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We have a great selection of books written about the Prince Rupert area. Check out the
store for full collection, many of the books we have are out-of-print and unavailable anywhere else.
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Prince Rupert is situated on one of the
world's finest natural harbours and is served by a railway colossus with the greatest geographic reach of any North American
railroad. It is strategically located on the western Pacific Rim, 500 miles closer to the largest of Asia's markets than
any other North American port. Three state-of-the-art terminals have been completed at the port over the last 25 years at
a cost of two-thirds of a billion dollars. Though development of the Port and its railway connection
started in 1906, both languished for most of the next 70 years. They then went through a period of rapid development and increasing
throughput for the next 20 years, but since have fallen on very hard times. Why has this happened? It's
all here in Hay's Orphan. The history of the north coast of BC is traced back to when the first Spanish, Russian,
British and American explorers were vying for control of the Pacific Coast of North America. Dr. Hick provides an engaging,
compelling and thoroughly researched history of the Port, complete with skullduggery, backroom deals, political hot air and
conniving, irrational exuberance, the boom and bust cycles of natural resource production and agricultural exports, and hard-won
dreams, all painted on a backdrop of the BC wilderness from the earliest explorers, to Canada as an infant nation during the
early railway mania, and on up to the present day. This is the book that will finally prove that Canadian history is anything
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Immediately following Pearl Harbour, the United States shipping facilities in the Pacific
were running at full capacity, but it was still not enough to combat the serious Japanese threat. At this critical juncture,
Prince Rupert, located in British Columbia, Canada, was placed at America’s disposal, to ship troops and materials to
Alaska to fend off the enemy. It was, as many called it, an “American Invasion.” With Japanese submarines lurking
off of Prince Rupert, thousands of Canadian Army, Navy, and Air Force, were posted to man the fort defence system, fly reconnaissance
missions, and protect the dry dock and shipyard, all vital to the Pacific war effort. All eyes were peeled for the enemy.
The City was truly at war. Drawing from a diverse field of information, making use of published, primary, first hand recollections,
and photographs, this book puts the events and developments of these years all together into one definitive source.
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In his introduction to this
new edition, Kenneth Campbell puts this British Columbia classic into perspective. “How different the world was when
Dr. R. G. Large wrote Skeena: River of Destiny. The highway, actually a gravel road, connecting Prince Rupert with Terrace
and the rest of the country was barely a decade old. The railway was still the principal mode of transport . . . . The Aboriginal
people of the Skeena, and of Canada, were denied the vote in Federal elections.”
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