Not sure if this warrants a thread, but before the importance of the railway, and then the vehicle, steamboats were integral in transforming the early history of our province. With the Alexander Docks having been closed for a while now, the era of steamboats and riverboats on Manitoba's waterways seems to officially be over. Sorry if I've made to many threads, I'd been following the forum for three years before I made an account, so I have lots of ideas for threads!
The first steamboat on the Red, the Anson Northup
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/ansonnorthup.shtml
Perhaps Manitoba's most notable shipping disaster, the SS Princess which sank in a violent storm on Lake Winnipeg in 1906, 6 perished.
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/features/t...e/db0151.shtml
The SS Keenora, my grandma would take weekend excursions up to Lake Winnipeg on her, with fond memories of standing at the bow with her ice cream. Now the "flagship" of the Marine Museum in Selkirk.
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history...verboats.shtml
The Winnitoba, perhaps the largest steamboat to ever sail Manitoba's waterways, just short of 200 feet long.
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/features/t...e/db0153.shtml
The Paddlewheel Queen and River Rouge, the most recent riverboats.
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history...verboats.shtml
The Lord Selkirk II, largest ship by tonnage, and probably tallest above the water level.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Lord_Selkirk_II
Not a southern steamboat, but a shipwreck, in Manitoba! The MV Ithaca.
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/ithaca.shtml