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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 .
For more than 35 years, from 1923 to 1958, the Union steamship Cardena sailed the British Columbia Coast, carrying passengers, groceries, dry goods, industrial cargo, mail and sundry other supplies to the 200 or so mining, logging and fishing communities that once dotted the province's coastline during the early years of the 20th century.
Prince Rupert is a port city in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Its location is on Kaien Island near the Alaskan panhandle . It is the land, air, and water transportation hub of British Columbia's North Coast , and has a population of 12,300 people as of 2021.
Canada, British Columbia: Douglas Channel: Coal Harbour: North America: Canada, British Columbia: Burrard Inlet (Merged with Port Metro Vancouver) Vancouver: North America: Canada, British Columbia: Strait of Georgia (including facilities on Burrard Inlet and Fraser River
She sails two routes: the scenic Inside Passage route between Port Hardy and Prince Rupert and the Haida Gwaii crossing between Prince Rupert and Skidegate. The vessel was laid down by Atsalakis-Sidironaftiki shipyard on 11 September 2001 at their yard in Perama, Greece. The ship was launched on 19 October 2002 under the name Adamantios Korais.
The vessel left Germany on January 30, 2009 bound for British Columbia via the Panama Canal. [5] Northern Expedition completed her 9,900-nautical-mile (18,300 km; 11,400 mi) journey on March 6, 2009, passing Victoria and Vancouver before arriving in Departure Bay at Nanaimo for post-voyage inspection.
Ferry terminals in British Columbia (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Ports and harbours of British Columbia" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
The Prince Rupert fall out was enormous and caused two of the UFAWU leaders Homer Stevens and Steve Stavenes to go to jail for acting against court orders to force its members back to work. The strike however did give the rest of the province time to sign trawling agreements which in turn bettered the fishing industry.