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Pacofi Cannery

Cannery complex viewed from the water with a treed hill and low clouds in the background

The Pacofi Cannery complex in 1940, three years before it was destroyed by fire. Image NA-07669 courtesy of the Royal BC Museum and Archives

1938-1943

52°50’43.4″N 131°51’58.1″W

  • Built on Moresby Island in the Haida Gwaii archipelago in 1910 as a reduction plant, cold storage and ice plant
  • Built by Constantin Alvo von Alvensleben & Associates of Germany, operating as Pacific Coast Fisheries
  • A canning line was added in 1938 after the plant was purchased by BC Packers Ltd.
  • Plans to use original buildings as a submarine base were revealed during construction in 1938
  • Plant was destroyed by fire in 1943