Inverness Passage

Inverness Passage (54˚11'00" 130˚11'00" Between Smith I and Tsimpsean Peninsula, just S of Prince Rupert). The passage was named in 1908 after the Inverness Cannery, first in the region, built in 1876 by the N Western Commercial Co. The location chosen was originally known as Woodcock’s Landing or Skeenamouth; in 1870 an inn was established there by William H Woodcock and a trading post by Robert Cunningham and Thomas Hankin (who moved to Port Essington the following year). At the time,...

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