Port Edward

Port Edward (54˚13'00" 130˚17'00" NW of the mouth of the Skeena R, just S of Prince Rupert). This northern fishing village and Prince Rupert satellite community got its start about 1905, when land was staked by speculators hoping that it, and not Prince Rupert, would be designated the terminus of the GTP. A townsite was laid out in 1908 and named after King Edward VII (1841–1910), the British monarch from 1901 to 1910. Port Edward developed as a fish-processing centre after losing the...

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