Prince Rupert

Fishing port at the mouth of the Skeena River in British Columbia, Canada, on Kaien Island, on the west side of Tsimpsean peninsula; population (2006) 12,100. Situated on one of the world's largest ice-free deepwater harbours, at the western terminus of the Canadian National Railway, it is a distribution centre for halibut, minerals, lumber and grain, and a major ferry point for Alaska, Vancouver, and the Queen Charlotte Islands. Fish-processing and canning is the principal industry.

The port was founded in 1906 by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, on a former Hudson's Bay Company site, and was intended to rival Vancouver.

The Museum of Northern British Columbia is situated here, and contains extensive displays concerning the history and culture of the local Native Canadian Tsimshian people.