“The greatest nautical disaster in prairie history…”
Though these words may, at first, seem absurd – they are absolutely and undeniably true!
The Last Steamship: The Search for the SS City of Medicine Hat is a feature-length documentary which delves into the infamous history of the luxurious SS City of Medicine Hat, a 130 ft steamship which met her untimely end on June 7th, 1908 when she crashed into the newly constructed Traffic Bridge in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and sank to the bottom of the swiftly flowing river.
One hundred years later, after the happenstance discovery of the ship’s anchor by Saskatoon Fire & Protective Services divers, a full-scale underwater excavation was launched in an endeavor to locate artifacts from the ship and attempt to piece together the story of the last steamship to ever embark upon the waters of the South Saskatchewan. And now, you’re invited to come onboard and join the search!
The Last Steamship provides a riveting and educational exploration into Saskatchewan’s Steamship Era, through a week-long excavation in search of the remains of the vessel that caused steamshipping in the prairies to literally crash to a halt – the ill-fated SS City of Medicine Hat – and the quest to understand her equally fascinating owner, the eccentric and intrepid Captain Horatio Hamilton Ross, whose ambitious and thrilling antics would change the prairies forever.
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