Cassiar Cannery Courtesy Wrathall Photo and Prince Rupert City and Regional Archives
The Cassiar Cannery, sometimes referred to Caspaco (Cassiar Packing Company) was built in 1903 and had a salmon pack that year. Like most canneries on the Skeena, it was built on pilings out over the water. This allowed the tide to carry away fish offal. Later on the offal was processed into oil and feed.
Eventually it boasted two canning lines and a Smith Butchering Machine, a fish knife, filling machine, two exhaust boxes and a lacquer machine. There were three cooking retorts of steel construction, steam heated to 10 lbs.
Alternate Names
Location
Year Built
Best pack
Last Season
Caspaco
North side of Inverness Passage
1903
1960s, 126,000 cases
1983
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Cassiar Cannery Courtesy Phylis Bowman
Cassiar Cannery Courtesy Wrathall Photo and Prince Rupert City and Regional Archives
Cassiar Cannery Courtesy J D Allen Photo and Prince Rupert City and Regional Archives
Cassiar Cannery fishing boats leaving the cannery for a day of fishing. Courtesy McRae Bros and Prince Rupert City and Regional Archives
Cassiar Cannery Courtesy Wrathall Photos and Prince Rupert City and Regional Archives
Cassiar Cannery working on the water line Courtesy J D Allen Photo and Prince Rupert City and Regional Archives
Cassiar Cannery Courtesy Mitchell Family Fonds and Prince Rupert City and Regional Archives
Cassiar Cannery Courtesy BC Archives
Cassiar Cannery Courtesy G Gary Runka and Northern BC Archives, UNBC
Cassiar Cannery Courtesy G Gary Runka and Northern BC Archives, UNBC
Sources:
Blyth, Gladys Young, Salmon Canneries British Columbia North Coast, 1991
