The Sinking of the Princess Sophia: Taking the North Down
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Coates, Ken / Morrison, William, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, On October , the Canadian Pacific steamer Princess Sophia left Skagway, Alaska, on its last run of the season to Vancouver, Victoria, ong>andong> Seattle. A ong>stormong> rose ong>andong> at 2 a.m. it ran aground on Vong>andong>erbilt Reef. Rescue vessels were quickly assembled, but the ong>stormong> worsened ong>andong> they were forced to take shelter themselves. By the following morning, the Princess Sophia had sunk to the bottom of the Lynn Canal, taking all of its passengers--a significant cross-section of the population of the Yukon ong>andong> Alaska--with it. This volume examines the impact of this loss on a society that, with the end of the gold rush, was already in decline.