&sq=&lang=&file=File:SS_Skeena.gif) GTP sternwheeler Skeena
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| Name | Skeena |
| Laid down | 1908 in Victoria, British Columbia |
| Launched | 1909 on the Skeena River |
| In service | 1909-1925 |
| Fate | Sold and converted to a barge in 1925 |
| Notes | Captain Magar 1909-1911 Charles Seymour 1914-1925 |
The Skeena 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 from 1909 until 1911. She was built at Robertson's yard in Coal Harbour, Vancouver, in 1908. The other four were the Conveyor, the Operator, 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.