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The Port of Prince Rupert is a seaport managed by the Prince Rupert Port Authority that occupies 667,731 hectares (1,650,000 acres) of land and water along 20 kilometres (12 miles) of waterfront. The port is located in Prince Rupert Harbour in the North Coast Regional District of British Columbia .
AMHS's Wickersham @ Fairview Terminal, Prince Rupert - c1970 [photo BC Govt Dept of Travel Industry #14727 - VueScan] crop - D. O. Thorne Collection Author Jim from Kitimat, BC, Canada
The forerunner to the Alaska Marine Highway was the Chilkoot Motorship Lines, [6] founded in 1948 by Haines residents Steve Homer and Ray Gelotte. [2] The company used a converted LCT-Mark VI landing craft, christened the MV Chilkoot. [1]
Prince Rupert has an oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb, Trewartha Dolk) and is also located in a temperate rainforest. Prince Rupert is known as "The City of Rainbows", [24] as it is Canada's wettest city, with 2,620 mm (103 in) of annual precipitation on average, of which 2,530 mm (100 in) is rain. In addition, 240 days per year receive at least ...
BC Ferries has the largest fleet of vehicle ferry vessels in the world. There are at least 45 vessels, ranging from small passenger-only water taxis, up to the 358-car Spirit-class ferries. All of the vessels in use by BC Ferries are roll-on/roll-off car ferries. Most of the major vessels are based on similar designs, which are aggregated into ...
Shortly thereafter it was determined that the new ship would be named Northern Expedition and that BC Ferries' other northern vessel (the recently purchased Sonia, the replacement for the sunken Queen of the North) would be named Northern Adventure. [8] The keel of the vessel was laid on June 16, 2008 [3] and she was launched on September 25 ...
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First ship to sail up the western shore of Oahu. [26] Frances Barkley was the first woman to visit and first to write about British Columbia. [25] Inlander: Joseph Bucey 1910-11 John Bonser 1911-12 sternwheeler: Canada: Prince Rupert and Skeena River Navigation Company 1910-1912 abandoned at Port Essington: last sternwheeler on Skeena River ...