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Dawson & Buttimer built at Alberni Canal in 1903. They sold 
out to the Wallace Fisheries (Ltd.) in 1911, and the latter have 
operated steadily ever since. 
Pideock Bros. built a small cannery at Quathiaski Cove in 1904. 
They operated it that and the following year and then sold to T. E. 
Atkins in 1907. This plant was destroyed by fire in 1909, and the 
following year the Quathiaski Canning Co. built a new plant, which 
has operated steadily since. 
A small cannery was built at Pender Harbor in 1906 by P. H. 
Alder. It operated for two seasons and was then closed down and 
dismantled. 
J. H. Todd & Sons and the Capital City Canning Co. both built at 
Victoria in 1905 (the former at Esquimalt). Messrs. Todd & Son 
still operate, but the Capital City Canning Co. plant was closed and 
dismantled in 1914. 
Capt. R. E. Gosse built at Knight Inlet in 1907 at Sargeants 
Passage, but moved the plant to Glendale Cove in 1910, and at the 
close of that season sold the cannery to the Anglo British Columbia 
Packing Co., who have since operated it. 
The Wallace Fisheries (Ltd.) built a cannery at Quatsino Sound 
in 1911, but dismantled it in 1914. 
The Goletas Fish Co. built at Shushartis Bay in 1914, and after 
operating for three seasons sold the plant in 1917 to the Western 
Packers (Ltd.), the present owners. 
The Gilford Fish Co. built a cannery at Kingcombe Inlet in 1914. 
After operating it that season they sold to the Preston Packing Co., 
the present owners. 
The Jervis Inlet Canning Co. built a cannery at Jervis Inlet in 1912, 
operating it that and the following season. In the fall of 1913 it 
was destroyed by fire. In 1917 the C. L. Packing Co. erected a new 
plant at Green Bay, Jervis Inlet. 
The Nanaimo Canning Co. started at Nanaimo in 1913 and operated 
until 1916, in which year the plant was acquired by the Nanaimo 
Canners & Packers (Ltd.). 
The Quathiaski Canning Co. was built at Blind Cove in 1916; the 
Gulf Island Fish Co., at Lasqueti Island, in 1916; and the Sidney 
Canning Co., at Sidney, in 1916. 
The Redonda Island Canning & Cold Storage Co. built a cannery 
at Redonda Island in 1917, while the Lummi Bay Packing Co. built 
a cannery at Nitnat in 1917. 
In 1918 the Defiance Packing Co. built a cannery at Port Renfrew, 
while in 1919 the Gosse-Millerd Packing Co. built one at San Mateo. 
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. 
The Columbia River is a typical example of such a stream. Com- 
mercial fishing is usually considered as ending at Celilo, about 150 
miles from the mouth. As a matter of fact, salmon fishing for market 
