The Alaska Steamship Company was formed on August 3, 1894. While it originally set out to ship passengers and fishing products, the Alaska Steamship Company began shipping mining equipment, dog sleds, and cattle at the outbreak of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897. The company was purchased by the Alaska Syndicate and merged with the Northwestern Steamship Company in 1909. It retained its name, and the fleet expanded to 18 ships. During World War II, the government took over the company's ships. After the end of the war, the company struggled to compete with the new Alaska Highway for passengers and freight. It discontinued passenger service altogether in 1954 and shut down operations in 1971.

Dame Emma Albani, stage name of Marie-Louise-Cécile-Emma Lajeunesse, soprano (b at Chambly, Canada E 1 Nov 1847; d at London, Eng 3 Apr 1930). Her parents were her teachers in Chambly, Plattsburgh and Montréal, where she gave her first concert in 1856. She was to become the first Canadian-born artist to distinguish herself in the international world of opera, oratorio and concert singing. After studies in Paris and Milan, she made her opera debut at Messina, Italy, as Oscar in Un Ballo in maschera (1869), but her first real triumph came soon after, as Amina in La Sonnambula. This was to be her debut role in London (1872), Paris (1872) and New York (1874). Though attached to Covent Garden, London, she steadily pursued her international career in many countries. In 1891-1892 she sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. By the time she retired from the opera stage in 1896, she had sung 43 leading roles. She made about a dozen enthusiastically received Canadian tours, 1883-1906.
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A. Albers was an American naturalist and illustrator of the naturalists’ publications in Ohio in the late 1800s and the early 1900s.