page_title: Beaver (steamship)
hierarchical_section_title: Beaver (steamship)
caption_attribution_description: Beaver steamship, ca 1870
context_page_description: Beaver was a steamship originally owned and operated by the Hudson’s Bay Company. She was the first steamship to operate in the Pacific Northwest of North America, and made remote parts of the west coast of Canada accessible for maritime fur trading. At one point she was chartered by the Royal Navy for surveying the coastline of British Columbia. She served off the coast from 1836 until 1888, when she was wrecked.
context_section_description: Beaver was a steamship originally owned and operated by the Hudson’s Bay Company.  She was the first steamship to operate in the Pacific Northwest of North America, and made remote parts of the west coast of Canada accessible for maritime fur trading.  At one point she was chartered by the Royal Navy for surveying the coastline of British Columbia. She served off the coast from 1836 until 1888, when she was wrecked.
caption: Beaver about 1870
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