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CP) RINCE RUPERT isa Pacific Terminus of the Cana-
dian National Transcontinental Railway, and the
third largest seaport in British Columbia. It is located
on one of the finest harbors in the world, which is about
ten miles long and from one to three miles wide and is
open to navigation all the year round, being entirely free
from ice conditions also winter fogs, and has water deep
enough for ocean going vessels to land at its wharves at
all stages of the tides. It is destined to be the port
through which will pass the products of the northern sec-
tions of Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Peace River
District for trans-shipment to the Orient and Europe.

Prince Rupert, being 485 miles nearer the Orient
than any other Pacific Coast port, is the logical link be-
tween Eastern Canada, the Prairie Provinces and the
Orient. Fully twenty-four hours steaming on the Pacific
is saved by using this port. The railway grade east from
Prince Rupert is exceptionally low, being only 4/10ths of
one per cent., as compared with two per cent. grades on
other parts of the Pacific Coast.

Prince Rupert has a good train service to and from
the East. The route traversed is one of the most scenic
in America and follows the banks of the River Skeena, in
which the famous Sockeye salmon spawns.

The palatial boats of the following world-known
steamship companies: Canadian National Steamship Co.,
Canadian Pacific Steamship Co., and the Union Steamship
Company, all make three or four calls each week at the
port, thus ensuring very frequent connections with Van-
couver, Victoria and Seattle to the south, and Ketchikan,
Juneau and Skagway in Alaska.

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The terminus of the Canadian National Railway.

The Central administrative point for the whole of Central
and Northern British Columbia.

The nearest point in British Columbia to the Orient.

The centre of the halibut and salmon fishing business.

The centre of an extensive mining and lumbering district.