Alaska's Historic Canneries

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By: J. Pennelope Goforth One of the first salmon canneries to open in Alaska incited a riot before the ship had even offloaded a single...

(The following is taken from “Mrs. Jeanice Welsh Killed in Yakutat Earthquake,”  Pacific Fisherman  (August 1958): 47.  The earthquake in w...

Does this cannery or the surrounding landscape look familiar to you? It could be Southeast Alaska, or perhaps Prince William Sound. Pleas...

By: Steve Henrikson, Curator of Collections at the Alaska State Museum (Note: This article was republished from the Alaska State Museum...

By: James Mackovjak           The late Bob Thorstenson, one of the founders of Icicle Seafoods, once told me his favorite seafood was c...

( Note: This article was first published in the Capital City Weekly in Juneau) By: Pat Roppel Astoria , Oregon salmon processors b...