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Old Dug-Out Resting From World Cruise in Victoria
The battered dug-out canoe Tillicum, built by local Indians over 129 years ago, arrives from a Thames marine graveyard and sits for public inspection before Crystal Gardens in Victoria B C It carried Captain J C Voss and N K Luxton on a 1901 world trip of 40000 miles and weathered Pacific typhoons and Atlantic hurricanes The voyage was enabled by George S Warren and the Victoria and Vancouver Island Publicity Bureau officials, with a close-up picture shown.
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Thames
London
Crystal Gardens
Victoria
B.C
British Columbia
J. C. Voss
N. K. Luxton
Banff
Pacific
Atlantic
George S. Warren
Victoria and
Vancouver Island