The British Columbia company was established in 1922 by Douglas Hayes, a parts dealer, and partner W. Anderson from Quadra Island.
Together they are known as the Laich-kwil-tach (historically known as the Euclataws or Yucultas, names more familiar to speakers of British Columbia English).
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As if in anticipation of the indignities of her later groundings and collisions, the Cardena’s well-earned moment of glory came in the summer of 1927, when she freed the CNR liner SS Prince Rupert from the clutches of Ripple Rock in Seymour Narrows, a treacherous, three-mile tidal surge lying in Discovery Passage between Vancouver Island and Quadra Island.
She replaced the original Quadra Queen on the Campbell River–Quathiaski Cove (Quadra Island) route.