The community was the site of an important salmon cannery founded in the 1870s.

More than 50 salmon canneries used to dot the Columbia River.

He later went to Alaska to work in the salmon canneries there.

He earned money to pay for his tuition by working at an Alaskan salmon cannery.

By the summer of 1941 Pelican had another salmon cannery.

There are salmon canneries and old sawmills (no longer being.

En route we spent an hour or two at a salmon cannery near Campbell River.

Boraas has also been studying the social impact of salmon canneries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

West ran a sawmill and a salmon cannery in the community.

At one time Oretown had a cheese factory and a salmon cannery.