 In her first season, she went to Hazelton thirteen times, making the trip upstream in forty hours and downstream in ten.Realizing that the "Strathcona" and the "Caledonia" could not compete, the HBC built a third sternwheeler, the "Mount Royal" and hired Captain Johnson as her pilot.On her launch date, April 9, 1902, she got hung up during her launch, and after two hours was freed, only to get caught up again.