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THE FISHERMAN
December 16, 1960
Yuletide Greetings to Our Fishermen Friends and Customers
Surrey Co-operative Association
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Best Wishes from the Capital' of
Annieville First in 1870
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Meny Christmas
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
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CEMENT — TILE LADNER, B.C.
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To our Fishermen Friends and Their Families
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DIRKS BAKERY
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Merry Christmas and A Prosperous 1961
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Stoves - Paints - Plumbing - Sheet Metal Work
MONAMEL & MONASEAL PRODUCTS
Early Fraser Salmon Canning
• This piece on early Fraser River salmon processing is taken fom the Land of the Peace Arch, written by John Pearson of South Westminster and published in 1^58 by Surrey Centennial Committee. •
CAPTAIN William Spring, in 1863, began salting and curing salmon at Beechy Bay. In the following year Mr. Annandale, with whom Mr. Alexander Ewan was associated, opened a salmon saltery on the Fraser River. This venture was almost a complete failure owing to the attempt to use the Scotch trap nets instead of drift nets. The former were found utterly unsuited to the conditions on Fraser River. When this enterprise failed, Mr. Ewan introduced drift nets and carried on an extensive business in salted salmon with the Hawaiian Islands and Australia.
The first attempt, on the Fraser River, to preserve salmon in hermetically sealed cans was made in 1867 by James Symes. This was not a commercial effort, but a mere experimental test to ascertain the possibility. A few cans were prepared, filled, and cooked by boiling on an ordinary kitchen stove. The result was most encouraging. The product was shown at the Agricultural Exhibition held in New Westminster in October 1867, and was pronounced excellent, the directors making special mention of it.
About the same year Donald McLean established another salmon curing establishment at New Westminster. Besides salted salmon, he put up pickled salmon —salmon boiled and preserved in vinegar—and smoked and kippered salmon.
★ ★ ★ THE CANNING OF SALMON as a business was first undertaken, on the Fraser, by Alexander Loggie and Company. The persons interested were Alexander Loggie, Alexander Ewan, James Wise, and David S. Hen-nessy. Mr. Ewan was an experienced fisherman; Messrs. Loggie and Hennessy had had expert's £
MERRY CHRISTMAS !
LADNER GENERAL REPAIR SHOP
WH. 6-2218 LADNER, B.C.
ence in the canneries of New Brunswick.
In June, 1870, these persons built, in connection with a salmon saltery, the first salmon cannery in British Columbia. It was located at Annieville, about three miles below New Westminster. The cannery was a very primitive affair; the cylinders upon which the cans were shaped were of wood, covered with sheet iron; the trays were small wooden contrivances, holding about three dozen one pound cans. There was practically no machinery; the operations were almost entirely by hand. The fish after being put into the cans was preserved by boiling in large wooden vats.
Great difficulty was experienced in thoroughly cooking the fish, the boiling point of ordinary water not proving sufficient; to overcome this, salt was added to the water and by this means the temperature was raised to 230 degrees. The room in which the cooking was performed was, in temperature, like a Turkish bath room; no windows or doors were allowed to be opened, except of necessity, under the mistaken idea that the cold currents of air would injure the product.
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ABOUT 1873, LOGGIE AND Company removed their cannery to New Westminster, where in the meantime Messrs. Lane, Pike and Nelson had established themselves in the same business. These latter persons conceived the plan of canning the salmon whole; the sockeyes being of an almost uniform size, lent themselves readily to this attempt. It was, however, a complete failure, as, owing to the great vacuum in the cans, they became distorted.
Messrs. Findlay, Durham, and Brodie established, in 1873, a cannery on Deas Island, some miles above Ladner.
In 1877 Marshall M. English, later one of the most successful canners, entered the business, building a very modern plant (for those early days) at Brownsville, opposite New Westminster.
In the autumn of 1878 James A. Laidlaw, who had been connected with the cannery operated by Mr. English, organised Delta Canning Company, which located its plant at Ladner. Interested with him were Thomas E. Ladner, J. H. Lyon and F. Page.
About four miles above New
Westminster—within the confines of the Port Mann of today — Messrs. Haigh Brothers erected, in 1879, the Coquitlam cannery— the Bon Accord, of later years. They were not, at first, successful, and the business was shortly afterward reorganised as Benjamin Haigh and Sons.
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CAPTAIN STAMP'S CANNERY soon passed into the hands of the Hon. Henry Holbrook, one of the most prominent merchants and public men of the colony. Later it became the property of Messrs. King and Wright. In 1879 it was destroyed by fire. Mr. Laidlaw, in 1881, purchased the site and rebuilt the cannery. In 1882 he erected, close by, a second cannery. Both of these were operated by him in 1882.
Besides these, the year 1882 saw considerable additions to the canneries on Fraser River. Messrs. Todd and Son built the Richmond cannery on Lulu Island. Messrs. M. M. English and S. B. Martin concluded to extend their operations and they built in that year their second cannery, known as the North Arm Cannery.
The British Union Cannery, owned by John Adair and Company, and the British American Cannery, owned originally by Benjamin Young, Andrew Young, Donald R. Lord, and Gust Holmes, both situated on Canoe Pass, a few miles below Ladner, were erected also in 1882. Thus early the canneries are seen gradually getting closer and closer to the mouth of the River. In all, thirteen canneries were in operation in 1882. The total output for that year was estimated at about 250,000 cases, each containing four dozen one pound cans.
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B. Blaxland & Son
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WELDING AND FABRICATION MARINE IRON WORK
Nelson Marsh and Jim Coulter
WH. 6-3101
Box 173
Ladner, B.C.
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