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Shushartie Cannery

Shushartie Cannery buildings photographed from a boat on the water. Two ropes, part of the rigging of a boat, are visible in the foreground. The cannery sits at the waters edge with a wooden hill behind it.

View of the Shushartie Cannery from on board a ship. Cannery workers often travelled to the canneries by steamship at the start of the summer season. Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society Archives G2010.027.045

1914-1928

50°51’44.6″N 127°52’19.1″W

  • Built in 1914 at Shusartie Bay on northeastern Vancouver Island by the Goletas Fish Co.
  • Purchased by Western Packers Ltd., then by the Canadian Fishing Co. in 1923
  • Closed in 1928 and the machinery was moved to the Bones Bay Cannery