Boats of the Mackenzie River watershed carrier business in 1947. The last steam-propelled sternwheelers, the "S.S. Distributor" and "S.S. Mackenzie" were retired around the same time. In later years, with the construction of the Mackenzie Highway from Alberta to Great Slave Lake, the importance of the Athabasca-Slave River route dwindled and NTCL operations were based from shipyards in Hay River after 1959. NTCL became the primary water operator in the Mackenzie River watershed with the purchase of Hudson's Bay Company's fleet and equipment in 1958, and the total buyout of Yellowknife Transportation Company in 1965 including its fleet of diesel tug boats. Other small commercial operators
Cass River (Mackenzie District) Cass River (Mackenzie District) The Cass River is an alpine river in the Canterbury Region of the South Island of New Zealand. It rises in the Hall Range immediately below Rankin Pass, and also receives water from the nearby Huxley Glacier. After dropping very rabidly the river flows south with braided channels along a flat-bottomed valley for . The Leibig Range and Gamack Range are to the west, and the Haszard Range to the east. The river flows into the west side of Lake Tekapo where it has built up a gravel delta. The Cass River is named for Thomas