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View Eye Witness No. 63 on the NFB.ca site

Eye Witness No. 63 (National Film Board of Canada, 1954):  This newsreel begins with a four-minute story on the final voyage of the Arrow Lakes sternwheeler Minto, seventy years ago this month.  The Minto had served the Arrow Lakes communities for 56 years before she was tied up for good. In this news story, she is shown stopping at Robson West, Renata, and Halcyon Hot Springs. Despite various efforts to preserve and restore the vessel for historic interest, the cost was deemed too high. The Minto was towed out onto the Arrow Lakes one last time and deliberately burned on August 1, 1968.