PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 7p! 
In 1913 the Great Northern cannery was leased for the season to the 
English Fisheries (Litd.), while in the following year the Gosse- 
Millerd Packing Co. bought the Vancouver and Fraser canneries 
from the receiver of the Canadian Canning Co. The Jervis Inlet 
Canning Co. acquired the Lighthouse cannery the same year. 
The Scottish-Canadian cannery was acquired in 1915 by the 
Graham Co., while the Great Northern cannery was sold to th 
Defiance Packing Co. 
In 1916 a new cannery was built at Liverpool, South Westminster, 
by the Liverpool Canning Co. 
In 1917 the Gosse-Millerd Packing Co. purchased the Star cannery 
which had been lying idle since 1913; the Booth Fisheries Co. leased 
the Scottish-Canadian cannery for the season. ‘They held an option 
to purchase same, but did not exercise it, and the plant has since been 
closed down. The Cliff-Lowman Packing Co. acquired the Light- 
house cannery from the Jervis Inlet Canning Co. 
In 1918 the Canadian !‘ishing Co. built at Vancouver, and while 
their plant is not on the Fraser River it is classed in that area, as 
its pack will be largely secured from Fraser River fish. 
arly in the spring of 1919 fire destroyed the Star, Steveston, and 
Lighthouse canneries, none of which have been rebuilt. 
keena River.—The first cannery to be built on the Skeena River 
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 Pucking 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. In 
1899 the Claxton cannery was purchased by the Wallace Bros. 
Packing Co. The Peter Herman (afterwards the Skeena River Com- 
mercial 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 can- 
nery, which was built in 1906. 
The Carlisle cannery was sold in 1906 to the Kildala Packing Co. 
In 1911 the Wallace Fisheries (Litd.) purchased the Claxton can- 
nery from the Wallace Bros. Packing Co., while in 1913 the Canadian 
Fish & Cold Storage Co. built a cannery at Tucks Inlet, where their 
supply of salinon is obtained from the Skeena fishermen. 
n 1916 the Gosse-Millerd Packing Co. built their Sunnyside plant. 
In 1918 the Northern British Columbia Fisheries (Ltd.) purchased 
the Skeena River Commercial Co.’s plant at Port Essington, and also 
erected a new cannery at Port Edward. 
Rwers Inlet.—The first cannery to be built and operated on Rivers 
Inlet was in 1881 by Shotbolt & Draney, afterwards the British 
