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Celtic Cannery | Welsh’s

Workers standing in front of a wooden boat shed preparing to bring a boat into a dry dock.

Workers pull a boat, with the name “Uchuck Vancouver BC” painted on the stern, into a dry dock near the Celtic Cannery, c. 1910. Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society Collection 1998.006.001/8

1897-1917

49°12’58.7″N 123°10’37.2″W

  • Built in 1897 by the Welsh Bros. on the North Arm of the Fraser River
  • Purchased by BC Packers Association in 1902
  • Canned each year until 1905 and every fourth year during the dominant sockeye salmon runs until 1917
  • Property became a shipyard in 1927