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trading post where the mission is now located. Dm-ing this same 

 period, parties of Tsimshian and Tlingit from southeastern Alaska 

 came to hunt seals in Yakutat Bay and sea otters in Icy Bay. The 

 mission was established in 1888, the "Old Village" at Yakutat was 

 founded shortly afterward, and the cannery was built in 1904. 



