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Chief Commissioner (HBC vessel)

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After being stripped of her steam engine the Chief Commissioner (right) was converted to a floating warehouse.

Chief Commissioner was a Hudson's Bay Company propeller driven steamship intended for operation on the Saskatchewan River. She was launched in May, 1872, in Fort Garry. However, her draft was too deep, and for her three years of operation, she provided service on Lake Winnipeg. She was retired in 1875, with her components cannibalized and used in other vessels.

References

  1. Ted Barris (2015-09-26). Fire Canoe: Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited. Dundurn Press 2015. ISBN 9781459732100. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  2. Martha McCarthy (1987). "Steamboats on the rivers and lakes of Manitoba: 1859-96" (PDF). Operated on Lake Winnipeg. Had been designed for Lake Manitoba but could not proceed up the Little Saskatchewan (Dauphin) River. Used as a freighter on Lake Winnipeg to Grand Rapids. Flat bottom unsuitable for Lake Winnipeg and declared unsafe.

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