A town like Prince Rupert is just a litany of misery," Thorburn said. "Small and economically depressed towns have kids who are bored and don’t have the resources or the means to express themselves in a non-destructive, non-violent way. Thank God I had music and could sing about that kind of stuff and not have to actually partake in it."— Indie rocker Nick Thorburn, a former Rupert resident, who has composed a song based in part, on one of Prince Rupert’s most horrific murders…
His impressions of life on the North Coast aren’t fond, his thoughts those of someone who stepped away from a path that could have led to a very different result.
Nick Thorburn lived in Prince Rupert for six years, leaving town when he was thirteen back in 1995, shortly after the murder of Trgyve Magnusson, a visiting fisherman from Point Roberts, Washington who was brutally killed at age 34 in one of the darkest of moments for this city…
( from the blog a town called podunk, click on the link below to see the entire article atowncalledpodunk.blogspot.com/2 … 2026 )-