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Steel singe screw steamer, 1081 tons gross. Built in 1887 in San Francisco for the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company as SS Premier. She was the first vessel on the B.C. coast with electric lights. In 1894, she was renamed Charmer. In 1903, she was acquired by Canadian Pacific when they took over the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, converted to carry automobiles on the Vancouver-Nanaimo run in 1923, rammed and sank CGS Quadra in fog off Nanaimo 1933, sold to H.B. Elworthy in 1935 and finally, broken up, hull burned at Albert Head outside Victoria.

Steel, single screw passenger vessel, 905 tons gross, built in Scotland and owned by William Robertson Company from 1910 to 1911. She was owned by Grand Trunk Pacific Development Company, Montreal between 1911 and 1925, by Canadian National Steamships from 1925 to 1940, and by Union Steamships of Vancouver from 1940 to 1951.

Ship rigged, three masted vessel, 1,447 tons gross. She was built as the sailing vessel Kinross in Liverpool, and owned by Gibson & Company, West Hartlepool, England between 1877 and 1907. She was then owned by Charles Oelckers, Chile from 1907 to 1915, and wrecked in heavy weather off Gowland Rock, (near Tofino) Vancouver Island on 25 November 1915, while on voyage from Valparaiso to Strait of Juan de Fuca. 20 lives were lost.

Double-ended steel rail car ferry, 2,382 gross tons. Built by Davie Shipbuilding & Repair Co. in Québec in 1918, for the Canadian Northern Pacific Railway. By the time she reached British Columbia, the Canadian Northern Pacific Railway had gone into bankruptcy and the vessel was purchased by the newly-established Canadian National Railway to provide rail freight car connection between Sidney and Port Mann (Vancouver). She was withdrawn from service in 1932 due to the depression, and resumed service in 1937 between Point Elice Dock, Victoria and Port Mann. She was retired in 1967, reported by nauticapedia.ca to be still afloat in 2014.