 Later, the HBC bought the "Hazelton".These new arrangements between the HBC and Robert Cunningham left Captain Bonser without a vessel until 1906 when he took command of the "Pheasant", a small sternwheeler that was the butt of many jokes and nicknamed the "Chicken" because it had to scratch so hard to get upstream.She was wrecked that autumn in the Redrock Canyon, the first loss of Bonser’s long career, although not his last.