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Future bright for sprawling

While the overall record
of British Columbia’s first
100 years is one of steady
growth and progress
Prince Rupert's history is
one of great hopes, early
setbacks, revival of ambi-
tions, a period of civie po-
verty, emergence as a mae
jor city and high optimism
for a bigger and better
destiny than was ever

dreamed anticlpated,

With the opentug up of the
vist wrens to the north and onat,
plans for hydro powor and smol-
ter on the Nass Rivor, off on the
Queen Charlotte Jalinds, dovel-
opment of the Rovky Mountaln
trench, and a marine Wahway to
Alnnkn tho elty's future loole ns

bright as the province's as 9
whole,

The story of Prinee Ruport be
Ban after the tury of the cen.
tury, Jn 1005, 12,000 Cunadtans
competed for n sho Prive offorad
by the Grand Trunk Paolfie for
AMINO for its now termini lty,

Winntpog girl chow Prince
port, promoter of the Wudlson's

Way Company and its frat Jove
ernor nn 1070, '

Mrinee Ruport owox ite ovIst~
oneo to the railway whieh was

heler to becenre tho Onnindlan
Natlonal, Hat

Weforo Walon Jolund, nt the
Ma of the Hhoonn, was ahosan
ww they ermine thare wits

; ore ta ho
foLtloment, ua ‘ patted a
el 1002, Ohnvtos M, Vays, whe
dlod when to Titinle Pt Wilt
manngor of the Grand Trunk
J nolfla, Wo promoted n rat! Wo
from North uy to Port Simpuon,

 

 

His enthuslam rosulted in a con-
struction start westward from
Winnipeg in 1908. Deelsion was
reached to start from the west at
Kalen Island rather than at Port
Simpson. In June that yenr, the
first piles were driven for a land-
Ing platform for machinery and
supplies, shipped often around
the Horn, The first steel was lald
at Rupert in 1908 ‘The erentre
had a population of 200 Nylng In
tents. There were three canvas
settlements, Knoxville, Baconvil-
Je and Vickersville,

Churches went up in 1907 and
1008, the Anglicans and Method-
Wits benting the Presbyterian and
Catholics, wio still met In tents,
A school was established and two
wml] hotels, Then businesses
were established, including the
Newspaper, the Bmpire. First
sile of lots was In $000. The
town wis Incorporated and clect-
od tts first counel) undor Mayor
Alfred Stork in JoJo,

_ oO the council with mayor
Stork wore J, WL, Mobloy, Willi
Y, Lynch, V, W, Smith, @. RR, Nae
den, A. A. Mindy ALR M.
Barrow, Jol HW. Wilditeh and 'T.
D. Puttulo who lator beenme a
mombor of the WC. Lowtalature
ind promler of the province,

Dub the route of tw rillwoy
Mong the Skeann was so rough,
(hore wore wlll) no trains The
first train didn't arrive unttl
Aviuat 8 1014, Monnwhile stern-
Whoovlors yilod the river, and in
Tino 1010 the Grand Tront Pae
olflc Btoumehiy Company placed
Veinco Rupert on the shipping
route thon serving Victorin, Vane
cotlvor and Aoathie, Mahing, lyme
boring, Minko and dntterly the
Cohmbite Collwlowy Oo, Ltd,
plant contributes to Peines Rie
pore Hvolthood, Wut Its poton-
lw) worth in world trade rontos
his Never vet hoon fully willived,

Wore Nlovvpscn, wo Toe vite
Wye Hn Ce Tvlinpwonn Ponte

  

 

sula 25 miles north of Prince
Rupert, lost out when the
railway chose Prince Rupert.
Port Simpson had been the site
of an TEBC fort as carly as 1834
—nine years before the found-
ing of Fort. Victoria.

There was no Indian settle-
ment there when the fort was
established, but gradually they
moved their houses until Port
Simpson had a popwlation of 2,-
300. The fort had been moved
from the mouth of the Nass
River when the Russians object-
ed to the coupany trading on the
Stikine which emptied through

 

 

 

B.C. with emphasis on great untapped north

sea.
A Methodist Church which

would seat 800 was built at Port
; Simpson in 1874, and also a

school. A fishing village famed
for its totem poles, survives.
Most B.C. centres owe their
existence In part to the gold
fever which swept B.C. in the
last half of the 19th century,
Observatory Inlet was visited
and christened by Capt. George
Vancouver in 1763. He reportedly
explored thé Kitsnault Tver,
which Nows into AHece Arm, and
landed parties cooked over conl
found there, But though Alice

the Alaskan panhandle to the! Arm's history Is one of minoral

 

| development, no further finds
of coal ever have been: reported.

Mining started in the Alice
| Arm area about 1900. High grade
ore was located at the Dolly
Varden silver mine and a 17-
mile railway was built to bring
out the ore. Cost was so great
the contractors ended up owning
the mine woltch was worked
between 1919 and 1021. Logelng
succecded mining, but this too
dwindled by 1028. Alice Arm al-
most died. Re-opening of the
Torbrit Mine in the 50s convin-
ced the handful of population

 

| to han on.

A power development on the

2 MS PL mae ecrerene

NELSON BROS. FISHERIES
LIMITED

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of gold, The Widden Creek claims

PORT EDWARD, B.C.

Nass and the gencral re-awak-
ening of the north has raised
hopes for the area again.

Not so Anyox, the town that
was there, 95 miles north of
Prinee Rupert on Observatory
Inlet, 18 miles from Alice Arm,
was laid waste by throe big
fires after the population of
2,600 was entirely moved out in
1935.

Anyox, derived from the In-
dian name Hidden Water, was
first explored by white men in
1898. They were led there by
three chiefs from Port Simpson
who had heard of a mountain

      
      
  

 

 
 

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were established. Granby Com-
pany beeame interested in the
copper finds and paid $600,000
for an 80 per cent interest fn

The company then expanded |

$1,000.00
BASEBALL.

TOURNAMENT

AT ROOSEVELT PARK
AUGUST Ind and 3rd

6 TEAMS ENTERED
Game Time—12 Noon

  
     
 

   

 

  
   
   
  
   
    

Admission

 

 

(Continued on Page 98)
Sce — FUTURE

Prince Rupert Dally News 4
Friday, August 1, 1058

 

 

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