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Mr. Hutchinson:
You could catch the boats. The old 'Delta', the old steamboat called the 'Delta', you'd catch it, or the 'Scenic', it was a little, I think it was a little..I don't know if it was gasoline or diesel.

Interviewer:
Did it make regular scheduled trips?

Mr. Hutchinson:
Oh yeah, eight o'clock in the morning and, the first boat was eight o'clock in the morning and the next one was round about two. Then there was another one around about six or seven at night and that was it. And then they used to, they used to run on Saturday nights to Vancouver, they had excursion trips. They used to come up to Old Orchard, they'd pick up a gang in Vancouver and bring them to Old Orchard. They had a dance hall there and they'd dance in the dance hall, take like a moonlit excursion.

Interviewer:
That'd be a nice outing.

Mr. Hutchinson:
Oh yeah.

Interviewer:
They used to go 'round to Belcarra too, didn't they?

Mr. Hutchinson:
On the boats?

Interviewer:
Yes.

Mr. Hutchinson:
Oh yeah. Well let's see, when you got on the Delta there now, it'd go from Old Orchard to Port Moody and from Port Moody to Sunnyside, and from Sunnyside it'd cut across back over here if - if somebody had a signal out, you know, along the dock - and then we'd stop just before we got to Belcarra there was a..a..

Interviewer:
A spot?

Mr. Hutchinson:
I can't think of the name of it off-hand right now. Then Belcarra, then across to Dollarton, and then from Dollarton into Vancouver.

Interviewer:
Oh. How long a trip would that be? Would it take you an hour or..?

Mr. Hutchinson:
Oh yes.

Interviewer:
All of that?

Mr. Hutchinson:
Took about an hour, and hour and a half. Yes, all of that.