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
Albreda Lake shore of the lake. Albreda Lake Albreda Lake is a lake in Thompson-Nicola Regional District in the Interior region of British Columbia, Canada. It is in the Pacific Ocean drainage basin. The primary inflow, at the northeast, and outflow, at the southeast, is the Albreda River, which flows via the North Thompson River, the Thompson River and the Fraser River to the Pacific Ocean. The locality of Albreda is to the north, and both British Columbia Highway 5 and the Canadian National Railway transcontinental main line (used by freight traffic and the Via Rail "Canadian" train) pass by to the