 In response to this minor crisis, the HBC refitted the "Caledonia", and she ran an emergency trip up the Skeena with the much desired supplies.Bonser then moved on to the upper Fraser River in 1909, where he piloted two sternwheelers before returning to the Skeena in 1911.The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway’s western terminus was at Prince Rupert, and rail construction began from there in 1908.