News Items tag as: Waterway Houseboats

Waterway Houseboat land sale underway, campsite planned
November 28, 2019 - 9:14 AM

The future of the vacant Waterway Houseboats property is looking brighter with plans for a beach, park and RV campground coming together.
Waterway Houseboat owed $13 million when it went into receivership
June 28, 2019 - 6:00 PM

KELOWNA - Waterway Houseboats owed more than $13 million when it was put into receivership.
Left in the lurch: Houseboat owners face big losses after Waterway closed
June 19, 2019 - 6:30 AM

SICAMOUS - Don Vandergaag has spent most of the last 40 years working for Sicamous houseboat company Waterway. And he’s spent most of the last week trying to make sense of what will happen now that the company he and so many others depended upon has suddenly gone under.
Waterway Houseboats customers told 'no refunds are available'
June 14, 2019 - 3:10 PM

SICAMOUS - Both employees and the people who booked vacations with Waterway Houseboats in Sicamous are still reeling from the company going under.
UPDATE: Waterway houseboat vacationers worried they will never see their money, company put into receivership
June 11, 2019 - 3:00 PM

SICAMOUS - Two weeks ago Daniel Stewart paid in full for his July vacation on Waterway Houseboats in Sicamous.
UPDATE: Waterway houseboats goes into receivership after lawsuit against province
June 11, 2019 - 9:24 AM

SICAMOUS - Sicamous houseboat company, Waterway, went into receivership today, June 11, on the heels of a high profile lawsuit.
Judge orders province, Sicamous to pay for negligence in 2012 floods
April 18, 2019 - 2:30 PM

SICAMOUS – Taxpayers will have to foot the majority of a $2.3 million award after a Supreme Court Justice found the province, the District of Sicamous and a private property owner partially responsible for damage caused to a houseboat business by the catastrophic floods that drenched parts of the Shuswap in 2012.
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News Items tag as: Waterway Houseboats

Waterway Houseboat land sale underway, campsite planned

Waterway Houseboat owed $13 million when it went into receivership

Left in the lurch: Houseboat owners face big losses after Waterway closed

Waterway Houseboats customers told 'no refunds are available'

UPDATE: Waterway houseboat vacationers worried they will never see their money, company put into receivership

UPDATE: Waterway houseboats goes into receivership after lawsuit against province

Judge orders province, Sicamous to pay for negligence in 2012 floods

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