The sinking of the Princess Sophia : taking the north down with her

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  • Author: Coates, Ken
    Contributor:

    Morrison, Bill

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    In 1918, the steamer Princess Sophia left Alaska for Vancouver, but during a storm she ran aground on Vanderbilt Reef - there were no survivors. Tracing the stories of many of the 353 aboard the Sophia - how they had gone to the north, what they did there, why they were leaving that fall, Coates sheds light on a little-known aspect of our history.

    Original Publisher: Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, 1990
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    0195407849

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Morrison, Bill

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In 1918, the steamer Princess Sophia left Alaska for Vancouver, but during a storm she ran aground on Vanderbilt Reef - there were no survivors. Tracing the stories of many of the 353 aboard the Sophia - how they had gone to the north, what they did there, why they were leaving that fall, Coates sheds light on a little-known aspect of our history.

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Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, 1990

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