A |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Alberta |
1884 |
|
North Western Coal & Navigation Company |
Abandoned at Medicine Hat, NWT, 1885 |
Alberta |
1904 |
|
315 Gross Tonnage. Rufus Mosher & Fred W. Coates, 1908 to Winnipeg Navigation Company |
Caught in flood at Lockport, 1916 |
Alert |
1905 |
|
Northern Fish Company |
? |
Alexandra |
1902 |
|
Levi Bellefeuille, to Pioneer Navigation Company |
Wrecked by ice in the Red River, 1910 |
Algoma |
1909 |
|
Levi Bellefeuille, to Manitoba Sand & Dredging Company |
? |
Alice Mattes |
1921 |
|
The Pas Lumber Company |
Beached at The Pas, circa 1950 |
Alice Sprague |
1886 |
|
Sprague Lumber Company |
? |
Alpha |
1873 |
|
J. W. McLane, circa 1873 to Red River Transportation Company |
Grounded at Spruce Woods, Manitoba, 1885 |
W. H. Alsop |
1881 |
|
W. H. Alsop (of Bonanza Farms), 1882 to Red River Transportation Company |
? |
Amelia Mac |
1910 |
|
Owned by Charles H. NcNaughton of the Arctic Ice Company from 1910 to 1938 then by Brown & Rutherford Company from 1938 onward. Named for Amelia Barbara McNaughton, daughter of its original owner. |
Cut up for scrap at Riverton (?) [5] |
Amish |
|
32 |
32 Gross Tons. |
|
Anson Northup |
1858 |
|
Owner: Anson Northup, formerly North Star, Governor Ramsey |
Reconstructed as Pioneer, 1859 |
Antelope |
1887 |
|
Sprague Lumber Company |
? |
Armenon |
1918 |
|
Armstrong Gimli Fish Company |
Beached at Winnipegosis |
Assiniboia |
1903 |
|
H. H. Ross |
Crushed by ice on Cedar Lake, Manitoba, 1906 |
Assiniboine |
1894 |
|
? |
Dismantled at Winnipeg, 1900, rebuilt as Gertie H |
Aurora |
1885 |
90442 |
Built at Riverton; owners included Lake Winnipeg Transportation Lumber & Trading Company and Hugh Black. |
After 1901, (?) |
B |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Baldur |
1909-1910 |
|
See Phyllis Williams |
|
Baroness |
1883 |
|
North Western Coal & Navigation Company |
Abandoned at Lethbridge, NWT, 1885 |
Battleford |
1896 |
|
John Walter, 1896 to Village of Battleford |
Abandoned at Battleford, Saskatchewan, circa 1907 |
Betty Lew |
|
|
Gross Tonnage 316 |
|
Bonnitoba |
1910 |
|
Gross Tonnage 278. Hyland Navigation & Trading Company |
Crushed by ice near Winnipeg, 1913 |
Bradbury |
1915 |
|
Federal Government |
On display at Selkirk Marine Museum |
C |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Carberry |
|
|
Gross Tonnage 64. Operating on Red River, 1919 |
|
Cheyenne |
1873 |
|
Red River Transportation Company |
Wrecked near Ste. Agathe, 1885 |
Chief Commissioner |
1873 |
|
Built for the Hudson’s Bay Company at Lower Fort Garry 1871-72, launched 18 May 1872; in 1881, when the hull was found to be “much decayed and unsafe” she was converted to a “storehouse” [1] |
Hull converted to barge, 1875 |
Chieftain |
1901 |
|
Gross Tonnage 61. Dominion Fish Company, 1909 to Winnipeg Fish Company, 1910 to Northern Fish Company |
Grounded on Red River sandbar, 1916 |
City of Edmonton |
1909 |
|
John Walter |
Abandoned at Edmonton, Alberta, circa 1918 |
City of Grand Forks |
1895 |
|
W. J. Godfrey, to East Grand Forks Transportation Company |
Sunk at Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1912 |
City of Medicine Hat |
1906 |
|
H. H. Ross |
Wrecked on Saskatoon bridge, 1908 |
City of Prince Albert |
1907 |
|
Prince Albert Lumber Company, 1918 to Mandy Mines |
? |
City of Selkirk |
1893 |
|
Gross Tonnage 293. Ewing & Fryer, to Dominion Fish Company |
