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Connecting The Kootenays
Connecting The Kootenays chronicles a century of ferry service across Kootenay Lake BC. This book follows the ferry service from its beginnings in 1921, when it first linked the East and West Kootenays together as part of the visionary Southern Trans Provincial highway, right up until its 100th anniversary in 2020, when the existing two ferry operation was turning another page with the introduction of a new electric ready ferry with state of the art technology. The story starts with coal-fired CPR sternwheelers with graceful and luxurious accommodations and then moves through the post Second World War era of modern diesel roll on, roll off ferries and finishes the promise of ultra modern electric propulsion.
This is a book you Michael Cone became captivated by the history of navigation on
Kootenay Lake when, as a youngster, he peered down at the underwater remains of
the Kuskanook The book sells for $45.00 (shipping extra – please enquire) (ISBN
Site News: August 18, 2024
The vessel database has been updated and is now holding 93,618 vessel histories (with 15,919 images and 13,842 records of ship wrecks and marine disasters). The mariner and naval biography database has also been updated and now contains 58,620 entries (with 4,020 images).
In 2023 the Nauticapedia celebrated the 50th Anniversary of it’s original inception in 1973 (initially it was on 3" x 5" file cards). It has developed, expanded, digitized and enlarged in those ensuing years to what it is now online. If it was printed out it would fill more than 300,000 pages!
My special thanks to our volunteer IT adviser, John Eyre, who (since 2021) has modernized, simplified and improved the update process for the databases into semi–automated processes. His participation has been vital to keeping the Nauticapedia available to our netizens.
Also my special thanks to my volunteer content accuracy checker, John Spivey of Irvine CA USA, who has proofread thousands of Nauticapedia vessel histories and provided input to improve more than 11,000 entries. His attention to detail has been a huge unexpected bonus in improving and updating the vessel detail content.