North Pacific Cannery Prince Rupert BC
Video blog of a trip to the North Pacific Cannery outside of Prince Rupert and hanging out in and around the city on a summer day.
North Pacific Cannery
Teresa the Traveler goes to Prince Rupert and visits the North Pacific Cannery - the oldest intact cannery on the West Coast. For more information visit
Roberta Stewart - Growing Up at North Pacific Cannery
Roberta Stewart grew up at North Pacific Cannery. Here, she talks about what childhood at the cannery was like.
North Pacific Cannery BC
Moste complete historical cannery.
A national treasure near Prince Rupert
The North Pacific cannery is 120+ years old where First Nations worked with white man and each other (a rarity). Over 500 in staff prepared an estimated 2 billion pounds of salmon during its years of operation.
Cassiar Cannery 2018 BC Northern Tour - Friendship Song
Wii Gisiwilgwelk Dancers, Big Northern Lights Dancers performed at Cassiar Cannery for the BC Northern Bike Tour. Beautiful day to sing the friendship song together.
Ian Shopland - Cannery Culture
Ian Shopland spent the summers during his childhood at North Pacific Cannery. While there, he witnessed the racial prejudices of the 1940s and 1950s, and it deeply affected him. He vowed not to let his children and grandchildren grow up with the same mindset, and so raised them to be 'totally colourblind.'
*Disclaimer: The views expressed in this video are not those of North Pacific Cannery National Historic Site, nor the Port Edward Historical Society. NPCNHS and PEHS do not endorse any of the views expressed, but merely present this viewpoint as one of many for your perusal.
Mona Izumi on Working for Marubeni (Nakamura Suisan) at Cassiar Cannery
Mona Izumi spent part of her childhood at Sunnyside Cannery south of Port Edward, BC. She later worked at Cassiar Cannery for Marubeni, a subsidiary of Nakamura Suisan. They were one of the only groups to never join the shoreworkers' union.
Port Edward and the North Pacific Cannery
Located along the Northwest Corridor on Highway 16 West of Northern British Columbia is the community of Port Edward and the North Pacific Cannery. Since being established in 1889 and being open for almost 100 years, the North Pacific Cannery served the region and was a prominent fixture of the fishing industry.
Pacific Cannery of Port Edwards BC tour
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Roberta Stewart - Working at North Pacific
Roberta Stewart is a Nisga'a woman who grew up and later worked at North Pacific Cannery. Here she talks about the various jobs she worked starting at a very young age.
Silent Cannery
Music and Lyrics written and performed by long time Prince Rupert musician and close personal friend, Dan Sklapsky. Dan writes his songs from the heart and this is certainly no exception.
Shot on location at the North Pacific Cannery museum in Port Edward, BC Canada.
Shot on a 5D Mark II and a C100.
Almost Gone - Remains of Cannery Villages of BC (Excerpts)
Almost Gone, Remains of Cannery Villages is a multi-media collage of photographs, video sequences, interviews and soundtrack. This 26-minute production evokes the essence of abandonment of the canning industry on the central and northern BC coasts, where the remains of buildings and people's memories echo the experiences of long-gone communities. It expresses the disheartenment of finding so little evidence of an important era of BC history.
In 2003, Florence Debeugny travelled part of the BC central coast to photograph past cannery villages such as Bella Coola, Namu, Butedale, Bella Bella and Tallheo.
In 2004, she spent two weeks at the North Pacific Museum, a former cannery village close to Prince Rupert, photographing remains of surrounding cannery villages such as Inverness, Cassiar and Port Essington.
Steveston Rebuilt
This part of Steveston BC has a history of housing the cannery workers, but the canneries have gone and the old worker's housing is being ripped apart by the voracious demands of Vancouver's suburban property market. Some of this process is visible in this video, filmed 23 Aug 2013.
Cassiar Cannery
To the many amazingly wonderful friends and family that shared and share the memories.
Port Essington, BC
Port Essington, on the Skeena River, was a commercial Cannery and trading hub from 1870 to 1960. No one lives there anymore!
Canneries of the North Coast
The lower Skeena River on British Columbia's North Coast was line with over 26 canneries starting in 1877 with the Inverness Cannery. Inverness was situated in the Skeena Slough or one arm of the delta of the Skeena River before it empties into the Pacific Ocean. This slough is also Known as Cannery Row due to the numerous canneries which lined it's shores. North Pacific Cannery and Cassiar Cannery still have substantial remains with North Pacific now a national historic site. Other than these two relatively easily accessible canneries, many of the other ones are boat access only and at different stages of decay and remaining remnants. The hidden treasures that remain and the stories they tell are truly amazing. One of the best sources of information on the canneries is Gladys Blyth's book Salmon Canneries British Columbia North Coast. We are fortunate to be able to deliver a 3 day tour to these sites plus many other fishing villages and historic sites in our Canneries of the North Coast Tour. Through the UNBC Northern BC Adventures Program
Prince Rupert B.C. - A collection of HD footage continued....
Still a work in progress..... to be continued.......
Historical Brown's Mill
Boat trip in 1992 to Brown's Mill and Falls River on the Ecstall River near Prince Rupert and on to Frizzell's Hot springs on the Skeena River. Brown's Mill was a hydro powered saw mill and operated from around 1900 to 1975(?). Now all has been removed and a modern power generator has replaced the old buildings. The water does not cascade down the rocks any more.
Prince Rupert
Nate's VLOG for his beautiful wife: July 5 2011. Prince Rupert, BC, Canada