thank you to @davidbanks566 for catching some errors in a previous version. This is from about 1960 or 1961 when the terminal was operated by the Black Ball Line (the Puget Sound Navigation Company legally).

0:08 MV Kahloke, later the Langdale Queen. Built as the SS Asbury Park in 1903. She was taken out of service in 1976 and the last remaining parts of the ferry was scrapped only in 2009. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Asbu...
1:09 MV Chinook, later Sechelt Queen. Built in Seattle for the Blakc Ball Line in 1947. It was designed for the overnight service from Seattle to Victoria. There were staterooms aboard her. She was moved to all Canadian routes in 1951 after then US operations of the line were sold to the new Washington State Ferries. Sold by BC Ferries in 1985 and scrapped in 1997. https://evergreenfleet.com/chinookse...
2:37 The MV Bainbridge (which I confused with the SS Smokwa and hence a new uploaded video) waqs builtin in Puget Sound in 1928 for the Black Ball Line. By this time it was the ferry serving the run to Bowne Island. She was renamed the Jervis Quen after BC Ferries took over and they sold the all wood ferry in 1966. https://evergreenfleet.com/bainbridge...

The Black Ball Line started to use Horseshoe Bay in 1851 with a service to Gibsons, later Langdale. A service to Departure Bay was sorted in 1953. Shockingly, the service to Bowne did not start till 1956 when the Black Ball service replaced the Union Steamship service from downtown Vancouver.

At the time of this footage, the ferry terminal is less than ten years old. It was still a very new part of the landscape.

BC Ferries, which started operations in 1960, took over the Black Ball Line in late November 1961.


The original footage comes from the City of Vancouver Archives at this link:
https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/h...

It is unknown who filmed this. The film is public domain.
Music by Dan von Schulmann