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Prince Rupert, British Columbia

It’s beautiful here in Prince Rupert. The sun is shining and I’ve seen the tops of mountains that I have never seen on my previous visits here. We’re on our way to Terrace to do the second of three consultation meetings I am doing on a federal government Aboriginal economic development program. This trip will take my colleague Veronica and I across Highway 16, which runs from Rupert here on the coast to Prince George. That’s where I’ll leave the highway, but the road continues all the way to Winnipeg as the Yellowhead highway, named for a Iroquois trader nicknamed Tete Jaune who made his way across this route in the 19th century.

We’re about to drive through the Coast Mountains up the Skeena River to Terrace. It should be a breathtaking ride. For more on our route today check here.