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North Pacific Historic Fishing Village

Rivers Inlet

Two north coast gillnet stations: Porcher Island Cannery on the Skeena River estuary and Wales Island Cannery, near the Nass River. These stations proliferated in the 1950s and 1960s, when most of the remote, smaller canneries on the coast were shut down and replaced by a few large plants at Prince Rupert, Vancouver and Steveston. Many of these former cannery sites were then converted to summer gillnet stations, offering provisions and gas, and net and boat repair services to the fishermen.Skeena River

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Canning Process

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Gulf of Georgia Cannery

PUBLICATIONS

Berg, Percy. Everlasting Memory; a Guide to North Pacific Cannery Village Museum. (BC): North Pacific Cannery Village Museum, c1995.

Blyth, Gladys. Salmon Canneries; British Columbia North Coast. Lantzville: Oolichan Books, c1991.

Bossin, Bob. Bossin’s West Coast (sound recording). Vancouver: Nick Records, c1986.

Canneries (videorecording), written and directed by Bonni Devlin and Stephen Insley. Vancouver: Moving Images Distribution, c1987.

Evans, Hubert. “Day of the Hand Troller.” Raincoast Chronicles, First Five. Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, ©1976, pp. 220 - 223.

Farley, A.L. “Resource Use.” Atlas of British Columbia: People environment, and resource use. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, ©1979, pp. 88-93.

Forester, Joseph E. and Anne D. Forester. Fishing; British Columbia’s Commercial Fishing History. Saanichton: Hancock House, ©1975.

Gauvin, Brian. Gone Fishing. Victoria: Sono Nis Press, ©1995.

Haig-Brown, Alan. Fishing for a Living. Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, ©1993.

Johnson, Thore. Rufus the Coho and Fisherman Poems. Regulus Fish Co. Ltd., ©1986.

Kafka, John, “Salmon People.” Horizon Canada. Quebec: Centre for the Study of  Teaching Canada, Inc., ©1987, pp. 1556 - 1560.

Knight, Rolf and Maya Koizumi. “Ryuichi Yoshida; an Issei Life.” Raincoast Chronicles Six/Ten. Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, ©1983, pp. 59- 67.

Lorenz, Claudia. Trademarks and Salmon Art; a Brand New Perspective. Vancouver: Gulf of Georgia Cannery, c2002.

Lyons, Cecily. Salmon: Our Heritage; the Story of a Province and an Industry. Vancouver: Mitchell Press, c1969.

McKervill, Hugh W. The Salmon People; the Story of the West Coast Salmon Industry. Sidney: Grey’s Publishing, c1967.

Meggs, Geoff and Duncan Stacey. Cork Lines and Canning Lines; the Glory Years of Fishing on the West Coast. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, ©1992.

Meggs, Geoff. Salmon: the Decline of the British Columbia Fishery. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, c1991.

Newell, Diane, ed. The Development of the Salmon-Canning Industry; a Grown Man’s Game. Montreal: Qeen’s-McGill University Press, c1999.

Peterson, Lester R. “Fishing Rivers Inlet by Sail and Oar.” Raincoast Chronicles, First Five. Madeira Park, Harbour Publishing, ©1976, pp. 226 - 235.

Reid, David J. The Development of the Fraser River Salmon Canning Industry, 1885-1913. Vancouver: Fisheries & Marine Service, cl973.

Skogin, Joan. Skeena, a River Remembered. Vancouver: Raincoast Book Distribution, c1983.

Sinclair, Bertrand W. “The Bank Trollers.” Raincoast Chronicles, First Five. Madeira Park: Harbour Publishers. ©1976.

Stacey, Duncan. Blondies and Hairpins: the Salmon Net Fishery of British Columbia. Vancouver: Vancouver Maritime Museum, c1982.

Stacey, Duncan. “In the Can.” Horizon Canada. Quebec: Centre for the Study of Teaching Canada Inc., ©1987, pp. 800 - 805.

Stacey, Duncan. Sockeye and Tinplate; Technological Change in the Fraser River Canning Industry 1871-1912. (Victoria): British Columbia Provincial Museum, c1982.

Stacey, Susan. Salmonopolis: the Steveston Story. Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, ©1994.

Steveston Recollected: a Japanese-Canadian History. Victoria: Provincial Archives of British Columbia, ©1975.

Thomas, Philip J. “Fishing for Salmon and Halibut.” Songs of the Pacific Northwest. Saanichton: Hancock House, ©1979, pp. 149 - 160.

Trower, Peter. “Skiffs, Gillnets and Poverty-Stocks.” Raincoast Chronicles, First Five. Madeira Park, Harbour Publishing, ©1976, pp. 210 - 214.

Ware, Reuben M. Five Issues, Five Battlegrounds: an Introduction to the Fishing Industry of British Columbia, 1850-1930. (BC): Coqualeetza Education Training Centre for the Sto:lo Nation, c1983.

Working the Tides; a Portrait of Canada’s West Coast Fishery. Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, ©1996.

Yesaki, Mitsuo and Sakuya Nishimura. Salmon Canning on the Fraser River in the 1890s. Coquitlam: Fraser Journal Publishing, c2000.