Princess Louise (sidewheeler) Company, which in turn, in 1917, sold the barge to Whalen Pulp and Paper Co., which in the same year beached the hull on Howe Sound at Woodfibre, British Columbia. The unpowered vessel is also reported to have sunk a considerable distance away from Woodfibre, at Port Alice, British Columbia in 1919 on northern Vancouver Island. Princess Louise (sidewheeler) Princess Louise was a sidewheel steamboat built in 1869. From 1869 to 1879 this ship was named "Olympia". In 1879 the name was changed to "Princess Louise", after Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, a daughter of Queen Victoria who was married
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll Gladstonian liberal in the House of Commons. Louise's relationship with the two sisters closest to the queen, Beatrice and Helena, was strained at best. Beatrice had married the tall and handsome Prince Henry of Battenberg in a love match in 1885, and they had four children. Louise, who had a jealous nature, had grown accustomed to treating Beatrice with pity on account of the queen's constant need for her. Beatrice's biographer, Matthew Dennison, claims that in contrast to Beatrice, Louise remained strikingly good looking throughout her forties. Louise and her husband were no longer close, and rumours spread about Lorne's