| This vessel ran with the Port Simpson to 1911. In 1912 this vessel was purchased for $500 by the Prince Rupert Rowing & Yacht Club. After being dismantled her hull served as the clubhouse to 1924. The upper deck was turned into a club house and the main deck was used for storage and as a boat house.
Victoria Daily Colonist, 27 Mar 1901. "Steamer Hazelton, the stern wheel steamer being built by R. Cunningham & Co. for the Skeena river trade, was launched a few days ago and is at Spratt’s wharf, where work is being hurried forward on her in order to get her north to being work by April 20. Capt. Bonsar, master of the river steamer Monte Cristo, which last season made a good name for herself on the Skeena, is to command the Hazelton, and is superintending the construction of the vessel, which he expects to be able to take north from here by April 15."
"The steamer has the lightest draught of any of the sternwheelers that have been launched here, for when this vessel was launched this vesseldid not draw more than eleven inches of water, and when her machinery has been placed in her, it is expected that this vesselwill not draw more than sixteen inches, having a draught almost light enough to float on a dewy marsh."
"The steamer is being built after drawings made by Alex. Watson, the well known local designer of river steamers, who designed the White Pass company’s steamers and many other vessels of the fleet operating on the Yukon and elsewhere in the North. This vessel will accommodate 150 passengers of both classes, and will have berth accommodation for 32 first-class passengers. The Monte Cristo is to run in connection with the Hazelton, and Capt. Bonsar is now arranging for a master and crew for that steamer, who are to be dispatched north on the steamer Willapa when this vesselagain leaves for northern British Columbia ports. With the two steamers Messrs. Cunningham & Co. intend, they say, to open up the Skeena river country as far as possible. With the two steamers of the Hudson Bay Co., the Strathcona and Caledonia, there will be a fleet of four sternwheelers on the Skeena this season." |
