History
A Nisga'a, who lived around the Nass River, called the head of Portland Canal "Skam-A-Kounst," meaning safe place, probably because it served them as a retreat from the harassment of the Haidas on the coast. It travelled in the area seasonally to pick berries & hunt birds.

A vicinity about a Portland Canal was explored within 1896 by Captain D.D. Gaillard of the United States Army Corps of Engineers (after whom a Gillard Cut in the Portland Canal was late known as). Both years when Gillard's visit, a 1st prospectors & settlers arrived. Among the babies was 500. J. Raine, for whom the creek & the mountain in the area come known as. A Stewart brothers arrived inside 1902. Within 1905, Robert M. Stewart, a number 1 postmaster, known as a town Stewart.

Gold and silver mining dominated the early economy. Nearby Hyder, Alaska boomed with a discovery of rich silver veins within the upper Salmon Flow of any stream basin in 1917 & 1918. Hyder became an access & supply point for a mines, when Stewart served when the center for American mining activity. Mining ceased around 1956, by having a exception of Granduc Copper Mine, which operated until 1984.

Stewart experienced the people of astir 10,000 before World War I, which then declined to astir 700 within 2000.

Stewart is accessible by main road from either a British Columbia main road patterns.

Climate
Stewart hwhen the coastal rain forest climate, by using astir C cm (Forty inches) by the season of precipitation, great deal of it as snow.