Editing Canadian Pacific Railway (section)

====British Columbia Coast Steamships====
The [[Canadian Pacific Railway Coast Service]] ([[British Columbia Coast Steamships]] or BCCS) was established when the CPR acquired in 1901 [[Canadian Pacific Navigation Company]] (no relation) and its large fleet of ships that served 72 ports along the coast of British Columbia including on Vancouver Island. Service included the Vancouver-Victoria-Seattle ''Triangle Route'', Gulf Islands, Powell River, as well as Vancouver-Alaska service. BCCS operated a fleet of 14 passenger ships made up of a number of ''Princess'' ships, pocket versions of the famous oceangoing ''Empress'' ships along with a freighter, three tugs and five railway car barges. Popular with tourists, the Princess ships were famous in their own right especially ''Princess Marguerite'' (II) which operated from 1949 until 1985 and was the last coastal liner in operation. The most notorious of the princess ships, however, is ''[[Princess Sophia (steamer)|Princess Sophia]]'', which sank with no survivors  after striking the [[Vanderbilt Reef]] in Alaska's [[Lynn Canal]], constituting the largest maritime disaster in the history of the Pacific Northwest. These services continued for many years until changing conditions in the late 1950s brought about their decline and eventual demise at the end of season in 1974. ''Princess Marguerite'' was acquired by the province's British Columbia Steamship (1975) Ltd.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca/fedora/repository/pgc:1975-11-06-26 |page=26 |title=Prince George Citizen |date=6 Nov 1975|website=www.pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca}}</ref> and continued to operate for a number of years. In 1977 although BCCSS was the legal name, it was rebranded as Coastal Marine Operations (CMO). By 1998 the company was bought by the Washington Marine Group which after purchase was renamed Seaspan Coastal Intermodal Company and then subsequently rebranded in 2011 as Seaspan Ferries Corporation. Passenger service ended in 1981.<ref>[http://www.seaspan.com/seaspan-ferries-history "Seaspan Ferries History"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140428151211/http://www.seaspan.com/seaspan-ferries-history/ |date=28 April 2014 }}, Seaspan Ferries website. Retrieved 27 April 2014.</ref>