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of getting New Brunswick fish to market i ice, increased their value in 

 New Brunswick, rendering packing in that province unprofitable. In 

 a letter-book of 1844, belonging to Mr. Underwood, is a letter addressed 

 to the Eastport firm of Treat, Noble and Co., finding some fault with 

 their prices and asking their figures for salmon, and saying that some 

 parties who were packing in Newfoundland were offering it at less price 

 than the Eastport people had been giving. So there must have been 

 salmon packing going on in Newfoundland in 1844, but the names of the 

 parties is not accessible. The process employed was the "water bath," 

 heated by fires. The cans were bathed about two hours, then opened for 

 the escape of steam, closed again and again bathed about the same length 

 of time this for lib. cans. The larger cans were given a longer time in 

 processing. 



In the Province of British Columbia the first canning of salmon 

 was attempted in 1861 by Capt. Stamp at Alberni. It was on a small 

 and very primitive scale. In 1870, Messrs. J. S. Deas and Co., under the 

 agency of Messrs. Eindlay, Durham and Brodie started to pack on the 

 Eraser. This firm was followed shortly thereafter by Messrs. Alex. 

 Ewen and Co., and others. 



NOTE IV. 

 SOME NOTES ON THE MIXES OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. 



THE following brief summary of the mineral resources of Britain's Pacific- 

 province may, perhaps, have interest for some. 



There are three mining regions which by name are now familiar to 

 everybody ; they are the Klondike, the Caribou, and the Kootenay camps. 

 To take them in the above sequence, it must be at once said that the 

 Klondike River itself is not in British Columbia, but in that vast western 

 extension of the North-west Territory of Canada, a realm so huge that its 

 eastern boundaries march with those of Manitoba almost in the centre of 

 the broad continent of North America, while on the other side the Pacific 

 bounds it. So suddenly has this remote tributary of the Yukon burst upon 

 the world, that the Canadian Government has not had time to sub-divide, 



