 Despite these fine accomplishments, the "Fort Fraser" was never considered to have played a large role during the next few hectic years of rail construction, as the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway crossed the Alberta–BC border in 1912 and made its way towards Fort Fraser, where the last spike would be driven on April 7, 1914.In 1911, Captain Bonser left the "Fort Fraser" and returned to the Skeena River to pilot the new sternwheeler, "Inlander".The "Fort Fraser" was then put under the command of Captain George Ritchie, who was without a ship due to the loss of the "Nechacco" that April, in the ice at the Cottonwood Canyon.