Butze Point

Butze Point (Just S of Butze Rapids), Butze Rapids (54˚18'00" 130˚15'00" Between Fern Passage and Morse Basin, E side of Kaien I and Prince Rupert). Both names were adopted in 1908–10 by the Geographic Board of Canada after A Butze, who was a GTP purchasing agent in 1906, when Prince Rupert was established as the railroad’s western terminus. A railway station in Alberta was named for him also. The rapids, according to Sailing Directions, “are dangerous and, at times, spectacular.”...

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