Crushed by ice on Red River, 1914 |
City of Winnipeg |
1881 |
|
Owned by Winnipeg & Western Transportation Company; formerly Minnesota |
Wrecked in storm off Long Point on Lake Winnipeg, 1881 |
Colvile |
1875 |
|
Owned by Hudson’s Bay Company; formerly Chief Commissioner; named for HBC Governor Eden Colvile (1819-1893). |
Burned at Grand Rapids, NWT, 1894 |
D |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Daisy |
|
|
Gross Tonnage 27. Operating on Red River, 1919 |
|
Daisy Bell |
1898 |
|
James Wallwark |
Abandoned at Dawson, NWT, 1899 |
Dakota |
1872 |
|
Red River Transportation Company |
Burned near international border, 1881 |
Dontianen |
Circa 1930 |
|
Tom Sukanen, 1942 to Victor Markkula, 1972 to Lawrence Mullin and the Moose Jaw Prairie Pioneer Village and Museum |
Reconstructed at the Moose Jaw Prairie Pioneer Village and Museum |
E |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Emma E. |
1908 |
|
Finger Lumber Company |
Beached at The Pas |
Evelyn B. |
1922 |
|
H. Burrell |
Refurbished as Rambler, circa 1925 |
F |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Fisherman |
1892 |
|
Gross Tonnage 44. North West Navigation Company |
Laid up at Selkirk, 1914 |
Frederick |
1904 |
|
North West Navigation Company |
Lost on Lake of the Woods, 1912 |
Friday (tugboat) |
1911 |
|
Gross Tonnage 60. Built by the Department of Public Works; Operating on Red River, 1919 |
|
G |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Garry |
|
|
Gross Tonnage 120. Operating on Red River, 1919 |
|
George V |
1911 |
|
City of Prince Albert, 1915 to F. E. Simmonds syndicate |
Wrecked in ice at The Pas, 1918 |
Gertie H |
1900 |
|
J. S. Hall, to Pioneer Navigation Company. The boat was the rebuilt Assiniboine, apparently named for Gertie Hall, daughter of its owner. |
Destroyed by fire, 1904 |
Glendevon |
1882 |
|
Charles Gauthier |
Burned at mouth of Little Saskatchewan River, 1891 |
Goldfield |
Circa 1914 |
|
Gross Tonnage 94. Reid & Tait Fish Company, circa 1910 to Goldfield Mines, 1919 to Riverton Fish Company, 1921 to Gimli Fish Company, 1936 to Armstrong Gimli Fish Company, 1969 to Sigurdson Fish Company; formerly Minerva, Frank Burton |
Cut up for scrap at Riverton (?) [5] |
J. L. Grandin |
1878 |
|
J. L. Grandin (of Bonanza Farms) |
Sunk during flood at Halstad, Minnesota, 1897 |
Grand Rapids |
1913 |
|
Gross Tonnage 438. North West Navigation Company; formerly Mikado |
Broken up at Selkirk, 1930s |
W. J. Guest |
1917 |
|
Gross Tonnage 97. Northern Fish Company |
? |
H |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Sir Hector (tugboat) |
|
|
Gross Tonnage 70. Department of Public Works; named for Sir Hector Louis Langevin (1826-1906). |
|
Highlander |
1900 |
|
Gross Tonnage 59. Imperial Fish Company, to Northern Fish Company, to Hudson’s Bay Company |
Dismantled at Norway House, 1916 |
I |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Ida |
1890s |
|
Peter McArthur, then to McArthur’s Standard Lumber Company |
? |
Idell |
1892 |
|
Gross Tonnage 54. Owned by North West Navigation Company; operating on Red River |
Broken up at Selkirk, 1941 |
International |
1862 |
|
J. C. & H. C. Burbank, transferred circa 1872 to Red River Transportation Company (Kittson Line); formerly Freighter |
? |
Iona |
1899 |
|
Standard Lumber Company |
? |
Isabelle |
1893 |
|
Peter McArthur, then to McArthur’s Standard Lumber Company; formerly Lady Blanche |
