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Photos - Frames left and center: Standing on the shore of Kootenay Lake looking toward the SS Moyie through a row of docking pilings from the entrance to a small boat repair yard's slipway tracks.

Frame right: A rusty old pulley block beside the tracks.

In 1968, experienced draftsman and shipbuilder, Dick Smith, moved his family from Calgary, Alberta to Kaslo, British Columbia and began building unique charter vessels on Kootenay Lake. Smith saw a need for a design which surpassed the ordinary houseboat - something that could easily withstand the occasional and unpredictable challenges posed by a lake the size of Kootenay. While being seaworthy, the houseboats would also have to be comfortable, homey, suitable for fishing and easily maneuverable.

Smith launched his first ship in 1970, and today the Kaslo Shipyard's fleet still "rules the waves" of Kootenay Lake with ease and pride.

Photos - A boat/ship repair yard at the edge of Kootenay Lake with MV Cacambo in a cradle upon the slipway track. The Cacambo named after Cacambo of Voltaire's Candide was one of the first ships launched here in 1970.

Photos - L-R - On the Slipway track is an electric motor rigged on a chassis made to fit the slipway track, used to pull ships out of the water along the tracks into a drydock birth.

The lakeside view of the Canadian Pacific Building in the 300 block of Front Street with the SS Moyie in background.

White Goat Gallery at 344 Front Street is clearly a vintage building that was built when Kaslo was a young puppy of a town in the early 1900s.

Click here for more photos of Historic Kaslo for this day.