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The ''Beaver'' was the first Steamship to operate in the Pacific Northwest of North America . Launched 2 May , 1835 , the ''Beaver'' was used to service trading posts maintained by the Hudson's Bay Company between Puget Sound and Alaska . In 1862 she was chartered by the Royal Navy to survey and chart the coast of what is now the Province of British Columbia . She was finally sold by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1874 , and served until 25 July , 1888 when she went aground on rocks at Prospect Point in Vancouver , British Columbia 's Burrard Inlet . The wreck finally sank in July, 1892 , but the site of the sinking, just offshore from Vancouver's Stanley Park , is commemorated by a plaque. STATISTICS
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