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HIDDEN GARDEN WHERE’S THE BEEF? WALKING Sunken Gardens – A small two level Cow Bay – In 1908 THROUGH park has a short pebbled walkway farmers began FREE leading through a tunnel into an open unloading cows in TIME area surrounded by brick walls fronting the bay and it was floral gardens. It was the original site renamed Cow Bay. TOUR for the court house and the wall is the Today, there are old foundation. The tunnels leading to restaurants, coffee the gardens were used for ammunition shops and shopping, storage during World War ll. Today it an area filled with is maintained by the Garden Club. restored heritage MONDAY to FRIDAY buildings and lots of character. 10:30am and 1:30pm STORIES CARVED IN CEDAR LIFE ON THE SEA The First Nations of the Pacific North Coast are consid- ered to have some of the most sophis- ticated arts and material culture. Pacific Mariners Memorial Park is dedicated to those who lost their lives at sea. The park includes a memorial wall, a statue of a mariner at the helm of a vessel and a Shinto shrine. It was built for the Kazu Maru a Japanese ONE HOUR TOUR STARTS AT fishing boat Mariners Park Entrance found on our BESIDE THE MUSEUM coast. TSIMSHIAN TERRITORY OPENING UP THE NORTH NORTH COAST ART DECO The Museum of Northern BC was City Hall – The first stone was laid for founded in 1924 with 40 artifacts, mostly the present City Hall on April 20, 1938 from the First Nation culture. The and it was opened in June 1939. With Tsimshian First Nations people have north coast motifs by noted Tsimshian been living in this area for at least artist, William Jeffrey, the building 10,000 years and occupied more than 200 remains the city’s finest example of km of coastline. Although European the period’s art deco/modern style contact brought many changes for the Kwinitsa Station was built in 1911, one of architecture. Originally it was the people, the First Nations presence is still of 50 stations constructed by the Grand federal building and post office and strong through art, hosting of feasts and Trunk Pacific Railroad between 1911- became city hall in 1964. Peter Lester the carving of totem poles. 1915. It was barged down the Skeena was mayor from 1958-1993 and held River on July 1, 1985 and the station the record for being the longest became an railway museum on Prince serving mayor in Canada. Rupert’s waterfront. In 1914 the first train rolled into Prince Rupert, after 8 years of dealing with laying the track in the mountainous area and all the dynamiting that had to be done to level the terrain. THE EARLY PIONEERS THE MAN & HIS DREAM THE WAR YEARS Charles Melville Hays, who died on the Titanic, had dreams to have Prince Ru- pert become a competitive world-class port and a mecca for tourists. He envisioned a grand 450 room chateau-style hotel, to outclass Victoria’s Empress Hotel. Charles Courthouse – Excavations started in commissioned the 1914 but was postponed due to the beginning of WW1. After the war, a new well-known architect Pillsbury House was built for Grand Sir Frances Mawson government was elected and continued Trunk Pacific Railroad employees to live Rattenbury. His hotel construction but on a slightly different in. Joel Pillsbury, an employee of GTP was to connect to the location, forward about 35 feet. was made general manager of the new waterfront by a The cenotaph is a town, and the house was the first glassed-in walkway memorial to all who permanent residence built in Prince to protect visitors from have served Canada and Rupert. All four dormers on the house the wet climate. The plans for this hotel the thousands of American represent the directions of the compass. and Prince Rupert sank with the Titanic. soldiers that were sta- Rupert Square Mall now stands where the tioned in Prince Rupert. hotel was to be located. .