List of canneries in British Columbia
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- Fort LangleyFort Langley, British ColumbiaFort Langley is a village with a population of 2,700 and forms part of the Township of Langley. It is the home of Fort Langley National Historic Site, a former fur trade post of the Hudson's Bay Company.-History:...
- Gulf of Georgia CanneryGulf of Georgia CanneryThe Gulf of Georgia Cannery is a National Historic Site of Canada located in Steveston village in Richmond, British Columbia.Built in 1894, the Cannery echoes the days when it was the leading producer of canned salmon in British Columbia...
(StevestonSteveston, British ColumbiaSteveston was originally a small town near Vancouver, British Columbia, but has since been absorbed into the city of Richmond, British Columbia....
) - Alert BayAlert Bay, British ColumbiaAlert Bay is a village on Cormorant Island, British Columbia, Canada. According to the 2006 census, 556 people live within the village.-Population:Slightly more than half of the village's 556 residents are First Nations people...
- Alexandra aka Alexander (Skeena RiverSkeena RiverThe Skeena River is the second longest river entirely within British Columbia, Canada . The Skeena is an important transportation artery, particularly for the Tsimshian and the Gitxsan - whose names mean "inside the Skeena River" and "people of the Skeena River" respectively, and also during the...
) - BalmoralBalmoral, British ColumbiaBalmoral is an unincorporated settlement in the Shuswap Country region of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, located to the south of Blind Bay on Shuswap Lake....
(Skeena RiverSkeena RiverThe Skeena River is the second longest river entirely within British Columbia, Canada . The Skeena is an important transportation artery, particularly for the Tsimshian and the Gitxsan - whose names mean "inside the Skeena River" and "people of the Skeena River" respectively, and also during the...
) - Carlisle (Skeena RiverSkeena RiverThe Skeena River is the second longest river entirely within British Columbia, Canada . The Skeena is an important transportation artery, particularly for the Tsimshian and the Gitxsan - whose names mean "inside the Skeena River" and "people of the Skeena River" respectively, and also during the...
) - Claxton (Skeena RiverSkeena RiverThe Skeena River is the second longest river entirely within British Columbia, Canada . The Skeena is an important transportation artery, particularly for the Tsimshian and the Gitxsan - whose names mean "inside the Skeena River" and "people of the Skeena River" respectively, and also during the...
) - KingcomeKingcome, British ColumbiaKingcome is an unincorporated settlement in the Kingcome Inlet area of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located a few miles up the Kingcome River from the head of the inlet. It is the home of one of the four tribes of the Dzawada’enuxw subgroup of the Kwakwaka'wakw and was in the...
- TallheoTallheo, British ColumbiaTallheo is a First Nations community of the Nuxálk people and former cannery town near Bella Coola, British Columbia, Canada, on North Bentinck Arm...
- NamuNamu, British ColumbiaNamu is a small fishing port, former cannery town and First Nations community on the coast of British Columbia, Canada. It is located about southwest of Bella Coola or SSE of Bella Bella, on the mainland shore of the Inside Passage ferry route directly opposite Hunter Island, and just south of...
- Port Simpson
- Waglisla
- Seaside ParkSeaside Park, British ColumbiaSeaside Park, aka Seaside, was a cannery town on the South Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located near Langdale and Port Mellon on the west, mainland side of Thornbrough Channel, a side-channel of Howe Sound separating Gambier Island from the mainland Sunshine Coast. Another cannery town nearby...
, aka Seaside - LongviewLongview, British ColumbiaLongview was a cannery town on the South Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located near Langdale and Port Mellon on the west, mainland side of Thornbrough Channel, a side-channel of Howe Sound separating Gambier Island from the mainland Sunshine Coast. Another cannery town on the same bit of coast...
- Port EssingtonPort Essington, British ColumbiaPort Essington was a cannery town on the south bank of the Skeena River estuary in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, between Prince Rupert and Terrace, and at the confluence of the Skeena and Ecstall Rivers. It was founded in 1871 by Robert Cunningham and Thomas Hankin and was for a time...
(aka Essington, Skeena RiverSkeena RiverThe Skeena River is the second longest river entirely within British Columbia, Canada . The Skeena is an important transportation artery, particularly for the Tsimshian and the Gitxsan - whose names mean "inside the Skeena River" and "people of the Skeena River" respectively, and also during the...
) - Vancouver BayVancouver Bay, British ColumbiaVancouver Bay was a cannery town on the South Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located northwest of Stuart Island on the west side of Prince of Wales Reach of lower Jervis Inlet, at the bay of the same name, which is the mouth of the Vancouver River....
- St. Vincent BaySt. Vincent Bay, British ColumbiaSt. Vincent Bay was a cannery town on the South Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located on on the northwest bank of Jervis Inlet near Hotham Sound, and just northeast of the Saltery Bay ferry terminal on the upper Sunshine Coast, and opposite the mouth of Sechelt Inlet.-References:**...
- Bliss LandingBliss Landing, British ColumbiaBliss Landing, formerly Bishop Landing or Bishops Landing, was a cannery town on the South Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located on the northwest side of the Malaspina Peninsula on the upper Sunshine Coast, north of the town of Lund and across the mouth of Desolation Sound from Cortes Bay and...
- RoyRoy, British ColumbiaRoy was a cannery town on the South Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located on Loughborough Inlet north of the town of Campbell River and the Discovery Islands....
- Shoal BayShoal Bay, British ColumbiaShoal Bay was a cannery town in the Discovery Islands region of the South Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located on the northeast side of East Thurlow Island, at the bay of the same name....
- Toba Inlet
- Forward HarbourForward Harbour, British ColumbiaForward Harbour was a cannery town in the Johnstone Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located on the inlet of the same name, which is on the mainland side of Wellbore Channel, to the east of Hardwicke Island...
- ButedaleButedale, British ColumbiaButedale is a ghost town that was founded on Princess Royal Island, British Columbia in 1918 as a fishing, mining and logging camp. Initially the salmon cannery was established by Western Packers which was purchased and operated by the Canadian Fishing Company until it ceased operating in the 1950s...
- Port EssingtonPort Essington, British ColumbiaPort Essington was a cannery town on the south bank of the Skeena River estuary in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, between Prince Rupert and Terrace, and at the confluence of the Skeena and Ecstall Rivers. It was founded in 1871 by Robert Cunningham and Thomas Hankin and was for a time...
- BoswellBoswell, British Columbia (Central Coast)Boswell was a cannery town in the Central Coast region of the South Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located on the north side of Boswell Inlet, an arm of Smith Sound....
- Wales Island Cannery (Pearse Canal)
- Redonda BayRedonda Bay, British ColumbiaRedonda Bay is an uninhabited locality that was the site of a cannery owned by Francis Millerd & Co., located on the northwest side of West Redonda Island in the Discovery Islands of the South Coast of British Columbia, Canada.-References:**...
- Glendale CoveGlendale Cove, British ColumbiaGlendale Cove is an uninhabited locality that was the site of a cannery owned by Francis Millerd & Co., located on the south side of Knight Inlet in the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada. The cannery was located on the east side of the cove. Somewhere in the vicinity was a village of the...
- Porcher Island Cannery (Skeena River)
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- Mission, British ColumbiaMission, British ColumbiaMission, the core of which was formerly known as Mission City, is a district municipality in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It is situated on the north bank of the Fraser River overlooking the City of Abbotsford and with that city is part of the Central Fraser Valley. Mission is the...
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