Rupert Inlet

Rupert Inlet (50˚35'00" 127˚30'00" NE arm of Quatsino Sd, NW Vancouver I). The inlet, formerly known as Rupert Arm, was named after Ft Rupert, the HBC trading post established not far away on Beaver Hbr on the NE coast of Vancouver I. Chief trader William McNeill supervised the building of the fort in 1849, after coal had been found in the region, and served as its first manager, with George Blenkinsop as his assistant. A number of Kwagiulth people (members of the Kwakwaka’wakw First...

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