Rushbrook Passage

Rushbrook Passage (54˚36'00" 130˚27'00" Between the Tsimpsean Peninsula and Birnie I, N of Prince Rupert). Named in 1927 after Anglican clergyman Walter Field Rushbrook (1868–1951), first superintendent of the Prince Rupert Coast Mission, 1911–28, and skipper of the mission boat Northern Cross. Rushbrook came to BC’s N coast in 1903 and served as a minister at Port Essington. He conducted the first church service at Prince Rupert, in a tent, in Nov 1906. In 1909, supplied with a small...

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