INTRODUCTION 



Cape Ommaney, sixty miles away ; the Tyee Company 

 was later re-formed as the United States Whaling 

 Company. 



In 1910 the Pacific Whaling Company was sold 

 to the Canadian North Pacific Fisheries, Ltd., with 

 stations at Rose and Naden Harbor, Queen Char- 

 lotte Islands, and Bay City, Washington, besides the 

 two Vancouver factories. ' Another establishment, 

 known as the Alaska Whaling Company, started work 

 at Unimak Pass, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and a Nor- 

 wegian firm built a station on the Pacific coast of 

 Mexico. 



About the time Newfoundland became interested in 

 shore whaling, the Russians and Japanese started op- 

 erations along the coasts of Siberia and Japan, re- 

 spectively. The Russian industry there was abruptly 

 ended at the time of the Russian-Japanese \var and 

 has not since been resumed, but the Japanese have 

 continued their work with great success and today 

 vie with the Norwegians in the development of shore 

 whaling, for by their methods almost every particle 

 of a whale's carcass is utilized for human consump- 

 tion. 



The Toyo Hogei Kabushiki Kaisha, of Osaka, is 

 the largest whaling company in the world, owning fif- 

 teen stations and twice as many ships, and conducting 

 operations in almost every part of the Japanese Em- 

 pire. 



The South African industry was founded by Mr. 

 John Bryde, of Sanclefjord, Norway, w r ho in 1909 

 erected the first station in Durban and another in the 



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