The sternwheeler Canadian was renowned for her longevity, working on the upper Yukon River from 1898 until being scuttled to serve as as a breakwater to protect the White Pass railway at Whitehorse in 1931. During a major road reconstruction project in April 1997, however, she was buried under hundreds of tons of rock, although the boiler, pistons and sternwheel frame were recovered first. A memorial to the ship was later built just downriver, along the very popular Millennium Trail.

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