Pamir Memory
This is the personal recollection of Neil from the United Kingdom concerning PAMIR

The sailing ship Pamir came to the grain elevator at North Vancouver about four hundred metres from
where I lived when I was around thirteen  in the mid-1940's.  Memory and imagination get mixed up but I think I could see the top of the grain elevator and her masts among the trees from my bedroom window. Be that as it may, I used to go down through the bush and along the railway line to look at her. She looked very big to me. The grain elevator was a long tall narrow structure on the quay with a siding full of wagons on one side and the ship on the other. I never saw much activity though I might have seen one or two people on the deck. Nor did I ever see her come and go. I suppose tug boats were used.

The same spot was used for loading timber from about 1860.  There is a fine photo of it on some of the North  Van   web sites taken around 1870 showing several ships there on a typical damp day. Perhaps the deeper water comes closer inshore there.

Neil Benton, United Kingdom