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Tallheo Cannery | Nieumiamus

Docks and net racks at the Tallheo Cannery.

Tallheo Cannery dock, c. 1930s, Image CVA 374-220 Courtesy of the City of Vancouver Archives.

1917-1948

52°23’23.4″N 126°50’05.0″W

  • Established in Burke Channel in 1917 as the Nieumiamus Cannery by Bella Coola entrepreneur B.F. Jacobsen
  • Ownership transferred to Northern B.C. Fisheries soon after, renamed Tallheo
  • Property was sold to the Canadian Fishing Co. in 1925
  • Operated as a cannery until 1948 and was used as a gillnet camp after 1951
  • Was sold in the 1980s to a resident of Bella Coola and is now the Tallheo Cannery Guest House