Camosun


CAMOSUN  () was a UNION STEAMSHIP CO vessel, built in Scotland and launched in 1905. The next year it pioneered the company's run to PRINCE RUPERT and the SALMON CANNERIES of the North Coast, a route it worked for 30 years carrying workers and supplies to the fish plants and returning to VANCOUVER loaded with cases of SALMON. The ship was 58.7 m long with a gross weight of 1,232 tonnes and room for 199 passengers and 270 tonnes of cargo. In...

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