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The Salmon Queen during the 1948 Flood

Black and white photograph of milk cannisters lined up in a truck bed at a ferry landing.

Image courtesy of The Agassiz-Harrison Historical Society, 1990.043.022.

Milk cannisters ready to be shipped on the Salmon Queen, 1948. With the CPR railway washed out, farmers had to find alternative means of transporting their main product to urban centres in the west.