Some time ago a poster, EngineerChief, posted information on this. From her research she found that there was a Salvation Army home in Vancouver at the time of 0’s birth but unfortunately it has long gone. You cannot contact her at this time because she has no internet right now. You could do a search on her user name and you will find tons of research. I don’t know anything about ferries but I used to live very close to the American border in Ontario. We would often go across with our children and never had to show more than a driver’s licence for my husband. If the birth had been in Vancouver or perhaps White Rock, the friend of her mother that she told her high school friend she was staying with, could have driven up to pick her up. She would have told the American agent she was going to Canada for the day—no documents necessary. Then on the way back they would have told the Canadian agent they were going home to Seattle—again no documents and away they would go. Easy as pie. We did this many, many times even when our children were very young babies.
I think you mean Chief Engineer.