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INTERESTING CITIZENS INTERESTING Princess Sophia Sinking Sophia Princess | Where Vancouver Remembers Vancouver Where Mountain View Cemetery View Mountain Captain James David Robinson John & Rosabel John Maskell The Cemetery The award winning construc- Visit the cemetery tion project recently complet- Mountain View Cemetery, Chisholm Alexander David Robinson the wireless op- Owned and operated by the ed at Mountain View Cemetery 5455 Fraser Street, At least two letters written by erator stuck to his post to the City of Vancouver since 1887, has resulted in more than Vancouver, BC V5W 2Z3 Captain James Alexander, was John and Rosabel were mar- passengers during the time the last. At 4:50 pm, he sent out an Mountain View is made up of 2,000 new spaces available for one of the owners of the Engi- ried on January 31, 1912. After ship was marooned on the reef SOS message “Ship Foundering 106 acres of land with approxi- cremated remains and mark 604.325.2646 neer Mine located on the east their marriage the Chisholms survived the ship’s destruction. on reef. Come at once.” which mately 92,000 grave sites and the beginning of a renewed shore of the Taku Arm of Tagish went to Dawson City in the was received by the light house 145,000 interred remains. interest and investment in this Office Hours Lake 32 km west of Atlin BC. Yukon. One child was born to “I am writing this my dear girl tender S.S. Cedar. important civic space. 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. them there, who lived but a while the boat is in grave dan- There is a growing realization Monday - Friday Before leaving for the 'outside' very short time. John Stanley ger,” wrote John Maskell in a At 5:20 pm. Robinson sent out in North America that cemeter- (excluding holidays) and the voyage on the Sophia, Chisholm was a noted pioneer letter to his fiancee Dorthy “For God’s sake hurry, the wa- ies, particularly older ones like Alexander asked the propri- Dawson wood contractor in Burgess. “ We struck a rock last mountainviewcemetery.ca ter is coming into my room.” Mountain View, offer an ideal etors of the Anderson Hotel in partnership with his brother, night which threw many from (The wireless room was on the setting in which to engage with Carcross, Yukon Territory, the Jim Chisholm. their berths, some were crying, top deck of the ship, next to both history and nature. Gideons, to take care of his some too weak to move, The the bridge.) parrot Polly (a male). life boats were swung out in all In 1998 an extensive public readiness, but it would have The wireless operator on one John Zaccarelli process was initiated by the been madness to launch.” of the rescue ships made con- City of Vancouver to develop a Outlined in the Master Plan ap- John R. Young tact suggesting he save his bat- John Zaccarelli, was born Master Plan for the renewal of proved by City Council in 2004, “The boat might go to pieces, teries by only transmitting if about 1880 in BC. His parents Vancouver’s only cemetery. The the new Operations Yard, Cus- for the force of the waves are John R. Young was the chief absolutely necessary. “Alright, both came from Pieve di Ca- first major projects of the plan tomer Service Building, and terrible, making awful noises engineer of the British Yukon I will,” Robinson answered. dore, Veneto, Italy. He opened have finally been completed, the Celebration Hall and Court- on the side of the boat….” Navigation Company WP&YR “You talk to me so I know you a store in Dawson City around and for the first time in over yard, a special place for fami- steamer Dawson. He was with are coming.” 1901 according to the Yukon 22 years, there are now new lies to hold memorial services Maskell’s letter included a his wife who were both from Territory and Alaska Directory spaces available for interment on site, have been built. hastily scrawled last will and Milwaukee Wis. That was the last message from and Gazetteer. He sold every- testament. at Mountain View. the Princess Sophia. thing from books to bananas. 1. Cemetery Office 2. Celebration Hall 3. Works Yard Horne 2 Abray Section 41st Avenue 41st 3. 33rd Avenue 33rd 1. 