Author : Kenneth Coates
Publisher : Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780912006505
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)
Book Synopsis The Sinking of the Princess Sophia by : Kenneth Coates
Download or read book The Sinking of the Princess Sophia written by Kenneth Coates and published by Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 2:00 A.M. on October 24, 1918, the Canadian Pacific steamer Princess Sophia, enroute from Skagway, Alaska to Vancouver and Victoria, ran aground on Vanderbilt Reef, leaving no survivors among 353 miners, businessmen, civil servants, their wives and children, as well as crew members. This social history traces many of their stories--how they had gone to the north, what they did there, why they were leaving that fall.