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Frank Armstrong
Frank Armstrong was a Columbia River captain. He built the first steamboat to run the upper Columbia at Golden, British Columbia and was still building boats at Golden in 1887.1) Armstrong came north in 1897 to build the sternwheeler Anglian with Captain Charles Edward MacDonald and James Gaudin of F.N. York & Company.2) The Teslin & Yukon Transportation Company (T&YT) was building the sternwheeler in anticipation of the construction of a railway from Telegraph Creek, British Columbia.3) The railway was never built, and Armstrong joined the John Irving Navigation Co in 1898 and ran boats on Tagish Lake and on the Lake Bennett-Atlin run for two seasons.4)
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Jerry E. Green, Yukon Riverboat Captains. 2019 website: http://www.users.miamioh.edu/greenje/
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Edward L. Affleck, A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon and Alaska. Vancouver: Alexander Nicolls Press. 2000: 71.
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“List of steamboats on the Yukon River,” Wikipedia, 2018 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_steamboats_on_the_Yukon_River
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