page_title: Steamboats in Canada
section_title: See also
hierarchical_section_title: Steamboats in Canada / See also
caption_attribution_description: English: SS Keewatin
context_page_description: Steamboats in Canada have a long history, both freshwater and oceangoing.
  The Canadian paddlewheeler PS Accommodation was the first successful steamboat built entirely in North America in 1808.
  The PS Frontenac was the first on the Great Lakes. The Rideau Canal, St. Lawrence River, and large rivers of the west provided ample areas to work in.
  Samuel Cunard of Nova Scotia developed the successful Atlantic Steam Liner service in the 1830s with the SS Royal William. While shipbuilding and huge fleets of lakers on the Great Lakes proliferated in the nineteenth century. Their success led to penetration deep into the central continent, with the Anson Northrup in 1859 which became first steamer to cross the Canada–United States border on the Red River, via the US Mississippi River system. Steamboats would also be involved in major political events, as when Louis Riel seized the International at Fort Garry, or Gabriel Dumont was engaged by the vessel Northcote at Batoche.
  On the Pacific Coast the SS Beaver was the first steamer in the Northwest waters; it worked for the Hudson's Bay Company from 1835.
context_section_description: Steamboats of the Ma
  Steamboats of the Skeena
  Steamboats of the Columbia River
  Canadian Pacific Railway
  CP Ships
  Canada Steamship Lines
  SS Keewatin
  SS Wexford
  SS Kamloops
  SS Norisle
  CSS Acadia
  HMCS Haida
  HMCS Sackville (K181)
  Cunard Line
  Foundation Maritime
  HMCS Sudbury (K162)
  Toronto Island ferries
  Owen Sound Transportation Company Limited
  Maid of the Mist
  Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers
  Moyie (sternwheeler)
  Sicamous (sternwheeler)
  HMCS Cape Breton
  SS Master
  HMCS Sudbury (K162)
caption: The Keewatin at rest in Saugatuck, Michigan.
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