The Archive · 1901

The Wreck of the Islander

Sixty-five Lives Lost

Canadian papers ty honed by the C.P.R. steamer Empress of Japan contain full acevunts of the avreck ofthe CE, P.

er Islander, for yours engaged in the service. Io appears that the vessel was on the return trip from Skag-way to Victoria and that she was pa-sing Douglas Idan, entering Stephen's Pas:

we from Lynn Canal, when she ran into one of the num-rous icebergs that emerge from the adjacent glaciers and fiords. churia, It certainly was a time when f rose, aid in seasons of plentifulness plants, The accident happene: 5 on the

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