Prince Rupert on Kaien Island lies near the mouth of the Skeena River and that is where we find Patrick today having travelled for 18 hours on a ferry from his last destination Campbell River.
Named in 1906 for Prince Rupert, first governor of the Hudson Bay Company, it began as a tent town and developed after 1914 as the terminus of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. In the 1970s it became the western terminus of the Yellowhead Highway from Edmonton.
In 1985 Kazukio Sakamoto took his vessel, the Kazu Maru, out to fish in local waters. Tragically neither he nor the boat returned home.
Eventually the Kazu Maru was taken to Prince Rupert where it was restored The her voyage, the park surrounding boat was built as a dedication to all mariners whose lives have been lost at sea, a bronze statue of a fisherman holding his boats steering all those
The fishermans wife referred to the Kazu Maru as ‘the love of his life and he would have been happy to know the little craft was part of a park honouring mariners lost at sea.
During World War II, the strategic geographical position of the city resulted in the arrival of thousands of American and Canadian troops which used the port for obtaining supplies and materials.
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