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Naden Harbour Cannery | Wallace Fisheries

Cannery buildings in the distance at low tide.

Cannery at Naden Harbour. Prince Rupert City & Regional Archives, J.D. Allen photo, P991-69-6093

1911-1919

53°59’56.4″N 132°34’55.7″W

  • Built in 1911 at Naden Harbour by Wallace Fisheries
  • Granted a canning license on the condition that only fishers of European descent be employed, to bring European setters to the region
  • Plant dismantled and moved to Watun River in 1919 to be closer to the pink salmon fishing grounds
  • Eugene Simpson and Hume Babington built a crab cannery on this site in 1919