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pages 86-87

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026bm http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,688
Title pages 86-87
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-05
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Description formed this remarkable feat, only to lose the historic little craft later in one of the treacherous canyons of the Kootenay. His also was the distinction, after maintaining an intermittent service between the Columbia and Kootenay for a number of years, of being the captain and owner of the last boat to make that amazing passage. We reached Canal Flats at the end of a forty-mile auto-ride from Invermere. Traces of the old dredged channel were still visible running up from the head of...

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