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Article: Prince Rupert: increasingly popular Canadian Inside Passage port.(ONLY A DAY IN ...)
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- May 1, 2005
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Where in the world is Prince Rupert ... and who is he? Many cruise passengers sailing the Inside Passage bound for the Last Frontier will discover Prince Rupert's charms when they call on the small town in British Columbia, just 40 miles south of the Alaska state line. The name came by way of a country-wide contest. A Manitoba resident won with her suggestion of Prince Rupert, who was a cousin of England's Charles II, and the first governor of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Situated on Kaien Island at the mouth of the Skeena River, Prince Rupert's harbor ranks high in world importance as the deepest ice-free port in North America. In the early 1900s, Charles Hays, ...