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BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
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PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.
C.
THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER
17,
1949
iNihliahed
at
Canada'a
Mont
Stratejfii
Pacific
Port
"Prince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest."
An
International
Edilion
published
jointly
nidi
die
Ketchikan
Chronicle
as
a
prelude
to
Alaskan
Statehood
and
Industrial
Development
To)
is
COMMON
DESTINY
year
for
the
first
time
regular
shipments
of
refrigerated
perishable
products
were
delivered
to
Prince
Rupert
from
the
central
United
States
by
Canadian
National
Railway
and
transferred
to
barge
for
delivery
to
Haines
and
thence
by
truck
and
highway
to
central
Alaska
over
the
Haines
Cut-off
and
the
Alaska
Highway.
Gradually,
Alaska
is
increasing
its
use
of
the
port
of
Prince
Rupert.
Statehood
for
Alaska,
under
w
hich
certain
shipping
restrictions
mitigating
against
Canadian
ports
and
shipping
would
be
removed,
the
establishment
of
a
car
ferry
service
between
Prince
Rupert
and
Haines,
Alaska,
in
the
process
of
organization,
and
the
consummation
of
pulp
mill
projects
for
Ketchikan
and
elsewhere
In
southeastern
Alaska,
w
hich
would
provide
huge
outgoing
tonnage
from
today's
territory
and
to-
morrow's
state,
would
vastly
increase
this
port's
function
of
serving
Alaska.
It
is
to
emphasize
these
factors
that
the
newspapers
cf
Ketchikan
and
Prince
Rupert,
are
get-tint?
together
in
this
joint
international
edition
which
has
the
sponsorship
of
the
Prince
Rupert
Trades
and
Labor
Council.
,
"
Cf'
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u
k
n
fJ
.
&
AL
GULF
ALASKA.
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PRINCE
RUPERT
I'
'
wf$JfoY
ALASKA
It
only
needs
this
map
to
illustrate
how
the
destinies
ot
Alaska,
the
territory
which
expects
soon
to
become
a
state,
and
the
port
of
Prince
Kupert,
whose
strategic
advantages
in
the
Paciiic
theatre
have
long
since
been
established
and
practically
demonstrated,
are
indissolubly
linked.
'
Neither
artificial
barriers
set
up
to
prevent
the
use
of
natural
and
economic
trade
and
transport-alion
processes
nor
political
and
financial
manipulations
can
permanently
frustrate
the
exercise
of
natural
relationship
and
inevitable
co-ordinativc
functions.
Prince
Rupert,
the
most
northerly
terminus
on
the
Pacific
Coast
of
a
transcontinental
railway
and
a
continental
highway
system;
Prince
Rupert,
one
of
British
Columbia's
two
principal
ports,
railway,
highway,
shipping
and
aviation
centre,
is
the
natural
entry
port
to
Alaska.
Only
forty
miles
from
the
southerly
tip
of
the
Alaskan
Panhandle
and
ninety-six
miles
from
Ketchikan,
Alaska's
first
port,
such
other
Alaska
ports
as
Wrangcll,
Petersburg,
Juneau,
Haines
'
and
Skagway
are
all
within
375
miles
of
Prince
Rupert.
Prince
Rupert
is
500
miles
closer
to
southeastern
Alaska
than
Seattle,
the
original
port
of
Alaska--
factor
that
is
becoming
increasingly
recognized.
This
advantage
also
holds
for
western
Alas-
ka
ports
such
as
the
new
metropolis
of
Anchorage.
For
many
years
now
Prince
Rupert
has
handled
hundreds
of
carloads
of
fish
annually
from
Alaska
for
transshipment
East
over
the
Canadian
National
Railways.
That
is
established
traffic.
There
have
also
been
barge
transshipments
of
lumber
from
southeastern
Alaska
sawmills.
