THE No. 29
BEACON Shedding light on the communities from Lions Bay to West Bay
July/August 2018
As B.C. grows, so do the ferries
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he Hudson’s Bay Company provided regular ferry service between Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland in the mid 1800s. By 1901, Canadian Pacific Railway took over the system and included passenger transportation between downtown Vancouver and downtown Victoria into the 1950s. The Horseshoe Bay ferry service began in 1951 with the Black Ball Line offering travel to Departure Bay in Nanaimo, as well as up the Sunshine Coast and Jervis Inlet, just south of Powell River. In 1961 the provincial government purchased the ferry assets and B.C. Ferries began its thus far 67 years of uninterrupted service. In 2017, over three million ferry passengers travelled through Horseshoe Bay.
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Community Personality
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From the Inkwell
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Little Bakery, Big Heart
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First Impressions
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Mountains to Sea
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Ferry in the Bay.
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Many thanks to Andrea Crowdis for submitting this spectacular depiction of Horseshoe Bay. The artist is a student in Mrs. Crowdis’ Grade 5/6 class at Gleneagles Ch’axáý Elementary.
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