The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Enterprise
According to this despatch, the steamship Enterprise departed from Fort Langley, up the Fraser River to Fort Hope, under the command of
Colonel Moody, accompanied by 100 Seaman and Marines, in January of 1859.
The vessel and party were sent as a police force, and, according to Lillard, by the
late summer 1864 the Enterprise accessed Sooke Inlet with approximately 100 commuters a day.1
1. Charles Lillard, Seven Shillings a Year: The History of Vancouver Island (Ganges: Horsdal and Schubart Publishers Ltd., 1986), 114.