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In 1997, Bill Constable collected what was left of the ship - a compass, whistle, two davits, and the rudder and rudder post - and donated them to the Creston Museum.26
The Midge's abandonment in 1894 came about because its owner, T.J. Davis, had returned to his hometown in Wales to get married over the winter of 1893-1894. Upon hearing that his farm along the Kootenay River flats had been destroyed in the spring flood of 1894, Davis decided not to return to the Kootenays.The flood of 1894 had an impact on far more than one small steamship.
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