Milton Parent’s Silent Shores & Sunken Ships documents the spatial, maritime, and industrial history of Upper Arrow Lake and the Columbia River reaches stretching south from Revelstoke to Galena Bay and Shelter Bay. The chronicle focuses on the strategic role of Arrowhead as the CPR railhead where transcontinental rail traffic transferred directly onto sternwheelers servicing the mining towns and lumber camps of the Kootenay and Lardeau districts. Parent details the establishment of massive shoreline lumber operations, including the giant mills at Comaplix and Beaton, while recording the perilous navigation of steamships like the S.S. Revelstoke and S.S. Columbia. The volume concludes by documenting the civic and geographical dislocation triggered by the construction of the Hugh Keenleyside Dam, which permanently flooded historical townsites, farms, and ferry landings beneath the expanded lake reservoir.

Arrowhead (B.C.), Beaton (B.C.), British Columbia Arrow Lakes, Galena Bay (B.C.), History, Navigation British Columbia Arrow Lakes History, Paddle steamers British Columbia Arrow Lakes History, Shelter Bay (B.C.), Shipwrecks British Columbia Arrow Lakes, Steamboats British Columbia History, Upper Arrow Lake (B.C.) History

Centennial Series, Vol. 3. Includes index, shipping registers, and fleet rosters.

Centennial Series, Vol. 3. Includes index, shipping registers, and fleet rosters.