SS Moyie, National Historic Site, Kaslo, BC
The SS Moyie is the oldest, intact, passenger carrying sternwheeler in the world.
It has been lovingly restored by the people of Kaslo since the village 'bought' her from Canadian Pacific for $1.00, in the 1970's.
Visit the SS Moyie from 10.00 till 5.00, 7 days a week, from Mother's Day, in May until the end of October.
Music by local band, Merryweather.
Video donated to the KLHS by Kootenay TV.
S.S. Moyie - The World's Oldest Intact Passenger Sternwheeler - Kalso BC Canada
The Moyie is a paddle steamer sternwheeler that worked on Kootenay Lake in British Columbia, Canada from 1898 until 1957.
After her nearly sixty years of service, she was sold to the town of Kaslo and restored. Today she is a National Historic Site of Canada and the world's oldest intact passenger sternwheeler.
Inside the SS Moyie a National Historic Site
Some of the areas inside the SS Moyie located at Kaslo British Columbia. The only surviving fully intact passenger stern wheel ship in the world. The Moyie travelled Kootenay Lake in British Columbia from 1898 until is was retired in 1957.
SS Moyie and SS Nasookin at Procter
The Outlet Hotel in Procter was a popular spot for Sunday picnics. This film clip by the Reverend George R.B. Kinney in the late 1920's shows a group arriving by sternwheeler at the Hotel for a day of festivities.
Construction of the SS Moyie in 1898 connected the thriving city of Nelson BC with southern Alberta via sternwheeler service to Kootenay Landing.
The SS Moyie and her sister ship the SS Minto (built at Nakusp for service on the Arrow Lakes), were originally destined for the Stikine River to transport people to the Klondike gold rush. When that fever died out, the steel hulls and machinery that had been fabricated in Toronto, Ontario by the Bertram Engine Works were sent to the West Kootenay. A team of riveters assembled the SS Moyie and the carpenters, painters, metalworkers and boilermakers at the Nelson CPR Shipyard completed the task. The SS Moyie, named for a settlement along the newly established Crows Nest route, was launched on October 22, 1898. Its first trip was from Nelson to Kootenay Landing to celebrate the opening of the new rail line that connected the West Kootenay region with Southern Alberta.
In 1957, after 59 years of continuous service, the SS Moyie was retired. It is now a National Historic Site, preserved in Kaslo by the Kootenay Lake Historical Society.
for more info see
SS Moyie-Kaslo.BC-part 1
SS Moyie - The Oldest intact passenger steam vessel
S.S Moyie 1898 Replica.
The S.S. Moyie, built in 1898, was originally intended to ferry miners to the Klondike gold rush, instead the Canadian Pacific Railway put her to use on Kootenay Lake to ferry passengers from its rail terminal at Kootenay Landing to Nelson, B.C. She was named Moyie after a prosperous mining community in the region, which in turn got its name from the French word for wet, mouillé. With a 4½-hour travel time across the lake, the S.S. Moyie was gradually replaced and demoted over the next 40 years. In 1957, she was North America's oldest sternwheeler still in service, and was retired and sold to the city of Kaslo, B.C., where she was made into a museum. In 1965, Heritage Park commissioned the building of a half-size replica of the S.S. Moyie, which uses a diesel engine.
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S.S. Moyie
Located in Kaslo, BC, The tour of this fine vessel is well worth the time.
SS Moyie - Kaslo .BC -Part 2
SS Moyie - The Oldest intact passenger steam vessel
Film of a CPR Steam Train to Kootenay Lake and then the SS Moyie on the lake circa 1939
Edited excerpts from archival film [Kootenay, ca. 1939], filmed by Francis J. Barrow. In the BC Archives collection
Original footage courtesy of the Royal BC Museum
Village of Kaslo
Regular meeting 2018.12.11
S.S. MOYIE
A walk through of the freight deck of the S.S. Moyie
David Rasmussen on the SS Moyie.mp4
Colorado-based author David Rasmussen talks about his forthcoming book, LEGEND OF THE SPIRIT BEAR, from the pilot house of the SS Moyie, a stately sternwheeler not unlike the sturdy Missouri River vessel that features prominently in Rasmussen's exciting tale of adventure, death, love, and the compelling conflict between encroaching White Americans and the Plateau tribes of the inland Pacific Northwest.
SS Moyie
In Kaslo - part of the saloon deck.
Kaslo, BC Now & Then
The municipality of Kaslo, BC will reach the grand old age of 125 on August 12, 2018. Enjoy some scenes of Kaslo's past and present.
Photos courtesy of the Kootenay Lake Archives and the Kaslo Chamber of Commerce.
Riding the S.S. Moyie at Heritage Park
Riding the S.S. Moyie at Heritage Park on Aug. 19, 2016.
Northwest Profiles: End of an Era
Produced in 1995, End of an Era chronicles the History of the SS Moyie on British Columbia's Kootenay Lake. Now the Moyie is preserved as a museum that is located on the shore at Kaslo, BC.
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Heritage Park
Heritage Park is Calgary, Alberta, Canada is visited on August 3, 2013. It's a historic attraction and provides you with a glimpse into the past of Western Canada. It's a great visit and nice way to spend an afternoon!
Music Acknowledgement: My Brothers Keeper by Jsin - (Creative Commons license - jamendo.com)
BC Highway 31, Northbound - part 1 of 3 - time lapse
Highway 31 is a route through the Selkirk mountains in British Columbia. The Southern end is at Balfour on Highway 3A where the ferry across Kootenay Lake docks. The Northern end is a few kilometers South of the Galena Bay ferry on Highway 23.
The Highway travels North from Balfour along the West shore of Kootenay Lake passing by a number of small towns and campgrounds.
Many of the towns along here were started as mining towns. Kaslo, where this video ends, is one such town which has many well preserved buildings as well as a restored river boat, the S.S. Moyie.
This was filmed on August 14, 2012.
The music used is Roll On Down the Highway by Bachman-Turner Overdrive.