Prince Rupert Harbor Open All Year Round
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A Prince Rupert Residence

Prince “Rupert Carbor
and °factlities

RINCE RUPERT has a natural harbor, completely
landlocked and with good holding ground for
anchorage. The maximum rise of tide is 24 feet, mean
range 15 feet; minimum depth of anchorage at low water
15 fathoms. Approach to harbor is easily accessible with
lights and buoys provided. Pilots are available. After a
navigator has once entered the harbor he can do so
afterwards without the aid of a pilot. The distance from
the docks to ocean is 30 miles. There is a wireless station
aut Digby Island, connected to Prince Rupert by telephone,
capable of communicating with stations 500 miles distant,
also a quarantine station and docks. There is no Harbor
Board at Prince Rupert, consequently no tonnage taxation.
The Dominion Government maintains a_ biological
research station at Prince Rupert.
Canadian Customs Office
port in the world

Ships can clear to any

There are eight wharves, including the following:
Canadian National, 1,300 and 860 feet long respectively,
with warehouses thereon 600 feet and 800 feet long re-
spectively, equipped with Barlow elevators and conveyors.
Provincial Government wharf 500 feet long with two
story warehouses and offices. Imperial Oil Company’s
wharf, Union Oil Company’s wharf, Home Oil Company’s
wharf, lumber assembly wharf and others, making a total
frontage of some 4,000 feet, in addition to the elevator
wharf.

The Imperial, Union Oil and Home Oil companies
have large storage capacities for oil. The depth of water
at all wharves is 35 to 40 feet at low tide.

The city has a first class hospital with fully equip-
ped operating theatre, X-rays, etc.

The Canadian National Steamship Company operates
one of the largest dry-docks in America with a capacity
of 20,000 tons and a length of 600 feet, with a fully
equipped marine repair shops and foundry, and a_ ship-
building plant in connection. The dock is in three sec-
tions.

Stone or gravel ballast is available. In the matter
of marine. insurance Prince Rupert is on a parity with
other large Pacific seaports, being excluded from the
North American Warranty.