Do All Inland BC Ferries Offer Year Round Service?
Based on the Government of British Columbia's website there are a number of inland ferries that cross freshwater lakes and rivers in the province.
Do all of these ferries offer year round service?
How is that possible given that (non-moving) freshwater normally freezes in the Canadian winter?
Best Answer
Like Mike Harris commented, inland B.C. surface lake water doesn't freeze in winter. I'll just canvass Francois and Kootenay Lakes that each have ferry. You can read about Upper Arrow Lake, home of Upper Arrow Lake Ferry.
Page 4 of the Kootenay Lake - BC Lake Stewardship Society PDF.
Eddy Carmack, Svein Vagle, John Morrison, Bernard E Laval. Space-for-time proxy for climate change in deep lakes in the Canadian cordillera: Seasonality along a latitudinal climate gradient. Sep 2014.
Mean temperature (near-surface — 120 m) in (a) Kootenay Lake, 1976 – 83 and (b) Quesnel Lake, 2002 – 2012. Dashed line on panels represents 4 °C, the temperature of maximum density.
Page 26 of Francois Lake Management Plan 2000.
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js4330o's answer has covered the larger lakes, but it's worth pointing out that not all of these ferries run year-round. The Big Bar Reaction Ferry and the Usk Reaction Ferry note specifically that they do not run when the water is "low or icy", running an aerial tramway (!) instead. The McClure Reaction Ferry also says "No service during high water or winter freeze up."
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