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16-511: Port Alice is a village of approximately 739 (2021 census) located on Neroutsos Inlet , southwest of Port McNeill , on Vancouver Island , originally built by Whalen Pulp and Paper Mills of Vancouver. The community is known for its natural environment, pulp mill, and salt water fishing. Historically, before 1750, the area was home to the Hoyalas, followed by the Koskimo people in the late 1800s. It

32-558: A long history of service to the British and Indian governments through trooping and other military contracts. In the last decade of its operational existence BI carried thousands of school children on educational cruises. Mantola was sunk in February 1917 by a torpedo from a German submarine off the coast of Ireland with a substantial cargo of silver bullion. The cargo ship Gairsoppa , carrying silver bullion , pig iron and tea, which

48-626: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . British India Steam Navigation Company British India Steam Navigation Company (" BI ") was formed in 1856 as the Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation Company . The Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation Company had been formed out of Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co, a trading partnership of the Scots William Mackinnon and Robert Mackenzie , to carry mail between Calcutta and Rangoon . It became British India SN Co in 1862. Under

64-437: The 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Port Alice had a population of 739 living in 415 of its 538 total private dwellings, a change of 11.3% from its 2016 population of 664. With a land area of 7.03 km (2.71 sq mi), it had a population density of 105.1/km (272.3/sq mi) in 2021. Neroutsos Inlet Its entrance is northeast of Drake Island, about 29 kilometres (18 mi) from

80-537: The Royal Horticultural Society's "Book of Registered Orchid Hybrids". This slipper-type flower is the result of crossing a complex hybrid Paphiopedilum "Western Sky" with a species Paphiopedilum appletonianum . Devil’s Bath, a flooded sinkhole near Port Alice, is an example of a cenote and is the largest in Canada at 359 meters in diameter and 44 meters in depth. There are a number of hiking destinations in

96-668: The area. They include Devil’s Bath, Eternal Fountain, Vanishing River & Reappearing River. These are a series of ancient karst and limestone formations. The access is through dirt roads. Port Alice has an oceanic climate ( Köppen Cfb ) and is one of the mildest and wettest places in Canada, receiving 3.4 metres (130 in) of actual rainfall per year and exceptionally little snow, which amounts to as much as 33 percent more rainfall than infamously wet Prince Rupert and only marginally less than Southeast Alaska ’s wettest cities of Ketchikan and Yakutat which each average around 3.8 metres (150 in) and receive much more snowfall. In

112-467: The company owned more than 500 ships and managed 150 more for other owners. At its height in 1922, BI had more than 160 ships in the fleet, many built on Clydeside , Scotland . The main shipping routes of the line were: Britain to India , Australia , Kenya , Tanganyika . The company ran services from India to Pakistan , Ceylon , Bay of Bengal , Singapore , Malaya , Java , Thailand , Japan , Persian Gulf , East Africa and South Africa . BI had

128-522: The decision to relocate the town site away from the mill in 1965. Landslides continued to occur in the area and at the new townsite in 1973, 1975, 1987, and 2010. In 1965, Port Alice became a district municipality and was incorporated as a village on January 1, 1971. Port Alice bears a resemblance to Port Annie, the fictional town described by Vancouver Island author Jack Hodgins in his novel The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne . The new orchid hybrid "Port Alice" has been officially listed at London England in

144-480: The eastern shore of the inlet is Port Alice in an area with steep slopes, which experiences heavy rainfall and periodic mud and rock slides. It experienced one of the severest marine pollution due to untreated waste from a sulfite pulp mill at Port Alice, which operated there since 1917. The inlet was named on 3 May 1927 after Captain Cyril Demetrius Neroutsos (1868–1954), known as "The Skipper", who

160-427: The entrance to Quatsino Sound. The inlet is 21 kilometres (13 mi) long in a southeasterly direction and varies in width from 550 metres (600 yd) to 1.6 kilometres (1 mi). Its shore are generally rugged and high, being backed by mountains from 610 to 910 metres (2,000 to 3,000 ft) high and terminating in low land at its head. Islands in the inlet are Lyons Islet, Frigon Islets, and Ketchen Island. On

176-472: The hand of Lord Inchcape , who had become chairman in 1913, the company became part of the P&;O group of companies in 1914 through a complex amalgamation , but continued with its own identity and organisation for another nearly 60 years until 1972, when it was entirely absorbed into P&O. P&O was eventually sold to Emirati logistics company DP World in 2006. As one of the largest shipowners of all time,

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192-720: The marine superintendent for the Frank Waterhouse Company during the Gold Rush . Joined the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company in 1901, as marine superintendent. Serving aboard S.S. Islander in Alaska waters when she struck an iceberg and sunk in 20 minutes, with great loss of life; Neroutsos was the only executive officer to survive. This article about a location on the Coast of British Columbia , Canada

208-546: Was manager of Canadian Pacific Railway Coastal Service at the time the feature was named. Neroutsos participated in the famed New Zealand to London clipper ship races around The Cape , and, with the Australian, South American and East Indies trade, sailed around the world four times before the age of 18. Was signed on with the British India Steam Navigation Company , and was working out of Seattle as

224-462: Was named after Alice Whalen, the founders' mother. The brothers Whalen began their construction of the mill at its present site in 1917, with first pulp produced in 1918. The mill at Swanson Bay , on the Inside Passage farther north, was also a Whalen operation. Due to heavy rainfall and the surrounding steep slopes, Port Alice experienced mud and rock slides in 1927 and 1935, which contributed to

240-530: Was sunk at great depth by the German submarine  U-101 in February 1941 some 300 nautical miles (560 km; 350 mi) southwest of Galway Bay , Ireland, carried the richest cargo of any sunken ship in world history. Some of the company's better known passenger ships included Rajula , Dunera , Scindia , Sirdhana , Leicestershire , Dwarka , Dumra , the sister ships Kampala and Karanja , and Kenya and Uganda , and Dara , which

256-485: Was sunk by a terrorist bomb in 1961. Nevasa of 1956 was the final passenger ship built for BI. Serving as a troopship until redundant in 1962, Nevasa was assigned new duties with the BI educational cruise ship flotilla until 1974, when she became uneconomic due a four fold increase in crude oil prices and was scrapped in 1975 having earlier been joined in this trade by the more economic Uganda . The highly popular Uganda

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