HAINES

city, southeastern Alaska, U.S. It lies on the Chilkoot Peninsula, just south of Skagway (the former gold rush centre at the head of the Lynn Canal), 90 miles (145 km) north-northwest of Juneau. The city (with Skagway) is the terminus of the Alaska Marine Highway (Inside Passage) and is linked by road with the Alaska Highway 160 miles (255 km) north. Located on the site of a Chilkat Indian village, it became a North West Trading Company post in 1878 and later was a gold rush supply centre, an outlet for the Porcupine mining district, and a frontier fort. After the establishment of a mission there in 1881, the community was named to honour Francina Electra Haines of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions. Haines has acquired a reputation as a Chilkat Indian cultural centre, known particularly for carving and weaving crafts and for ceremonial dances. Its economy, aside from crafts and tourism, depends on wood products and fisheries. Pop. (1990) 1,238.