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Strang 1921.
Prince Rupert, B.C.
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that there are no Haida War Canoes in evidence, the environment of these people explaining much of their involved traditions and unique customs. Saw a few gulls which followed the ship, chiefly Glaucous Winged and Short Billed, saw one rather shy flocks of Barau's Gulls, a dozen in the flock only two of which had black heads. Saw only one Bald Eagle, saw many Cormorants, a few Jaons, Red-throated chiefly, lots of Scoters, White-Winged and American, Phalacrocorax and Cassin Auklets, Marbled Murrelets and some ducks Golden Eyes, etc. and a few which Mr. Green said were Eiders. Saw two [illegible] gulls below the dam at Ocean Falls, a large pulp mill where we shipped to unload freight. Saw other Bald Eagles.
Prince Rupert. Weeks. May 25. Arrived at Prince Rupert about one o'clock, spent all afternoon getting our luggage checked thru, in a misty drizzling rain. Started up the Grand Trunk R.R. about three o'clock. It was a glorious trip along the river with huge pebbles towering on both sides. The bottomlands are covered with cottonwoods, alder, birch etc and the higher slopes with spruce, cedar, and hemlock. Saw American and White Winged Scoters (Clamaria Americana, and C. americana,) Golden Eye Duell, Eared Grebe, Raven, Cur (N.W.), Bald Eagle ('1) Lesser Yellow Legs (Totanus flavipes) (1) Spotted Sandpipers (Actitis macularius) (common) America Marsh-hens (in pairs) (Mergus americanus) White-cheeked