74 PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 
Rwers Inlet.—The first cannery to be built and operated on Rivers 
Inlet was in 1881 by Shot, Bolt & Draney, afterwards the British 
Columbia Canning Co. The Wannuck cannery was built in 1884, 
the Good Hope in 1895, the Brunswick in 1896, the Wadhams and 
the Vancouver in 1897. 
There were no changes until 1902, when the British Columbia 
Packers Association acquired the Wadhams, Brunswick, Wannuck, 
and Vancouver, the two latter being dismantled and the two former 
enlarged correspondingly. 
In 1906 the Beaver cannery was built by J. H. Todd & Sons, the 
Kildalla cannery by the Kildalla Packing Co., and the Strathcona 
cannery by Bain & Wilson, the latter afterwards being acquired by 
the Wallace Fisheries (Ltd.). 
Nass River.—The first cannery to be built on the Nass 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 river for steamers to move the packs. 
In 1888 the plants were dismantled and removed to Nass 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 Kincolith Packing Co. In 1911 the Arrandale 
and Port Nelson canneries were bought by the Anglo British Colum- 
bia Packing Co., and in the following year the Nass Harbor cannery 
was bought by ne British Columbia Packers Association. 
Vancouver Island.—The first cannery to be built on Vancouver 
Island was the one on Clayoquot Sound, which was built in 1895 by 
the Clayoquot Sound Canning Co. The Abort Packing Co. cannery 
on Alberni Canal was first operated in 1903. In 1905 J. H. Todd & 
Sons built a cannery at Esquimault Harbor, as did also the Capital 
City Canning Co. the same year. 
Alert Bay.—The Alert Bay cannery of the Alert Bay Canning Co. 
was opened in 1881. 
SALMON FISHING IN THE HEADWATERS. 
Considerable salmon fishing is carried on in the headwaters of cer- 
tain of the larger rivers of the coast, of which no account appears in 
the data of the commercial fisheries. This is due to the fact that the 
fishing is usually of a desultory character, the fisheries are few in 
number and scattered widely, and while the catch in the aggregate is 
considerable it does not amount to much in any one spot. 
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