Salt Spring Island Archives
The Iroquois began serving the Gulf Islands in 1901 and continued until it sank off Sidney in stormy weather in 1911.
From The Driftwood, September 3, 1964:
We were pleased that our recent article and picture of early Ganges has apparently been interesting to many of our readers because it has raised some questions and comment on the early boats plying these waters.
We learned last week that, contrary to the article the ‘Rainbow’, was not the boat pictured in the early photograph, but that of the ‘Shearwater’, another frequent visitor to these coasts. We were also advised that the S.S. ‘Joan’ was not the first passenger boat but was preceded by the ‘Iroquois’. We were able, through the kindness of Mrs. A.R. Price to obtain this week's pictures of this vessel taken when she called at this Island during the early years of this century.
There is an interesting story of the ‘Iroquois’ demise when she foundered and sank off Sidney on her way to the Islands. She was tied up at the Sidney Wharf overnight after having been loaded with a heavy deck load of hay. Captain Sears, her Master, had several of his passengers cancel their passage because they did not relish travel ling with so great a load. It turned out they were very wise, since the boat's deck load shifted in heavy seas the next day after leaving Sidney and the boat went down with heavy casualties. Many of the victims were washed up on the beach at Roberts Point just north of Sidney.
In those days, of course, there were no regulations governing the size of loads or numbers of passengers carried on these ships, so that a traveller had to rely pretty well on the wisdom of the seamen they travelled with. It is interesting to note that this kind of tragedy was relatively rare in spite of the greater hazard of the seas.
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Accession number: 2006031744
Accession number: 227
Accession number: 603
Accession number: 50377
Accession number: 50387
Accession number: 50388
Accession number: 992112013
Accession number: 2006031410
Accession number: 2006031412
Accession number: 2006031503
Accession number: 2006031640
Accession number: 2006031733
Accession number: 2006031734
Accession number: 2006031736
Accession number: 2006031741
Accession number: b41
Accession number: iroqois005
Accession number: iroqois006
Accession number: iroqois007
Accession number: iroqois008
Accession number: iroqois009
Accession number: Iroquois
Accession number: jl005
Accession number: jl007
Accession number: M118_Iroquois_Prin-EBBB1A
Accession number: M118_Iroquois_Prin-EBBCB2
Accession number: M119_Iroquois_Ganges_1907
Accession number: M120_Iroquois_at_Wharf
Accession number: M122_Iroquois_on_Deck
Accession number: M123_Iroquois_Georg-EBBB17
Accession number: M323_The_Iroquois
S.S. Iroquois at Fulford Wharf (1905) - 20050161008
Collection: Boats and Ships
Source: Joane Neudecker
Accession number: 20050161008a
This boat is probably not the Winnimac.
Collection: Bittancourt Collection
Source: Joane Neudecker
Accession number: Winnimac
Collection:
Source: Joane Neudecker
Accession number: VesuviusDock
Collection: Ruckle Family photographic collection - 992112013
Source: Joane Neudecker
Accession number: 992112013
I believe this boat is the Winnimac.
Collection: 2001043434
Source: Joane Neudecker
Accession number: 434
Arriving in Ganges 1907
Collection: Toynbee Collection - 1994.137.288
Source: Joane Neudecker
Accession number: 50388
Vesuvius Dock • 99222172
Collection: Bittancourt Collection
Source: Joane Neudecker
Accession number: 172
S.S. Iroquois & Princess Charmer at Ganges, c.1910
Collection: Toynbee Collection - 1994.137.287
Source: Joane Neudecker
Accession number: 50387
1994.137.273 (V&S Train)
Collection: Toynbee Collection
Source: Joane Neudecker
Accession number: 50373
1994.137.276
Collection: Toynbee Collection
Source: Joane Neudecker
Accession number: 50376
