Stories

The Tsimshian Defeat the Tlingit

It was as if a dam broke, when 1500 years ago a wave of migrants invaded northern Tsimshian territory. Nothing

The house on 139 Market Place played very much a minor character in my last post on Prince Rupert’s Sunken

Surely the suffering was almost over. The cost had been so high. Thousands of young men had come for jobs,

Entering Prince Rupert’s downtown via McBride Street is a journey that puts on display some of the best Prince Rupert

Charlie Lane was a man of opportunity. He was a self-styled “Colonel,” one of those San Francisco mining speculators who

In 1998 I presented a paper at the Canadian Archaeological Association annual conference in Victoria, identifying major events in the

In the mid1980s, I was researching the early history of Prince Rupert for the new Kwinitsa Railway Station Museum exhibits.

Thoughts

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands

I was intrigued when Susan Marsden proposed the idea of this blog, with a few of us telling historical stories.