firwoodFirwood
According to this private correspondence, the firwoodFirwood was a screw steamer, dispatched in September 1858, to transport passengers and trade from San Francisco to Victoria, and further up the Fraser River. Its presence, as a British-operated vessel, appears to have been necessitated by the number of competing American ships that were running the same route.
Mentions of this vessel in the documents
The Colonial Despatches Team. Firwood. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. The Colonial Despatches Team. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/firwood.html.

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