It is a storied history.
The vessel Garibaldi II is for sale on Craigslist.
She is currently docked at the Allied Shipbuilders yard in Vancouver.
The 110-foot ferry was used to transport workers and residents of the company townsite back and forth to the Woodfibre pulp mill and the dock at Darrell Bay until the mill closed in 2006. Its owner is asking $20,000, or best offer for the 1964 steel ferry, which was built by McKenzie Barge Ltd.
The seller did not reply to a request for comment from The Squamish Chief.
Squamish's Francine Erickson lived at the Woodfibre townsite and routinely took the ferry on and off the site.
Her family was the last to leave the Woodfibre townsite when it closed in 1973.
She later worked at the Woodfibre pulp mill — which closed in 2006.
It is sad to see it for sale, she said.
When she was a student heading to school in Grade 8 and 9 by ferry, a ride which was 20-odd minutes long, all the kids sat on one side of the ferry and all the workers sat on the other, she recalled.
While the Garibaldi II was equipped to take 400 people, Erickson recalls 60 to 100 passengers as being a typical per trip.
"Everybody had their specific seats and we were always upstairs," she said. "If you are facing the front of the ferry, we were on the right-hand side."
When the trip was rough due to the weather, it was the most fun, she said.
"In about Grade 8 or 9, I can remember mostly the boys going to the top of the ferry and standing in the front and the waves coming up and over top of them and they would come back down drenched."
The captains even let the kids 'steer' the vessel, she said.
She remembers seeing seals and orcas on her later ferry trips to the mill, but not as much marine life as today, due to the pollution in Howe Sound back in the day.
