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Nautical Nights Speaker Series: Robert Turner

Thu. February 22nd 2018 Maritime Museum of BC $8-$10

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Nautical Nights Speaker Series: Robert Turner:

Join us for our fifth Nautical Nights Speaker Series, featuring Robert Turner! ...
Event can be attended in person In-Person Event
Thu. February 22nd 2018 + Add to Calendar Maritime Museum of BC (All Ages)
7:00pm  Doors at: 6:30pm $10 general or $8 members

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Join us for our fifth Nautical Nights Speaker Series, featuring Robert Turner!

Doors open at 6:30pm, talk starts at 7:00pm.

Drinks will be available.

Member price: $8
General price: $10
To become a member visit here:
http://mmbc.bc.ca/get-involved/become-a-member/

LIMITED SEATING! Tickets available here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/nautical-nights-speaker-series-tickets-38550770392

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Talk Summary: Canadian Pacific’s B.C. Coast Steamship Service and the Challenges of the Coast

The Canadian Pacific’s Princess steamships helped shape the history of coastal British Columbia, Washington and Alaska from the early 1900s until the 1970s. Not only were they some of the finest vessels working on the entire Pacific Coast of North America, they were also some of the fastest and most luxurious. Elegant and well built, they carried generations of thousands of travellers, families, seasonal workers, members of the armed forces, trappers, miners, loggers and others on fast inter-city services, on cruises to Alaska, and on services to remote logging camps, fish canneries, mines and settlements.

The west coast is treacherous, and it has claimed many fine vessels including the Princess Sophia in 1918 and the Princess Kathleen in 1953 and most recently the Queen of the North. It took skill and experience to navigate this rugged coast especially in the days before many areas were systematically charted, and when GPS, radar and other modern aids to navigation where just distant dreams.

The Princesses became legends along the coast and decades after they have passed into history, vessels such as the Princess Maquinna, Princess Joan, Princess May, Princess Mary, Princess Marguerite and Princess Kathleen are well remembered.

The program will feature many photographs and stories of the Princesses and the people who travelled or worked on them.

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Maritime Museum of BC
744 Douglas Street
Multi-Purpose / Hall
Capacity100
Fully Accessible see details
since 1955

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Nautical Nights Speaker Series: Robert Turner @ Maritime Museum of BC Feb 22 2018 - Nov 5th @ Maritime Museum of BC

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