Port Essington

PORT ESSINGTON is an abandoned townsite near the mouth of the SKEENA R at the junction with the ECSTALL R. It was long a campsite for the TSIMSHIAN, who knew it as Spokeshute, or Spukshut. In 1871 a northern trader, Robert CUNNINGHAM, established a post, which developed into a small village. He gave it the name Capt George VANCOUVER had given the mouth of the river in 1793, after one of his fellow British naval commanders. By 1890 there were 3 SALMON CANNERIES and a SAWMILL, and during the...

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