This
It
was
first
sent
to
"Edmonton
and
from
there
routed
to
Prlncr
Drill
Oil
On
Rupert
to
be
loaded
on
a
steamer'
Charlottes
.
The
oil
well
site
Is
north
of
Skldegate
village
on
Graham
land.
"
Many
other
prospective
iflmw
the
p
illion
ami
proximity
of
Prince
Ru'
would
connect
the
transcontinental
railway
and
highway
termin-
A
Rnyalite
drilling
rig,
Is
now
l0u
wen
site8
are
to
be
drilled,
ac-"
betting
up
on
Queen
Charlotte
I
cording
to
present
expectations.
i'.y
miles
from
the
tip
of
the
"Panhandle,"
In
rela-
us
of
Prince
Rupert
with
southeastern
Alaska
ports
including
at
It
shows
to
Alaska
the
famous
"Inside
Passage'
nearby
Ketchikan,
the
highway
port
or
Haines
and
the
railway
the
route
for
a
Proposed
Car
Ferry
Service
which
port
of
Skagway.
i
Islands
to
Inaugurate
epoch
mak-
These
Include
a
number
ot
14-
inp;
oil
drilling
in
an
area
which
hands
between
Victoria
and
Van-
i
has
long
ben
regarded
promising.
1
couver.
From:
Our
Parliamentarians
FEDERAL
PROVINCIAL
IMmice
Etutgjeirit
"Tie
Gateway
to
Alaska"
extend
to
Northern
and
Central
British
idw
to
Alaska
my
very
best
wishes
for
fanned
nrosneritv
and
advancement,
and
It
is
with
great
pleasure
that
British
Columbia
anticipates
that
Alaska
will
soon
achieve
"Statehood."
This
has
long
been
a
point
of
discussion
and
it
is
in
accord
with
industrial
expansion
of
trade
and
commerce
in
the
North
that
our
good
neighbor
Alaska
should
graduate
from
a
terri
'pitulations
on
their
present
development
i-i-v
-
I
-.1
i
ii;
future
nrosnects.
r
or
Alaska,
we
all
'A
that
statehood
is
not
far
away.
The
SALUTES
ECeitcIhinEcaini
tory
to
the
4'Jth
state.
TffAiu'P
of
the
Tor
since
our
geographical
location,
whole
north
American
continent.
si
many
aspect
of
natural
resources,
and
Indus
Good
luck
and
success
to
all.
l-indiuu
riiHlional
uf-
trial
development
are
so
similar,
let
Alaska
and
British
Columbia
advance
together
along
the
path
of
progress,
helping
each
other
whenever
possible
and
living
in
an
atmosphere
of
"good
neighbors."
S'ly
a
guarantee,
of
"t'jncpiiH'iil
in
keep-fqiuri'iiif-nls.
I
feel
'
lh
hoped-for
pulp
!,Wnt
will
also
ma-
''firailun
t.f
the
tug
f
lias
.shown
I
'"""'nw
A
'
!j
Alaska
and
Central
Columbia
are
Involved
During
the
war,
the
feasibility
of
Prince
Rupert
providing
a
shorter
and
quicker
route
to
Alaska
was
realized.
Therefore
there
is
no
reason
why
this
shipping
route
through
Prince
Rupert
(with
restrictions
removed
cannot
prove
economically
sound
under
post
war
conditions.
.
A
barge
service
has
been
In
operation
all
summer
and
It
Is
hoped
that
a
car
ferry
will
be
established
to
connect
the
highways
of
Alaska
with
those
of
Northern
British
Columbia.
Trince
Rupert
and
Southern
Alaska
both
have
as
their
main
Industries
fishing
which
will
always
be
of
major
importance.
Prince
Rupert
has
under
construction
a
Oelanese
mill.
Southern
Alaska
likewise
has
the
prospect
of
puip
mils
being
established
in
the
near
future.
Therefore,
may
I
say
again,
we
of
British
Columbia
welcome
Alaska
to
Statehood
and,
x
1
1
i-v
y
ws
Interests.
