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In 1911 the Strathcona Packing Co.'s plant was purchased by- 

 Wallace Fisheries (Ltd.). In 1917 the Provincial Canning Co. built 

 a plant, and in 1918 the McTavish Canning Co. also built one. 



N^aas Rirer. — The first cannery to be built on the Naas River was 

 by Henry Croasdale in 1881, and it operated for four years. The 

 Douglas Packing Co. built a cannery here in 1882 and operated it for 

 two years. Both were then shut down owing to the fact that the 

 locations were too far up the i-iver for steamers to move the packs. 

 In 1888 the plants were dismantled and removed to Naas Harbor and 

 Mill Bay, respectively. In 1889 the Cascade Packing Co. commenced 

 operations, but the plant was dismantled in 1893. 



In 1903 the Pacific Northern cannery was built near the mouth of 

 Observatory Inlet, and in 1905 it was purchased by John Wallace, 

 who moved it to Arrandale. In the latter year the Port Nelson 

 Canning & Salting Co. started. In 1908 the Mill Bay cannery was 

 purchased by the Kincohth Packing Co. In 1911 the Arrandale and 

 Port Nelson canneries were bought by the Anglo-British Columbia 

 Packing Co., and in the following year the Naas Harbor cannery was 

 bought by the British Columbia Packers Association. 



The Wales Island cannery, which became Canadian property under 

 the Alaska boundary award, was in 1911 purchased by M. Desbrisay 

 & Co., by whom it has since been continuously operated. 



In 1916 the Kincolith Packing Co.'s Mill Bay plant was purchased 

 by the Kincolith Fisheries (Ltd.), while in 1918 the Northern British 

 Columbia Fisheries (Ltd.) purchased the Mill Bay cannery from the 

 Kincolith Fisheries (Ltd.) and built a new plant at Kumeon. The 

 W^estern Salmon Packing Co. also built a new plant at Summerville 

 the same year. 



Queen Charlotte Islands. — In 1912 the British Columbia Fisheries 

 (Ltd.), a concern promoted by Sir George Doughty, M. P., of Grimsby, 

 England, built a cannery at Aliford Bay, Skidegate Inlet, and operated 

 same for two seasons. The British Columbia Fisheries (Ltd.) then 

 went into insolvency, and the plant remained idle until 1916, when 

 it operated under lease to the Western Salmon Packing Co. In 1917 

 the cannery was purchased by the Maritime Fisheries (Ltd.), the 

 present owners. 



The Wallace Fisheries (Ltd.) built at Naden Harbor in 1912, and 

 operated that and the following seasons. The cannery was not in 

 commission during 1914 or 1915, but ran in the years 1916 to 1918, 

 inclusive. It was found that Masset Inlet would be a more suitable 

 location, and in 1919 the plant removed from Naden Harbor to a new 

 site on the shores of the inlet. 



A cannery was built at Lockeport in 1918 by the Lockeport Can- 

 ning Co. The same year the Western Salmon Packing Co. (Ltd.) 

 built a plant at Lagoon Bay. 



Miscellaneous places. — A cannery was built at Metlakatla in 1882 

 by Rev. John Duncan for the Metlakatla Indians, fish being obtained 

 from Skeena River. The plant was dismantled in 1886. 



John Rood built the first cannery on Smiths Inlet, in Quachela 

 Lagoon, in 1883. It was closed in 1884, and the plant moved to 

 Wannuck, Rivers Inlet, to which place also the Smiths Inlet fish were 

 subsequently transported for packing purposes. In 1902 the Wm. 

 Hickey Canning Co. built a new plant on Smiths Inlet, selling same 

 in 1912 to the Wallace Fisheries (Ltd.). The Western Packers (Ltd.) 

 also built at Marguerite Bay in 1917, 



