Purchase By Canadian Pacific Navigation Company
In 1883, John Irving Commodore of the Canadian-Pacific Navigation Company, bought Yosemite from her then owners, the Central Pacific Railroad and brought her up to Vancouver to be one of the first vessels of the line.
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