It
is
'"nm
Hut
a
fun-ar
lry
will
follow
11
Brlt.Ui
Cnlumbla's
'
prosimiiy
is
11()W
hile
the
Columbia
.k
I
X
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A,,,,,!;,.;;..!
;
'
f
CaniHlu
develop-
I
''"Pni'spfTtaeular
!
.yar,ou!v
two
;lOMrposilW;
one
i
jl'ewiwvi
the
1
EDWARD
T.
AITLEWHA1TE.
M.
P.
for
Bkeena.
J.
D.
McRAE,
M.L.A.
settlement
In
1910
during
construction
of
the
Grand
Trunk
Pacific
Railway
and
was
Incor
veaHng
cnougli
rich
soil
to
sup-
f
CcntrPjj
bv
the
village
of
port
a
population
many
time.v
of
population
lerrace
wo.n
v
has
Its
Its
present
2,400,
which
.....
.....,,.!
h,.,.i,h,,np
several
around
a
1000
the
district
is
at
City
!
porated
as
a
village
In
1927.
Its
UHlliavi
"
sawmills,
large
and
small,
close
destined
to
be
a
focal
,
point
i,f
of
I
errace
-THERE
HAS
ALWAYS
BEEN
A
CLOSE
I
TIE
BETWEEN
PRINCE
RUPERT,
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
MOST
NORTHERLY
SEAPORT,
AND
KETCHIKAN,
MOST
SOUTHERLY
ALASKAN
PORT
OF
CALL.
CONSTRUCTION
OF
THE
COLUM-'
BIA
CELLULOSE
CO.
IS
MAKING
ONE
OF
OUR
DREAMS
COME
TRUE
AND
WE
REJOICE
THAT
KETCHIKAN.
ON
THE
EVE
OF
ALASKA
STATEHOOD
MAY
BE
SIMILARLY
FAVORED
BY
THE
LOCATION
OF
A
PULP
MILL
THERE.
N.
E.
Arnold
Mayor.
population
in
years
to
come.
by.
principal
Industry
is
logging
and
lumbering,
which
accounts
tor
about
$.r)00,000
cut
of
Its
$600,000
annual
district
pay
There
is
more
than
a
touch
Rome
dav
if
proposed
plans
of
the
Okauagan
In
the
mellow
an
ahlnmulM
development
sunlight
which
ripens
its
fruit
Mm
ftre
compleled.
roll.
There
are
about
55
indiv
idual
forestry
operations,
log
glng
camps
and
sawmills
In
the
umnrd
mJke
H
one
of
the
It
may
be
one
of
the
major
wu0
crvtu
in
cen-
ties
of
the
province
Fa
grt:n
s
i.
.
4
"f
Terrace
as
(Continued
on
Page
7)
,
-Drj
an.
I..
t.roi
nritish
Columbia.
Terrace
was
established
as
a
,!
I
1
U,h,fit
f
thruu.huut
Canada
and
Iniled
State.
""?n
thousands
of
people
organ,d
rly
the
w
.nd
that
one
Sect,o
and
&i'i..n.
it
.
hereby
exp.ained
that
the
issue
Panned
ploduced
.he,
due
to
circumstances
Bretno
iC:?.77'u;
."
replaced
by'
P.
H.
Unxey
as
secretary
secretary
of
of
the
the
Prince
Prince
Rupert
Kup-
Chamber
-.
of
Cornmerce.
"7
n
"
n.
.
'Willi,
.
-
-
,
..
.
.
M-
sirwart.
nn
ine
rir-iu
.
Zh"
bC
iS
!"rVr':nra;;
northern
minin,
camps
of
Stewart
"in.u.
"Miaiii.
are
now
iu
nunn
wmah
Tk
,
.
.
iir
uve,
a
.irilinilv
taken
on
new
lease
ui
'
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