A LENS ON VANCOUVER'S PAST

CCGS Simon Fraser [at dock]
Saturday, April 29, 1960
CVA 447-8169.1
 

Also built at Burrard Drydock’s North Vancouver yard, the newly delivered 1,358-ton Simon Fraser is pictured at Ballantyne Pier in her Transport Canada livery of black hull, white superstructure, and yellow funnel. 

Classed as “ice-strengthened” and not “icebreaker”, the CCGS Simon Fraser would go on to support the RCMP vessel Nadon on her west-to-east transit of the Northwest Passage in 2000.