Prince Rupert

BRITISH COLUMBIA

The Pacific Coast Terminus of the Grand Trunk
Pacific Railway

In the western half of this New World there is scarcely a city
that does not hold one or more citizens who can boast of having
seen the place grow from a village to what it is today, but here,
at the western end of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, we have
the rare opportunity of looking forward and fashioning in our
mind’s eye a city sure to be.

Prince Rupert is situated 550 miles north of Vancouver and
forty miles south of the Alaskan Boundary. It is in the same
latitude as London, and has a climate the mean temperature
of which is about the same as that of the metropolis of the
British Isles.

The selection of the Pacific Coast terminus was one of the
most important tasks with which the builders of this national
highway had to do. Many things must be considered. It must
have a harbor second to none, and lie where the rails could reach
it without seriously lengthening the line, or increasing the gradi-
ents. The entire north coast was searched, and every harbor
sounded before a final decision was made. The very satisfactory
result is that the future metropolis of the north coast will look
out upon a harbor that is all that could be hoped for. Although
practically land-locked, it has a mile-wide channel, and is suf-
ficient in size to shelter all the ships that are likely to come to it,
great as are the possibilities of this new port.

And because Prince Rupert is at the end of the line, and the
nearest port to Japan and the East; because it is on the shortest
line from Liverpoo! to Yokohama, the shortest route around the
world, it is bound to lie on the

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The city was planned in advance of any building, and
nothing was overlooked which would add to the beauty and
symmetry of this city to be.

In 1905 a grant of 10,000 acres of land at Prince Rupert
was obtained by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company from
the Provincial Government of British Columbia, and 14,000
acres of Indian Reserve land was afterwards purchased, making a
total of about 24,000 acres for the purpose of the townsite and the
development of the port. Under the usual conditions of Crown