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Somerville Cannery

Scale drawing of cannery buildings.

Complete fire plan for the Somerville Cannery complex from 1923, with buildings and watersources identified. Cannery housing wraps all the way around to the other side of the bay. Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society Archives G2009.016 Plan 39.

1918-1924

54°59’07.4″N 129°41’02.4″W

  • Built in 1918 by the BC Fishing & Packing Co.
  • Land leased on the site of the former Douglas Cannery on the Portland Inlet on the Nass River
  • Francis Millerd leased the plant in 1923
  • Closed in 1924
  • Site was purchased by Wallace Fisheries in 1926, and taken over by British Columbia Packers Ltd. the same year but never reopened