City of Rainbows: Prince Rupert

Founded in 1871, Port Essington was a cannery town on the south bank of the Skeena River between Prince Rupert and Terrace.

This colourized photo featuring Prince Rupert's first businessmen includes…

This colourized photo featuring Prince Rupert's first businessmen includes…

Baker Alberta Bailey (left) arrived…

View of downtown Prince Rupert from Acropolis Hill…

I’ve had quite a few questions about my coloured archival photographs of Knoxville…

In the early twentieth century, the Tsimpshian village of Lax Kw’allams (Port Simpson) had two competing athletic clubs - The Port Simpson Athletic Club (PSAC)…

A man smoking a pipe at a campsite with two tents in Prince Rupert, B.C.

A colourized photo of a group of surveyors and two dogs in front of a tent.

I love how the photographer was able to capture the streak of light through…

A colourized group portrait of Prince Rupert’s first residents assembled on the newly completed GTP Wharf

A group of loggers hired hired by the GTP to clear the Prince Rupert townsite.

Colourized old photo of a man with a dog in a boat

Man and woman on rocky beach

Smartly-dressed people congregate at the bottom of Center Street

People standing in front of a tent house

Steamboat flying the Hudson Bay flag, 1907

The first building in Prince Rupert was located near the GTP Wharf

Colourized old photo of a man on a horse drawn carriage, 1907

Photo colourization of a residential school picnic, Vancouver Island, ca. 1910

Colourized photos of men rushing to buy plots of land from David H. Hays, the sole agent of the Grand Trunk Pacific, Town and Development Co. Ltd.

Dominion Day parade at the 600 Block on 2nd Avenue, Prince Rupert on July 1st, 1914.

Crowd greeting the first train from Winnipeg at the G.T.P. wharf in Prince Rupert on April 9, 1914.

People standing in front of an arch on Dominion Day, Prince Rupert, 1909.

View of people walking along Centre street ion July 1st, 1909.

3rd Avenue in Prince Rupert, B.C., 1909.