Monthly Archives: January 2023

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  SS Moyie News

  Posted on January 9, 2023 by webmaster in Bob's News

  This year marks the SS Moyie’s 125 anniversary. This wonderful sternwheeler was launched on October 22, 1898, at Nelson for service on Kootenay Lake.  I’ve been helping out with the Moyie since 1988 as Project Historian, and it is wonderful to see this National Historic Site of Canada each time I visit Kaslo where she has been preserved […]

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  The first of a three-volume series of book on the World’s last working steam railways.

  Posted on January 9, 2023 by webmaster in Bob's News

  Dear Friends, Times have been busy in the book world.  In September 2022, my latest book came out, published by Harbour Publishing here in British Columbia. It is the first of a three-volume series of book on the World’s last working steam railways. It will be released in the US and other countries in 2023. […]

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  50th Anniversary of the publication of my first book

  Posted on January 9, 2023 by webmaster in Bob's News

  This year, 2023, marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of my first book, Vancouver Island Railroads. The first edition was published by the late Donald Duke of Golden West Books in California. In those days, BC’s publishing industry was far less developed than it is today, and there wasn’t a local publisher who could […]

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