The final voyage of the Princess Sophia
Falen and Leah discuss the history of a gruesome West Coast shipwreck forgotten to time.
The 1918 shipwreck is the worst maritime accident in the history of British Columbia and Alaska
It's been called Canada's Titanic. 106 years ago the Princess Sophia crashed into a coral reef on route to Vancouver and Victoria. Over 300 passengers died and it was the worst maritime disaster in the Pacific Northwest, so why haven't we heard more about it?
Listen to the episode here, and get transcripts of our series here.
Key References
- Remembering the Princess Sophia: The Titanic of the Pacific West Coast
- The Davis Strait vampires: Chilling (but completely true) events from Canadian history
- The Princess Sophia
- Only Tommy the dog survived: The story of Alaska's most deadly maritime disaster, the 1918 sinking of the Princess Sophia
- The SS Clallam founders in the Strait of Juan de Fuca on January 8, 1904, with a loss of 56 lives.
- Forgotten voyage
- This Week in History: 1918, The Great War finally ends
- 23 historic photos of Vancouver during WWI and WWII
- The doomed ship that haunted a generation
- Purple Death: The Great Flu of 1918
- The Deadly Virus: The Influenza Epidemic of 1918
- New statue at Tee Harbor commemorates mythical sole survivor of the SS Princess Sophia