The Northland Sun was a sternwheel steam ship, built in 1909, that operated on the Mackenzie River system.[1] She was the fourth steamboat to be built locally at Athabasca Landing, the Northern End of an overland route connecting the Saskatchewan River to the Athabasca River and the Mackenzie River system.[2]
In 1910 J.K. Cornwall and Herbert Vanderhoof, owners and local promoters, invited journalists and scientists for a free trip on the first voyage of the season.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Ted Barris (2015-09-26). Fire Canoe: Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited. Dundurn Press 2015. ISBN 9781459732100. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
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"Boatbuilding at Athabasca Landing". Retrieved 2020-08-23.
The first steamboat built and launched at Athabasca Landing was the Hudson's Bay Company's S.S. Athabasca (1888). This was rivalled by the Northern Transportation's Midnight Sun (1904) and Northern Light, and later the NTC built the Northland Sun (1909), Northland Call (1910), Northland Star (1911), and Northland Echo (1912).
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