enterpriseEnterprise
According to this despatch, the steamship enterpriseEnterprise 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 enterpriseEnterprise 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.
Mentions of this vessel in the documents
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Douglas, Sir James to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 22 January 1859, CO 60:4,
no. 2741, 89.
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The Colonial Despatches: Klatsassin
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Fraser, Donald to Grenville, Richard 9 August 1867, CO 60:31, no. 7739, 241.