Inside Passage, Prince Rupert and B.C. Coast 1930

These are clips from 16mm footage of what was in 1930 called Canadian National Railway's "Triangle Tour". It was a package that began in Edmonton, Alberta, and took passengers by rail via Hazelton, B.C. to the Port of Prince Rupert on the northern B.C. Coast. It then continued by ferry (in this case the S.S. Prince George, built in 1909) down the Inside Passage to Vancouver. There another C.N. train took passengers northeast to Jasper, thus completing the third side of the 'triangle'. Being from Montreal, twelve-year-old Peter and his father, Clarence, had never seen Tsimshian or Haida totem poles before. Shuffleboard was a novelty for Peter, as was hiking up to Angel Glacier on Mount Edith Cavell, throwing snowballs in summer and drinking from a glacier-fed stream.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Prince Rupert
• Inside Passage
• B.C. Coast
• 1930
• Peter Ewart
• S.S. Prince George
• ferry
• Hazelton
• CNR
• train
• Jasper
• Mount Edith Cavell
• Angel Glacier
• 16 mm film
• old home movies
• Triangle Tour
• totem poles
• Tsimshian
• Haida

[mchlmclean6]

Thank you.. I grew up in Prince Rupert only ever hearing about these days..

and seeing this puts a smile on my face..

[isabelydancer00]

I live in Prince Rupert ..this is sooo cool!!!

[sunonstone]

Some information on the ferry S.S. Prince George: She was the sister ship of the Grand Trunk Steamship Prince Rupert, and served the coast of British Columbia and Alaska. The Prince George served briefly as a Royal Canadian Navy hospital ship in 1914. From 1925, ownership of both Princes was transferred along with the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway system to the Government of Canada to be operated as part of the Canadian National Railway, to Vancouver and then by CNR to Jasper.