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Quesnel (sternwheeler)
''Quesnel'' was a sternwheeler first launched in May 1909 at Quesnel, British Columbia to serve the Soda Creek to Fort George route of the upper Fraser River.
==Career==
Originally named ''City of Quesnel'', she was truly a home town product: owned by Telesphore Marion, a local merchant, built by local carpenter, John Strand and piloted by local man, Captain Donald Arthur Foster. However, on her launch day, it was discovered that she rode too low in the water and that her hull needed to be lengthened. Fortunately, shipbuilder Donald McPhee was already in town, having just completed the construction of another sternwheeler, the ''Nechacco''. McPhee was hired to do the work and ''City of Quesnel'' was rebuilt and relaunched under the name ''Quesnel'' on September 2nd.
Among the first of the upper Fraser River vessels built during the era of rail construction, she would also be the last. She served the district for six seasons, until she was retired in the spring of 1915. By then, several factors had devastated the local economy and steamer service wasn't as profitable as it had been previously. The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was completed, and the outbreak of the Great War had caused an abrupt halt to the construction of the promised Pacific Great Eastern Railway which had been under construction from Fort George south since early 1914.
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