The Queen of Burnaby was created under the hull number 125 in the Vancouver Shipyards in North Vancouver and has been prepared by the 15 February 1965 stack left. The ferry was named after the town of Burnaby . After the takeover by BC Ferries in May 1965, the ship was put into service on the route from Puget Sound to Strait of Georgia .
In 1973 the Queen of Burnaby was lengthened from 105.27 to 129.98 meters. The width of the ship increased from 3.81 to 4.1 meters; the tonnage from 3,542 to 4,903 GRT .
In May 1994 the Queen of Burnaby went to the Victoria Line under the name Royal Victorian and was used on the route from Victoria to Seattle . In 1997 she was named Princess Marguerite III . After three more years of service, she returned to BC Ferries under her old name in March 2000. It has since been used on the Powell River to Comox route.
In July 2016, the Queen of Burnaby briefly failed due to an oil leak and had to go to the shipyard for repairs. In May 2017, the more than fifty-year-old ship was decommissioned, and she and her sister ship Queen of Nanaimo were replaced by ships of the new Salish class . The Queen of Burnaby has since been launched and is for sale.
