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Arrandale Cannery

Scale drawing of cannery buildings. The words "Arrandale Cannery- Naas River B.C.- Surveyed 21st August 1923 Plan Dept. British Columbia Fire Underwriters Assoc." appear at the bottom of the page.

Fire plan drawing for the Arrandale Cannery complex from 1923, with buildings and water sources identified. Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society Archives G2009.016 Plan 36.

1904-1942

54°58’34.1″N 130°00’26.0″W

  • Built in 1904 on the Nass River by John Wallace
  • Purchased by the Anglo-British Columbia Packing Co. in 1911
  • Primarily employed Nisga’a people from villages on the Nass River
  • Canning line closed in 1942 and site was then used as a camp for North Pacific Cannery
  • Buildings were abandoned in the late 1950s