Balmoral Cannery
Balmoral Cannery was located on the Ecstall River opposite Port Essington, and built in 1883. It was a large cannery. In 1903 it boasted a boiler house, blacksmith shop, charcoal house, a large China house for two hundred men, a large Japanese house for seventy men, other Japanese houses each accommodating thirty-five men, fifty-seven Indigenous houses and six white men’s houses. It grew from a two-line cannery in 1906 to seven lines in 1923. It’s last canning season was 1933. In 1944, the property reverted to the Crown.
| Alternate Names | Location | Year Built | Best pack | Last Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nil | East side of Ecstall River, across from Port Essington | 1883 | 1919, 52,785 cases | 1933 |
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Sources:
Armstrong, Cliff Sternwheelers on the Skeena , 2001
Bennett, Norma V Pioneer Legacy: Chronicles of the Lower Skeena River, 2001
Blyth, Gladys Y, Salmon Canneries-British Columbia North Coast, 1991
O’Neill, Wiggs Steamboat Days on the Skeena River, 1963
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