PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 3 
Like the other canning sections, British Columbia suffered in 1901 
from an oversupply of canned salmon, due to the large number of 
plants which had been erected and which were producing more 
salmon than market could be found for. At this juncture the British 
Columbia Packers Association was formed. It embraced 29 out of the 
48 plants on the Fraser River and 12 of those situated in Northern 
British Columbia waters, including the following plants: Ewen & Co., | 
Delta, Harlock, Wellington, Lulu Island, Terra Nova, Pacific Coast, 
Canadian Pacific, Short & Squair (Imperial cannery), Brunswick can- 
neries at Steveston and Canoe Pass, Dinsmore Island, Sea Island, 
Fishermen’s Packing Co., Reliance Cannery, Atlas Cannery, Boutiliar 
& Co., Hume & Co., Anglo-American, Provincial, Westham Island, 
_ Westminster Packing Co., Premier, Cleve, Welsh Bros., Currie, McWil- 
liams & Fowler, Colonial, Greenwood, Wurzburg & Co., and the Acme 
Canning Co. In 1914 the corporation style was changed to the British 
Columbia Fishing & Packing Co., Ltd. 
In 1905 the Burrard Canning Co., Steveston Canning Co., Butimar 
& Dawson, Unique Cannery, and the Vancouver Fish & Canning Co. 
were all built and operated. The latter was burned in the middle of 
the season. The following year the Great West Packing Co. cannery 
was built at Steveston; the Nye Canning Co. operated for part of the 
season on False Creek in Vancouver, and the Capital City Canning Co. 
built a plant at Victoria. 
Skeena River.—The first cannery to be built on the Skeena ie 
was in 1877, when a man named Neill built one at Inverness. In 
1878 the Windsor Canning Co., consisting of Henry Saunders, W. H. 
Dempster, and John Wilson, of Victoria, established a cannery at 
_ Aberdeen. - 
There were no additions until in 1883, when the Balmoral cannery, 
the British-American, and Robert Cunningham canneries were started. 
In 1889 the North Pacific was started and in 1890 the Standard. 
In 1891 the Anglo British Columbia Packing Co. bought the British- 
American cannery and the North Pacific Canning Co. cannery. In 
1892 the Claxton, and in 1895 the Carlisle, canneries were built. The 
Peter Herman (afterwards the Skeena River Commercial Co.) and 
Turnbull canneries were built in 1900. The last named operated 
only four seasons. 
In 1902 the British Columbia Packers Association acquired the 
Balmoral, Cunningham, and Standard canneries. 
In 1903 the Cassiar cannery was built. The next year the Alex- 
andria Packing Co. was started. It was later acquired by the British 
Columbia Packers Association, as was also the Dominion cannery, 
which was built in 1906. 
There have been no additions to the canneries on this river since 
1906. 
