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when the old colonial trader Ellen Lewis slipped her moorings from a North Vancouver dock in 1864 and drifted out into Burrard Inlet heading for Adelaide, Australia, her skipper Captain Stephen Hector likely didn't realize he was navigating a new chapter in Canada's, and more specifically British Columbia and Vancouver's, business romance with the Pacific Rim. Some 68 days later the Ellen Lewis, after a fairly uneventful passage, docked and unloaded a cargo of lumber and pickets for fences. It was the first commercial shipment out of the still unorganized Port of Vancouver.

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