Abandoned near Winnipegosis, 1904 |
J |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Josie |
1890 |
|
Richard Deacon |
Abandoned on North Saskatchewan River, 1914 |
K |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Keenora |
1898 |
|
Gross Tonnage 535. Rainy River Navigation Company, 1918 to three Winnipeg lawyers, 1923 to Northern Fish Company, 1931 to Selkirk Navigation Company, 1964 to Marine Transport Navigation Company, 1972 to Maritime Museum of Manitoba |
Beached at the Maritime Museum of Manitoba, 1972 |
Keewatin |
1876 |
|
F. T. Rollin |
Wrecked in storm on Lake Winnipeg, 1884 |
L |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Lady Blanche |
1879 |
|
Reginald Pratt |
Reconstructed as Isabelle, 1893 |
Lady Ellen |
1877 |
|
E. McMicken, N. Blacklin & J. Colcleugh, 1880 to Brown & Rutherford, 1885 to D. Clark, 1887 to D. Fraser, 1887 to North West Navigation Company |
Laid up at Selkirk, 1915 |
Lady of the Lake |
1897 |
|
Stephen Sigurdson, 1898 to William Robinson, 1899 to Dominion Fish Company, 1901 to Northern Fish Company |
Condemned at Selkirk, 1934 |
Lady of the Lake |
1906 |
|
Gross Tonnage 201. William Pearson Company; formerly Welcome |
Rebuilt as Qu’Appelle, 1907 |
Laura |
1884 |
88473 |
Built at Riverton; owned by Lake Winnipeg Transportation Lumber & Trading Company. |
Broken up (?) |
Lily |
1877 |
|
Built for the Hudson’s Bay Company and launched at Grand Rapids in 1877, transferred in 1883 to the Winnipeg & Western Transportation Company |
Sunk at Drowning Ford, NWT [about 40 miles below Medicine Hat], 1883 |
Lisgar |
|
|
Gross Tonnage 26 |
|
B. J. Little |
1898 |
|
B. J. Little |
? |
Lottie S. |
1900 |
|
North West Fish Company |
? |
Luana |
|
|
Gross Tonnage 279 |
|
M |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Maggie |
1873 |
|
James Bell, to F. T. Rollin |
Converted to barge at Winnipeg, 1878 |
Majestic |
|
|
Gross Tonnage 64. Operating on Red River, 1919 |
|
Manitoba |
1875 |
|
Merchants International Steamboat Line, 1875 to Red River Transportation Company, circa 1881 to Winnipeg & Western Transportation Company |
Crushed by ice at Shell River, NWT, 1885 |
Manitou |
1900 |
|
Booth Fish Company |
Beached on Lake Winnipegosis |
Marion |
1907 |
|
Richard Deacon |
Abandoned on North Saskatchewan River, 1914 |
Marquette |
1879 |
|
North West Navigation Company |
Wrecked on Red River, 1888 |
Marquis |
1882 |
|
Winnipeg & Western Transportation Company |
Beached at Prince Albert, NWT 1890, burned circa 1909 |
Marvyl |
1905 |
121772 |
Manitoba Gypsum Company Limited (1905-1919) and Northern Fish Company Limited (1921-1931) |
? |
Mary Ann Roe |
Before 1881 |
|
Owned by Roe and D. B. McDonald of Portage la Prairie [3] |
? |
May Queen |
1884 |
|
E. S. Andrews |
Scrapped at Saskatoon, NWT, 1885 |
McKillop-Benjafield |
1903 |
|
McKillop & Benjafield |
Abandoned on Last Mountain Lake |
Midnight Sun |
1905 |
|
Northern Transportation Company |
? |
Mikado |
1905 |
|
Gross Tonnage 242. Built by John Morrison and Roderick Smith, later owned by William Purvis, to Northern Fish Company |
Rebuilt as Grand Rapids, 1913 |
Miles |
|
|
Hugh Black |
|
Minassin |
|
|
H. H. Ross |
|
Minnesota |
1875 |
|
Merchants International Steamboat Line, 1875 to Red River Transportation Company |
Refurbished as City of Winnipeg, 1881 |
Minnow |
1884 |
|
