willis (1985).
712:West, Willis (1949).
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2143:Hudson's Bay Company
564:Charles Vance Millar
545:bridge at Mile 141 (
164:BC Express stage at
2209:Allied Shipbuilders
2148:Union Steamship Co.
1014:Cariboo Gold Rush.
1003:J. B. Kerr (1890).
994:(online ed.).
856:Downs, Art (1971).
721:Downs, Art (1971).
578:The wreck of the BX
425:The captain of the
400:The captain of the
113:In December, 1861,
2545:Retired BC ferries
2235:Frank P. Armstrong
2043:Retired BC ferries
1978:Queen of the North
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1118:Upper Fraser River
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408:, an experienced
353:The sternwheelers
347:South Fort George
74:Cariboo Gold Rush
43:Barnard's Express
27:Transport company
16:(Redirected from
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