Summer Scene at Northern b. C. Cannery. Cannery on Skeena River, Port Essington, B.C., operated by the Anglo-British Columbia Packing Co., Ltd. (H. Bell Irving and Co., Vancouver, Agents). One of the oldest canneries in Northern British Columbia, built in 1882 by the well-known salmon canner, Gus Holmes, of Astoria. This company is also largely interested in the Fidalgo Island Packing Co. of Anacortes, Wash., and Ketchikan, Alaska

• Format: Still Image
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• Subjects: Commercial Fisheries; Canneries > British Columbia; Port Essington (British Columbia); Anglo-British Columbia Packing Co.; Ltd. (Port Essington; British Columbia); British Columbia; Canada; Port Essington; Skeena; Skeena River; Ketchikan; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/fishimages/id/47595