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Interviewer:
So this boat that you caught back and forth, did it have regular times that it left?

Mr. McGowen:
Well it was a shift boat you see, they had shift work at Ioco and a lot of people worked over, well most of the people, I guess, working over there lived in Port Moody and so after, well, I guess from [the time] the townsite was built that wouldn't be so, but they still ran the shift boat, it used to run at quarter past seven to get them there at eight o'clock and that would wait and pick up the guys coming off shift at eight o'clock, and that would leave at quarter past three and get over at Ioco for the twelve shift and so on. And, the next one would be quarter past eleven to get the midnight shift; the guys that had to get to work at midnight. And the old, 'Delta,' and the, 'Scenic,' they used to run into Vancouver. I forget now, I know they used to get out about four o'clock or something like that. And then they had another one that run after supper, left Vancouver about seven o'clock. Yeah they did! Because nine o'clock they'd get into Port Moody. They left Vancouver at seven thirty. And on Saturday and Sunday night that was a big event, everybody walked down to the end of the dock to meet the, 'Delta,' coming in. "Hurry up, the Delta will be in."

Interviewer:
How much did it cost? Do you remember?

Mr. McGowen:
I used to pay fifteen cents a ride to go to Ioco, but I don't...I forget how much it cost to go to Vancouver. I don't know if it cost anything, 'cause we used to call it the, 'Slip the Mate.' We'd get on where the mate wasn't. If he was on the front we'd go to the back, if he was on the back we'd go to the front (laughs.)