North Western Coal & Navigation Company, 1887 to Lamoureux Brothers, 1898 to Percy C. Cunliffe |
Abandoned on North Saskatchewan River, circa 1900 |
Mockingbird |
1899 |
|
North West Fish Company |
Swamped on Lake Winnipegosis, 1901 |
Mount Cashel |
1910 |
|
Hyland Navigation Company |
Burned near Winnipeg, 1914 |
Myles |
1889 |
|
North West Navigation Company |
Lost on Lake Winnipeg, circa 1900 |
N |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
W. S. Newton |
|
|
Gross Tonnage 311. Keystone Fisheries Limited, named for businessman Walter S. Newton |
Sank at Selkirk (1947) |
Nipawin |
1917 |
|
Ross Navigation Company |
Beached at The Pas, 1930s |
Northcote |
1874 |
|
Hudson’s Bay Company, 1883 to Winnipeg & Western Transportation Company |
Beached at Cumberland House, NWT, 1886, burned circa 1903 |
Northern Light |
1906 |
|
Northern Transportation Company |
? |
Northland Echo |
1910 |
|
Northern Transportation Company |
? |
Northland Sun |
1907 |
|
Charles Barber, to Northern Transportation Company |
? |
Northland Trader |
1906 |
|
Northern Transportation Company |
? |
North West |
1881 |
|
North West Navigation Company, 1884 to Winnipeg & Western Transportation Company |
Wrecked in flood at Edmonton, NWT, 1899 |
Notin |
1914 |
|
Ross Navigation Company |
Beached at The Pas, 1920s |
O |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Odinak |
1916 |
|
Armstrong Gimli Fish Company |
Beached at Winnipegosis |
Ogema |
1885 |
|
Reid & Tait Fish Company, to North West Navigation Company |
? |
O Hell |
1910 |
|
Ross Navigation Company |
Beached at The Pas, 1920s |
Osprey |
1890s |
|
Booth Fish Company |
? |
P |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Le Pas |
1910 |
|
H. H. Ross, then to Ross Navigation Company |
Beached at The Pas, 1920s |
Pathfinder |
1903 |
|
Richard Deacon |
Abandoned on North Saskatchewan River, 1914 |
Petrel |
1898 |
|
C. W. Maloan |
Dismantled, 1910 |
Phyllis Williams |
1909-1910 |
|
Built for the William Robinson Company |
Condemned, 1951 |
Pioneer |
1859 |
|
Owned by Anson Northup; formerly called Anson Northup |
Crushed by ice at Cook’s Creek off Red River, 1862 |
Pluck |
Circa 1880 |
|
Bonanza Farms, 1882 to Red River Transportation Company; formerly White Swan |
Dismantled at Grand Forks, Dakota Territory, 1886 |
Premier |
1896 |
|
Reid & Tait Fish Company, to Dominion Fish Company |
Burned at Warren’s Landing on Lake Winnipeg, 1908 |
Prince Rupert |
1872 |
|
Peter McArthur, then part of the North West Navigation Company |
Dismantled at Winnipeg, 1881 |
Princess |
1880-1881 |
|
Launched 2 August 1881; owned by William Robinson, then part of North West Transportation Company |
Sunk in storm off Swampy Island on Lake Winnipeg, 1906 |
Q |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Qu’Appelle |
1907 |
|
William Pearson Company; formerly called Lady of the Lake |
Torched at Cowan’s Beach on Last Mountain Lake, 1918 |
R |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Rambler |
Circa 1925 |
|
C. Patterson; formerly called Evelyn B. |
Beached in storm at Coffey’s Point on Lake Winnipegosis, 1930 |
Red River |
1883 |
|
North West Navigation Company |
Sunk in storm on Lake Winnipeg, 1899 |
Regina |
1885 |
88499 |
Built at Winnipeg. Tonnage: gross (6) net (4). Wooden screw steamer |
Broken up, registry closed 1908 |
Ripple |
1885 |
90441 |
Built at Selkirk. |
?; Registry closed 1890 |
Ripple |
1891 |
100131 |
Built at Winnipeg |
