Top, from left to right: S.S. Ollalie unloads salmon at Lowe Inlet Cannery in 1913. Boats tied up at Sunnyside Cannery in 1920. Claxton Cannery circa 1890. Skeena River Commercial Cannery Company in Port Essington, BC. Claxton Cannery circa 1902. Standard Cannery during the early 1900s. Map illustrates the canneries that were located on the Northwest Coast between 1877 and 1983.

Salmon in the processing plant of a Skeena River cannery

Skeena River cannery loft

The BA Cannery in Port Essington

Mending nets at BA Cannery

Mending Nets at Skeena River Cannery

Nets are dipped in the barrels containing bluestone solution to make them invisible to fish

Mending nets at Skeena River Cannery

Lowe Inlet Cannery housing after it was abandoned

Boat repair at North Pacific Cannery, housing in the background

First Nations feast at Lowe Inlet Cannery

Port Essington, location of several Skeena River canneries