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OFF TO BIG BEND. – Mr. McKay, of the Hudson Bay Company, left yesterday by the Enterprise with 25 men en route to Shuswap lake to get out the timber for constructing the steamer to be placed on the Lakes for the spring trade.  The men are engaged for one month certain with the option of renewing the engagement for another month at $60 and found.  Several miners left at the same time bound to Big Bend.

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Title: HBC Preparing Steamboat
Internal ID: 0052.0012
Medium: Newspaper
Date: January 13th 1866
Collection: 0052
People: McKay
Publisher: Victoria Daily Colonist
Pages: 3
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Newspaper article saying the Hudson Bay Company is intending to construct a steamboat on Shuswap Lake for the spring trade.
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