Broken up; Registry closed 1899 |
Rocket |
1899 |
|
Gross Tonnage 56. J. W. Simpson, 1906 to North West Navigation Company |
Broken up at Selkirk, 1933 |
Rosamond Billett |
1910 |
|
Operated by Lake Winnipeg Shipping Company |
Broken up 1917, rebuilt, and scrapped 1922 |
Roughsedge - Ramsay |
1905 |
|
Roughsedge & Ramsay |
Shut down on North Saskatchewan River, 1909 |
Ruby |
1910 |
|
Federal Department of Public Works |
? |
S |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Sam Brisbin |
1908 |
|
H. H. Ross, then to Ross Navigation Company |
Sunk at The Pas, 1920s |
Saskatchewan |
1883 |
|
Peter McArthur |
Burned at The Narrows, Lake Manitoba, 1893 |
Saskatchewan |
1903 |
|
Hudson’s Bay Company |
Dismantled at The Pas, 1913 |
Scona |
1907 |
|
John Walter; formerly called Strathcona |
Abandoned at Edmonton, Alberta, circa 1918 |
Selkirk |
1871 |
|
Hill, Griggs & Company, circa 1872 to Red River Transportation Company |
Wrecked at Grand Forks, Dakota Territory, 1884 |
Slave River |
1912 |
|
Hudson’s Bay Company |
? |
C. R. Smith |
1912 |
|
Finger Lumber Company |
Beached at The Pas |
J. M. Smith |
1906 |
|
Gross Tonnage 179. William Hall |
Wrecked by ice on the Red River, 1920 |
Sophia |
1884 |
88474 |
Built at Riverton; owned by Lake Winnipeg Transportation Lumber & Trading Company. |
? |
Sparkle |
1922 |
|
Booth Fish Company |
? |
J. R. Spear |
|
|
Gross Tonnage 71. Named for businessman J. R. Spear; operated on Red River, 1919 |
|
Spray |
|
|
Gross Tonnage 18 |
|
Strathcona |
1904 |
|
John Walter |
Rebuilt as Scona, 1907 |
Sultana |
1889 |
92695 |
North West Navigation Company |
Abandoned at Fort Alexander Mills, 1911 |
Suzanne E |
1946 |
|
Built by Edward Neison (1887-1982); later bought by Noah Epstein (1898-1958), operator of Selkirk Fisheries, and named in honour of his daughter Suzanne Epstein Golden |
Caught in storm north of Grindstone Point and sunk, 24 September 1965 |
Swallow |
1868 |
|
Minnesota shippers; 1875 to James Flannigan |
Caught in Red River ice, 1879 |
T |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Tempest |
1900 |
|
Gross Tonnage 75. Built by William Purvis Sr. for the Northern Fish Company, it towed sailboats to fishing grounds on Lake Winnipeg. |
Beached in 1925, it was broken up at Selkirk in 1927 |
Tobin |
1921 |
|
Ross Navigation Company |
Beached at The Pas, 1930s |
U |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
V |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Vaughan |
|
|
Operating on Red River in 1919, gross tonnage 134 (LAC records) |
|
Victor |
|
|
Gross Tonnage 26. Operating on Red River, 1919 |
|
Victoria |
1878 |
|
? |
? |
W |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Welcome |
1905 |
|
William Pearson Company |
Rebuilt as Lady of the Lake, 1906 |
William Robinson |
Circa 1880 |
|
William Robinson |
Grounded on Lake Winnipeg, 1882 |
Winnipeg |
|
|
Dredge. Gross Tonnage 245. Operated by Department of Public Works |
|
Winnitoba |
1909 |
|
Gross Tonnage 883. Hyland Navigation & Trading Company |
Burned, 1912 |
D. N. Winton |
1920 |
|
The Pas Lumber Company |
Beached at The Pas, 1934, wrecked by ice, circa 1950 |
Wolverine |
1903 |
|
Gross Tonnage 278. Imperial Fish Company, 1904 to Northern Fish Company |
Dismantled, 1936 |
X |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Y |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |
Z |
Built |
Official Number |
Notes |
Fate |