Northern Adventure sailing cancelled due to severe weather

The wind storm arriving on the north coast at dinner time is resulting in Ferry cancellations by BC Ferries for Sunday evening.

The 11 pm sailing from Prince Rupert to Haida Gwaii has been cancelled, as has the sailing from Skidegate back to Rupert at 11 am on Monday morning.

Since further sailings are also weather dependent, customers are asked to contact BC Ferries at 1-888-BC FERRY (223-3779).

The Service Notice (provided below) posted to the BC Ferry website   outlined the details of the cancellations Update as of 4:00 PM.

 Please be advised that due to adverse weather conditions in the North Coast area, the following Northern Adventure scheduled sailings have been cancelled:


 11:00 PM Sunday October 31st departure from Prince Rupert


 11:00 AM Monday November 1st departure from Skidegate


 All reserved customers on the cancelled sailing will be accommodated on the next scheduled sailings which are:


 11:00 PM Monday November 1st from Prince Rupert - Weather dependent


 9:00 AM Tuesday November 2nd from Skidegate - Weather dependent


 As the two sailings noted above are dependent upon weather improvements, customers are requested to check the BC Ferries website for Service Notice updates at http://www.bcferries.com/ or to call toll free 1-888-BC FERRY (223-3779), after the 4:00 PM Environment Canada weather forecast is issued on Monday afternoon, for updated sailing information.

In an unrelated situation, Drive BC has advised that Highway 16 has been closed to traffic in both directions at 16 kilometres east of Terrace due to what is described as a Traffic incident,