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[ca.1936] (Creation)
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1 photograph : b&w ; 20.2 x 25.2 cm
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Photograph depicts the multi-level steamship "Tutshi" anchored near a rocky shoreline. Stamped annotation on verso: “Yukon Archives, Whitehorse. Print No. No. 82/378 #3; Please credit: Poirer Collection, Yukon Archives”
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Believed to be at the Yukon Archives, Whitehorse.
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Personal or academic use of photographic materials is welcomed under the standard fair use and educational use clauses of Canadian Copyright Law. Commercial use is, however, forbidden without the express permission of the copyright holder. For information on obtaining written permission from the copyright holder, please contact the Northern B.C. Archives and Special Collections.
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Item is part of the James Joseph Claxton Photographic Collection.
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The steamer Tutshi was first launched in Carcross, YT on June 12, 1917 by the British Yukon Navigation Company (BYN) to make the run between Carcross and Graham Inlet on Tagish Lake. Unlike other BYN sternwheelers, the S.S. Tutshi was specifically built for lake travel. The boat had a larger deck area for passengers and a keel instead of a flat hull. The vessel transported some freight and mail, but it also offered the amenities of a cruise ship. There was an elegant dining room, with an electric fireplace - even a steam-powered ice-cream churn. She had a crew of 29 and could carry approximately 110 passengers. Between 1920 and 1926, she underwent three expansions to accommodate the bustling tourist trade; including a 1925 power conversion which enabled it to burn oil as well as wood. This conversion eliminated the noise and disruption of stopping to re-supply at wood camps during the night. The S.S. Tutshi made her last trip in 1956 when she was used to pull a barge of railway ties from Taku Arm to Carcross. In July of that year she was pulled out of the water and remained abandoned on the shores of the Natasahini River until 1971 when the Yukon Government purchased it and became involved in her restoration. She was beached on the shore of Lake Bennett at Carcross in 1972, repainted in 1977 and the real restoration work was begun in 1984. By early 1990 she was almost restored to her former beauty when sadly, the S.S. Tutshi was destroyed in an early morning fire on July 25, 1990.