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Masset Cannery | Old Masset

Buildings line the beach facing the water.

The village of Masset on Haida Gwaii, three years before the cannery was built there. Image G-06004 courtesy of the Royal BC Museum and Archives

1927-1950

54°02’43.0″N 132°11’49.6″W

  • Built in 1927 on Graham Island in the Haidi Gwaii archipelago by Masset Canners Ltd.
  • Operated until it was sold to Nelson Brothers Fisheries in 1938
  • Nelson Brothers Fisheries leased the property to the Queen Charlotte Canners from 1940 – 1950