Watun River Cannery Townsite
Author/Photographer
Mrs. Van
Donor
Phillips/Dalzell
Datec 1920
MediumPrint
Dimensions16.8 × 21.7 cm (6 5/8 × 8 9/16 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Object numberPh 02307
DescriptionBlack and white photo of the Watun River Cannery around 1920. This was the townsite ssociated with the Wallace Fisheries Cannery. It ran every 2nd year until 1928 when it was bought by B.C. Packers. It was abandoned in 1930 for larger cannery in Shannon Bay. Many buildings & equipment came from Naden Harbour. Large two-storey building was cookhouse-later moved to Masset as a store for Kirmis & Lindner. Multiple buildings across the river housed the Haida. Large white building on left house Chinese workers.On View
Not on view
Falk, Clarence
Lutes, Del
1940- 1950
c. 1930