&sq=&lang=&file=File:Operator_on_Skeena.gif) Operator on Skeena River in 1911
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| History | |
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| Name | Operator |
| Laid down | 1908 in Victoria for Skeena River |
| Launched | 1909 on Skeena River May 12, 1912 on Fraser River |
| In service | 1909–1914 |
| Reinstated | Rebuilt in 1911 at Tête Jaune Cache for Fraser River |
| Fate | Retired in 1914 |
| Notes | Captain "Con" Myers |
| General characteristics | |
| Length | 141.7 ft (43.2 m) |
| Beam | 34.8 ft (10.6 m) |
| Notes | No.130886 |
The Operator sternwheeler was one of five sternwheelers built for the use on the Skeena River by Foley, Welch and Stewart for construction work on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. The other four were the Conveyor, the Skeena, the Distributor and the Omineca. Three of these, the Conveyor, the Operator and the Distributor were built at Victoria, British Columbia, in 1908 by Alexander Watson Jr.[1]
- ^ West, Willis (1949). The BX and the Rush to Fort George. British Columbia Historical Quarterly. p. 185.