2. Horne Addition Jones Section Old Section N 37th Avenue 37th interior points, eager to get is evident that he believed the Cedar rushed to the vicinity, 66 victims from the disaster HAYNES Jack ROSS Duncan The Canadian Pacific’s Princess “outside” for the winter. Four Sophia was planted so firmly on but could see nothing of the are buried at Mountain View HOWEY George SANGSTER George Sophia sank at Vanderbilt Reef hours out she ran into a blind- the rocks as to be secured from Sophia. When morning broke JOHNSON E. J. SIMUNOVICH Tomo ing snowstorm, in which, it is the severity of the storm which her foremast was visible above AFTAIKEN Fred JURKOVITCH Peter B. SUN Sit Alaska on October 25, 1918. There supposed, she got out of her continued to rage. the water. There was no sign of ALEXANDER Capt. James KENYON Herbert J. UNKNOWN Female course slightly and piled up on life, no wreckage and the bod- ALEXANDER Louisa A. KIRK James William UNKNOWN Male are 66 people buried at Mountain the reef, where she rested for Efforts at Rescue Fall ies had scattered if they had ANTHONY William A. LAWLESS Henry Francis UNKNOWN No. 8 BARNES Allen G. MABINS Anthony VERY Eleanor View as a result of this tragedy. more that forty hours in what not gone down with the ship. was thought to be a position of Friday morning the United Edmonton Morning Bulletin BARTON William MACEY Stewart Wil- VERY Maria no danger. Lighthouse tenders States lighthouse tender Cedar October 1918 BENNETT Howard liam WHEELDON Edward G. C.P.R. Steamer is Lost – All from the comparative safety of and gas boats responded to had got within 400 yards of the BEYER Fred Carl MACLELLAN John Walter WHITCROSS Victor aboard Perish Vanderbilt reef, in Lynn Canad, the wireless call for assistance Sophia, but her anchors would BOOTH George W. MACLENNAN William WING Sit midway between Skagway and and the Princess Alice was dis- not hold on the rocky sea bot- The Princess Sophia was or- BROWN Frank MASKELL John YOUNG John R. Princess Sophia Dashed across Juneau, early Friday evening patched from Vancouver to tom and the seas forced her dered in May of 1911 and built BROWNING Charlotte T. MATHESON Roy Arlo YOUNG Robert by Bow, McLachlan & Company Reef by Terrific Storm - Crew of and carried 343 persons, pas- take over the passengers. Even back. The waves were such BURKE Frank MCARTHUR William T. ZACCARELLI John of Paisley Scotland. Her length 75 and 268 Passengers Perish. sengers and crew, men, women CARR Lena Patricia MCLEOD John though the seas were running that life boats could not have was 245 ft. width 44 ft. and and children, to their death in too high to permit of the trans- lived. When night shut down was 2300 gt. with single screw CARTWRIGHT Alfred MCLEOD Mrs. Norman Tempest So Tremendous that the raging northern waters. ference of the passengers on the Sophia was still on the triple expansion steam engine, CHINNERY C. S. MCLEOD Norman Steamers which had gone to There were no survivors from board Friday, no alarm was felt. reef. The wind increased and and was launched Nov. 8, 1911. CHISHOLM J. S. MCTAVISH Roy rescue of Stranded Ship were the ship. Captain F.L. Lockem, of Victo- the air was filled with snow. At She did 14 knots on her sea tri- CHISHOLM Mrs J. S. MURPHY Arthur Powerless to Rescue Single ria, a veteran seaman of the 8 o’clock the Cedar picked up als in early 1912, and sailed CLARK John M. NEWBERG Charles from Scotland on February 19, Person Stranded During Blizzard northern coast, on the night of the last wireless from the So- FINDLAY Robert NICHOLS James Jean 1912, arriving in Victoria three FLEMING Ivan Elbridge NILES George the disaster had wirelessed his phia. The Sophia was sinking. months later. Victoria, B.C., Oct. 27 – Pound- The Sophia left Skagway office here that the ship was She had been driven across the GIN Kit OLSEN Lionel Ardina ed by mountainous waves and Wednesday evening last for hard and fast on the reef with reef into deep water, in which The bell of the Princess Sophia GRENNEY Allen J. PELLISON Arnox driven before a wind of terrible Vancouver with a passenger her bottom badly damaged, but her shattered bottom offered has been presented to the Van- HAGGERTY William PLUMB Herbert severity, the Canadian Pacific list made up largely of Daw- she was not taking water and no support, and she filled couver Maritime Museum. HALL Mamie QUEEN Charles Lockar steamship Princess Sophia slid son people and Alaskans from the passengers were normal. It quickly and went down. The HATCHER Walter C. ROBINSON David Mearns .