Port Edward

PORT EDWARD, district municipality, pop 659 (2001), is located just south of PRINCE RUPERT, 560 km up the coast from VANCOUVER. Named after King Edward VII, the townsite was laid out in 1908 in the expectation that it would be the coastal terminus of the GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RWY. Instead the railway ran to Prince Rupert. Nonetheless, the community developed as a fish canning centre. One of the early canneries, NORTH PACIFIC, built in 1889, has been restored as a museum. By the 1960s the...

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