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Title: Extension and Research Activities

1. Draw and colour pictures of an adult sockeye salmon and a spawning male sockeye.

2. Show in a diagram the life cycle of the sockeye salmon.

3. Explain the methods used by First Nations peoples to catch, preserve, and prepare sockeye for eating.

4. Find and reproduce an image of a sockeye salmon painted or carved by a First Nations artist.

5. Compare and contrast gill net fishing methods in the 1930s and today.

6. Make a time line showing the development of organized labour unions for fishers.

7. Research the history of the Japanese fishers in Steveston, BC

8. Read The Salmon People by Roderick Haig-Brown.

9. Visit the Royal British Columbia Museum to see the natural history exhibit on salmon.


Interior of Gutshead of McTavish Cannery, River Inlet 1922
Photo: BCARS


Gillnetting
Gill Nets
Sockeye Salmon
Song: Song of the Sockeye
Learning Activities
Extension and Research Activities
Resource List


South Asians Unloading Salmon, McTavish Cannery, Rivers Inlet 1920
Photo: BCARS


Fishermen setting out from Mc Tavish Cannery, Rivers Inlet.
Photo: BCARS


Salmon Cans for Lacquer, McTavish Cannery, Rivers Inlet 1930
Photo: BCARS

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