Canadian Flag Transport Canada / Transports Canada Government of Canada
Common menu bar (access key: M)
Skip to specific page links (access key: 1)
Transport Canada Library
Library Home
Canadian Transportation Research Gateway
Canadian Transportation Resource Guides
International Transportation Links
Transport Canada Thesaurus
Skip all menus (access key: 2) Transport Canada > Transport Canada Library > Canadian Transportation Resource Guides > Ferries

Ferries


Resources

Belliveau, John Edward,  Silver Donald Cameron and Michael Harrington.  Iceboats to superferries: an illustrated history of Marine Atlantic.  St. John’s, Newfoundland: Breakwater, c1992.

British Columbia.  Crown Corporations Secretariat.  Technical assessment of BC Ferries Corporation / Catamaran Ferries International "PacifiCat" hulls no. 1, 2 & 3, by John J. McMullen Associates, Inc.  Victoria: The Secretariat, 1999.


British Columbia.  Office of the Auditor General.  Performance audits: British Columbia Ferry Corporation.  Fleet and terminal maintenance management.  Operational safety.  Victoria: Queen’s Printer for British Columbia, 1996.


British Columbia.  Office of the Auditor General.  A review of the fast ferry project: governance and risk management.  Victoria: Queen’s Printer for British Columbia, 1999.


British Columbia Ferry Corporation.  Advancing the fleet, building the province: a ten-year development plan for BC Ferries.  Victoria: BC Ferries, 1995.


British Columbia Ferry Corporation.  Annual report.  Victoria: the Corporation, 1979 - .


British Columbia Ferry Corporation.  Discussion paper on tariff equity.  Victoria: British Columbia Ferry Corporation, 2000.  


British Columbia Ferry Corporation.  Fast ferry program - wake and wash study: executive summary.  Victoria: British Columbia Ferry Corporation, 2000.


British Columbia Ferry Corporation.  Inquiry report: Spirit of Vancouver Island and the Star Ruby Collision, September 14, 2000.  Victoria: BC Ferries, 2000.


Canada.  Royal Commission on National Passenger Transportation.  Canadian ferry costs and industry analysis.  Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services, 1992.


Canada.  Transport Canada.  Transportation Development Centre.  Development of a level change system for federally subsidized vessels - Phase 1 problem definition - concept development, (TP 10376), by  D. Vandam and A. J. Coppens.  Ottawa: W. R. Davis Engineering, 1990.


Canada.  Transport Canada.  Transportation Development Centre.  Development of a level change system for federally subsidized vessels: phase II: design and installation, phase III: evaluation, by P. Belloni and A. J. Coppens.  Ottawa: W. R. Davis Engineering, 1992.


Canada.  Transport Canada.  Transportation Development Centre.  Flooding protection of ro-ro ferries: phase I, extension volume I and II, by J. Rousseau.  Montreal: Transportation Development Centre, 1995.


Canada.  Transport Canada.  Transportation Development Centre.  Flooding protection of ro-ro ferries phase II, by J. H. Rousseau.  Vancouver: Polar Design Associates, 1997.


Canada.  Transport Canada.  Transportation Development Centre.  Persons with disabilities: marine/ferry travel in Canada.  Ottawa: Goss-Gilroy Inc., 1995.


Canada.  Transport Canada.  Transportation Development Centre.  Review of the damaged stability provisions in the high speed code, by Ian F. Glen and R. G. Wade (Fleet Technology Limited).  Montreal: Transportation Development Centre, Safety and Security, 1998.


Canada.  Transport Canada.  Transportation Development Centre.  Safety and Security.  Fast ferry evaluation for Canadian routes, (TP 12740), by Ian Glen et al. (Fleet Technology Limited).  Montreal: Transportation Development Centre, 1996.


Canada.  Transport Canada.  Transportation Development Centre.  Safety and Security.  Flooding protection of ro-ro ferries: phase III, by A. Kendrick, M. Pawlowski, and T.H. Peirce. Kanata, Ontario: Fleet Technology, 1998.


Canada.  Transportation Safety Board of Canada. Collision between passenger/vehicle ferry, Spirit of Vancouver Island, and pleasure craft, Star Ruby, Colburne Passage, British Columbia 14 September 2003.


Canada.  Transportation Safety Board of Canada.  Fatal accident to passenger vehicle involving the ferry "Queen of New Westminster" Departure Bay, British Columbia 13 August 1992.  Hull, Quebec: Transportation Safety Board of Canada, 1995.


Canadian Ferry Operators Association.  Annual report.  Sydney, Nova Scotia: The Canadian Ferry Operators Association, 198? - .


Canadian Transportation Agency.  Code of practice: ferry accessibility for persons with disabilities.  Hull, Quebec: Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada, 1998.  [Online].  29 March 2001.  [cited 20 July 2004]; available from http://www.cta-otc.gc.ca/access/codes/ferry/index_e.html.


Clapp, Frank A.  Lake and river ferries.  Victoria: British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Highways, 1991.


CSA International.  Ferry boarding facilities.  Toronto: CSA International, 2001.


Gordon, Hugh A.  Review of fast ferry program.  Victoria: Crown Corporations Secretariat, 1999.


Harrington, Ron (producer and director) and Colin Yardley (writer).  BC’s fast ferries: the building of the PacifiCat 1000.  Vancouver: Open Learning Agency, 1998.  [Video recording].

“The PacifiCat is a new generation of high speed aluminum catamaran vessel soon to be in service in the BC Ferries fleet.”


Inquiry into safety of loading procedures used by British Columbia Ferries. In the matter of an inquiry pursuant to Section 1 of the Inquiry Act into safety of loading procedures used by British Columbia ferries
.  Victoria: Ministry of Finance and Corporate Relations, 1992.


Marine Atlantic Inc.  Annual report.  Moncton, New Brunswick: Marine Atlantic, 1987 - .


Mozersky, Kenneth A., Anne M. Hampel and Paul Lacoste.  Inquiry into level of accessibility of ferry services : final report.  Ottawa: National Transportation Agency of Canada, 1992.


National Research Council Canada.  Institute for Marine Dynamics.  Analysis of experiments on ro-ro damage stability, by Pawlowski, D., D. Molyneux and D. Cumming.  St. John's, Newfoundland: Institute for Marine Dynamics, 1994.


National Research Council Canada.  Institute for Marine Dynamics.  A brief review of ro-ro ferry capsize safety, by Molyneux, W.D.  St. John's, Newfoundland: Institute for Marine Dynamics, 1994.


National Research Council Canada.  Institute for Marine Dynamics.  Damage survivability of ro-ro ferries, by J. H. Rousseau, D. Molyneux and M. Koniecki.  St-John's, Newfoundland: Institute for Marine Dynamics, 1996. 


Penny, Mark.  Staying afloat on rising tax dollars BC Ferries vs’ WSF: a comparative analysis of the British Columbia Ferry Corporation and Washington State Ferries.  Victoria: Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation, British Columbia Chapter, 2000.


Public Works Canada.  A benefit-cost analysis of the Northumberland Strait Crossing project.  Halifax: Gardner Pinfold Consulting Economists Limited, 1993.


Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.  Pacific Northwest Section.  History of Canadian ferries - 1940-1992, by Gibb, George S.  Vancouver: SNAME, Pacific Northwest Section, 1994.

Paper presented at a SNAME Technical Meeting October 21, 1994.


Last updated: 2005-10-05 Top of Page Important Notices