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Ms. Evans:
And we also had a boat going into Vancouver and I think the earliest one left at eight o'clock in the morning. We had a long wharf in Port Moody, I think it was a half or three quarter of a mile long wharf and...it was the old.. 'Delta', that was our first boat, and we used to leave here at eight in the morning and if I remember properly we hit Vancouver between eleven and twelve in the morning. (Laughs.) It was really quite the tour. We used to go all over the harbour it seems to me because we used to go over to Ioco of course, but along the seashore it used to be called Sunnyside and.. now there's all these beautiful homes there but at that time it was just a few little shacks built here and there as it were, you know, but they had a little wharf and we always stopped there, stopped at Ioco, went over to Dollarton, went down to Barnet - Barnet was quite, quite the big mill at that time and, it was one of the larger mills, one of the better equip mills at that time - and eventually we'd get into Vancouver. But the 'Delta' was anything but safe. And, when we were going through the narrows the captain would come along and he would divide us equally so that..(laughs)

Interviewer:
So that you were evenly balanced?

Ms. Evans:
Evenly balanced, yes. And, there'd be a lot of screaming and yelling if the mothers and the children were separated because mother didn't want to leave her kid just in case the boat tipped over. But nothing like that ever happened (laughs) and it used to cause quite a bit of - especially if the tides were just changing - it used to be really quite the trip. Then we got, if I remember properly, it was called the 'Skeena', and to us it looked like an ocean liner.

Interviewer:
Much larger.

Ms. Evans:
Oh, it was much larger. And we could sit where we wanted to and we weren't separated, and it was a much better ship. And, on Sunday-

Interviewer:
Did it have the same schedule?

Ms. Evans:
Yes, but it seems to me, I forget whether the 'Delta' had its nine o'clock trip from Vancouver or not on Sunday nights, but I remember the 'Skeena' used to come in at nine o'clock Sunday nights. And everyone in town used to go down to meet it. No matter when you went down to the end of the wharf you know you'd meet all your friends because just everyone went down to meet this boat coming in and a lot of people used - I think it left around five or six o'clock in the evening and going to Vancouver and come back again it'd be back around nine, something to that effect anyhow. And on a Sunday evening it was really quite a pleasure. But the government at that time kept the boat up, kept the wharf up I might say, but eventually they stopped that and, people by the name of Bairds who bought the old Roe house, they of course had the boats and used to bring the booms up, and they had to keep the wharf up themselves.