Stork Rock


Stork Rock (54˚25'29" 130˚18'00" Head of Tuck Inlet, just N of Prince Rupert). Named after Alfred Stork (1871–1945), from Bolton, Ont, a Prince Rupert hardware dealer and the city’s first mayor, elected in 1910. Before coming to the N coast in 1908 he had lived at Fernie, where he also served as mayor (in 1904). Stork was an active figure in the city’s social circles and also CO of its first military organization, the Earl Grey’s Own Rifles. He served as Liberal MP for the Skeena,...

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