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Fortune's Landing, where they would be transported by stagecoach to Okanagan Landing west of Vernon. Many a paddlewheeler became beached on shifting sandbars in the river, and transportation was slow. With the opening of the Shuswap-Okanagan Railway in 1892, the need for paddlewheelers on the
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20:(pronounced /ˈʃuːʃwɑːp/) lies northeast of the
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169:List of tributaries of the Fraser River
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189:"Shuswap River Water Use Plan"
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101:and the beginning of the
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207:. Retrieved
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800:Active Pass
717:Drury Inlet
674:Smith Sound
669:Smith Inlet
551:North Coast
521:Laskeek Bay
503:Haida Gwaii
310:Hydrography
268: /
256:119°03′00″W
71:Arrow Lakes
67:Adams Lakes
1022:Categories
978:Hansen Bay
963:Brooks Bay
930:Toba Inlet
885:Ramsay Arm
860:Howe Sound
792:Salish Sea
707:Call Inlet
702:Bute Inlet
253:50°43′00″N
175:References
152:Mabel Lake
138:Recreation
114:Revelstoke
476:Williston
441:Kinbasket
87:Mara Lake
58:Monashees
48:Geography
456:Okanagan
446:Kootenay
436:Harrison
426:Cowichan
390:Thompson
345:Kootenay
335:Cowichan
330:Columbia
196:BC Hydro
158:See also
95:Sicamous
36:and the
461:Shuswap
451:Nechako
385:Stikine
375:Quesnel
365:Nechako
355:Nanaimo
131:Enderby
127:Enderby
120:History
79:Enderby
63:Shuswap
56:of the
471:Teslin
466:Tagish
421:Babine
380:Skeena
340:Fraser
322:Rivers
416:Atlin
408:Lakes
370:Peace
350:Liard
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99:Chase
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360:Nass
211:2008
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