Fort Rupert Native Village & Port Hardy Museum

Not far from the Port Hardy airport a chimney stack is now all that remains of the Hudson's Bay Company's old fort, erected in 1849 to serve as an Indian trading post as well as a base for workers at the Beaver Harbour colliery. It was destroyed by fire in 1890. In 1912 the Indians of the Kwakiutl village at Beaver Harbour were the subject of an early documentary film "In the Land of the Canoes" (of which there are showings at the Provincial Museum in Victoria). The Port Hardy Museum has exhibitions devoted to the history of the region as well as an excellent collection of Kwakiutl artifacts. Nature trails.