Stewart

STEWART, district municipality, pop 661 (2001), lies at the head of Portland Canal on the Alaska border (see PORTLAND INLET). It is named for 2 brothers, John and Robert Stewart, prospectors who settled at the site in 1902. For a while it was a MINING boomtown with a population that reached 10,000. As the mines gave out, residents drifted away, and the community continued to depend on the vagaries of the mining industry. Hyder is just across the US border. In the 1990s Hollywood discovered...

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