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| Title: | Dowager Queen
: The Hudson's Bay Company SS Beaver |
| Author: | Bill Hagelund |
| ISBN: | 0888394861 : 9780888394866 |
| Illustrations: | 36 b/w photos & 5 illus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 140x215mm |
| Pages: | 166 |
| Weight: | .234 Kg. |
| Published: | Hancock House - March 2004 |
| List Price: | 9.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Ships & shipping: general interest |
Captain William A. Hagelund is uniquely positioned to write a history of HBC's SS Beaver, the ship that did more than any other to explore and open the rugged BC coast. Over more than half a century the tiny, rugged ship was a familiar sight as she chugged up the BC waters, charting, trading, helping administer justice, carrying freight and generally serving as a lifeline and contact between the many isolated coastal communities and the outside world. In 1986, her exact replica, SS Beaver, was launched with Captain Hagelund as master. From then until he retired in 1995, Captain Hagelund, who first went to sea in 1940, and the new Beaver retraced many of the original's coastal voyages.
""A valuable work in recording Canada's mercantile past" - The Nautical Magazine, October 2004.
