&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Hazelton_sternwheeler.gif) Hazelton on the Skeena River
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| Name | Hazelton |
| Laid down | 1900 in Victoria, British Columbia |
| Launched | 1901 for the Skeena River |
| In service | 1901–1912 |
| Fate | Sold and converted to a clubhouse for the Prince Rupert Yacht Club |
| Notes | Captain John Bonser 1901-04 Captain Joseph Bucey |
Hazelton was a sternwheeler that worked on the Skeena River in British Columbia, Canada from 1901 until 1912. Her first owner was Robert Cunningham who ran a freighting business that served the communities along the Skeena River.
Hazelton was named after one of the communities she served, Hazelton, which was one of the oldest towns in Northern British Columbia, having been founded in 1866 and was the main staging area for the Omineca Gold Rush.
Robert Cunningham had Hazelton built to run against the sternwheelers of the Hudson's Bay Company, Caledonia and Strathcona. To design and pilot her, Cunningham hired veteran white-water skipper John Bonser, who went down to Victoria in the winter of 1900 to help in the details of her design and construction.[1]: 65
- ^ Downs, Art (1971). Paddlewheels on the Frontier Volume 1. Foremost Publishing. pp. various. ISBN 0-88826-033-4.