Beaver Line Fleet List
Fleet List of the Beaver Line Showing Ownership, Nationality, Name of Ship, Year Placed in Service, and Gross Tonnage. Gross tonnage equals cubic feet of all enclosed space divided by 100. Notations Regarding the Ship (if any), Such as Previous Name or Renaming, are shown after the Gross Tonnage.
BEAVER LINE
Canada Shipping Co., Ltd.
(British)
This line was formed by a group of Montreal merchants in 1867. The company changed hands in 1899 and became the property of Elder, Dempster & Company, who finally sold the Beaver Line to Canadian Pacific Steamship, Ltd. in 1903.
- Gallia (1878) 4,809
- Lake Champlain (1874) 2,207
- Lake Huron (1881) 4,040
- Lake Manitoba (1880) 3,322
- Lake Megantic (1875) 2,219
- Lake Nepigon (1875) 2,209
- Lake Ontario (1887) 4,502
- Lake Simcoe (1884) 4,912
- Lake Superior (1884) 4,562
- Lake Winnipeg (1879) 3,329
Smith, Eugene W., Passenger Ships of the World: Past and Present, Boston: George H. Dean Company, 1963.
Repository Information
The Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives (GG Archives) is cataloged with the Library of Congress under MARC Org Code: WiMfGGA and ISIL: US-wimfgga.
Current location:
N91W16562 Pershing Ave, #1
Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin 53051-2170, USA
Note: Historic addresses listed in earlier MARC records include Marietta, GA and Woodstock, GA. These appear in authority files but are no longer active.
