Chief Commissioner (HBC vessel)

After being stripped of her steam engine the Chief Commissioner (right) was converted to a floating warehouse.

Chief Commissioner was a Hudson's Bay Company propeller driven steamship intended for operation on the Saskatchewan River.^[1] She was launched in May, 1872, in Fort Garry. However, her draft was too deep, and for her three years of operation, she provided service on Lake Winnipeg.^[2] She was retired in 1875, with her components cannibalized and used in other vessels.

References

↑ Ted Barris (2015-09-26). Fire Canoe: Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited. Dundurn Press 2015. ISBN 9781459732100. Retrieved on 2020-08-22.
↑ Martha McCarthy (1987). Steamboats on the rivers and lakes of Manitoba: 1859-96. Operated on Lake Winnipeg. Had been designed for Lake Manitoba but could not proceed up the Little Saskatchewan (Dauphin) River. Used as a freighter on Lake Winnipeg to Grand Rapids. Flat bottom unsuitable for Lake Winnipeg and declared unsafe..

[FireCanoe-1] Ted Barris (2015-09-26). Fire Canoe: Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited. Dundurn Press 2015. ISBN 9781459732100. Retrieved on 2020-08-22.

[SteamboatsRiversLakesManitoba-2] Martha McCarthy (1987). Steamboats on the rivers and lakes of Manitoba: 1859-96. Operated on Lake Winnipeg. Had been designed for Lake Manitoba but could not proceed up the Little Saskatchewan (Dauphin) River. Used as a freighter on Lake Winnipeg to Grand Rapids. Flat bottom unsuitable for Lake Winnipeg and declared unsafe..

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Chief Commissioner (HBC vessel)

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