A LENS ON VANCOUVER'S PAST

RCMP Schooner St. Roch [at dock] 
Sunday, October 14, 1934
CVA 447-7905
 

Pictured moored at the Evans, Coleman & Evans Dock in 1934 is the 197-ton RCMP Schooner St. Roch in her schooner rigging and powered by a 150-hp diesel engine. 

In June 1940, the reinforced wood-hulled schooner left Vancouver on a 2-year TOP SECRET wartime voyage resulting in the first west to east transit of the Northwest Passage.

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The van Weelderen Family