{"id":3813,"date":"2011-10-27T22:06:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T05:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=3813"},"modified":"2011-10-27T22:06:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T05:06:43","slug":"release-shipwreck-cemetery-walk-ss-princess-sophia-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/27\/release-shipwreck-cemetery-walk-ss-princess-sophia-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Release: Shipwreck Cemetery Walk &#8211; SS Princess Sophia Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/Steamship.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3814\" title=\"Steamship\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/Steamship.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please join us for a shipwreck themed walking tour with local historian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnatkin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Atkin<\/a> at Mountain View Cemetery. We will tell the story of the SS Princess Sophia disaster which took place on October 25, 1918 while sailing from Skagway to Vancouver. In this tragedy all were lost except an oil-soaked dog that managed to swim to shore despite the frigid water.<\/p>\n<p>The walking tour will visit the graves of the shipwreck\u2019s victims and tell their story through news accounts and letters of the day. The tour will be conducted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnatkin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Atkin<\/a>, a civic historian and author who has written books and articles on the history of Vancouver.<br \/>\nDATE: <strong>Sunday October 30 at 4pm<\/strong><br \/>\nLOCATION: <strong>Celebration Hall, Mountain View Cemetery &#8211; 5445 Fraser Street (enter at 39th Ave)<\/strong><br \/>\nADMISSION: <strong>free<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Shipwreck Cemetery Walk is presented by the Charles H. Scott Gallery and the Vancouver Maritime Museum in conjunction with The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part II. For more information contact the Charles H. Scott Gallery at 604 844 3809.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for a shipwreck themed walking tour with local historian John Atkin at Mountain View Cemetery. We will tell the story of the SS Princess Sophia disaster which took place on October 25, 1918 while sailing from Skagway to Vancouver. In this tragedy all were lost except an oil-soaked dog that managed to<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/27\/release-shipwreck-cemetery-walk-ss-princess-sophia-disaster\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Release: Shipwreck Cemetery Walk &#8211; SS Princess Sophia Disaster&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[6105,6101,5474,6102,361,6103,4983,6104,3364,4739,6100,214,3199],"class_list":["post-3813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-604-844-3809","tag-celebration-hall","tag-charles-h-scott-gallery","tag-civic-historian-and-author","tag-john-atkin","tag-local-historian","tag-mountain-view-cemetery","tag-oil-soaked-dog","tag-princess","tag-skagway","tag-sophia-disaster","tag-vancouver-2","tag-vancouver-maritime-museum"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Release: Shipwreck Cemetery Walk - SS Princess Sophia Disaster - Spacing Vancouver<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/27\/release-shipwreck-cemetery-walk-ss-princess-sophia-disaster\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Release: Shipwreck Cemetery Walk - SS Princess Sophia Disaster - Spacing Vancouver\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Please join us for a shipwreck themed walking tour with local historian John Atkin at Mountain View Cemetery. 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