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This is a list of canneries. A cannery is involved in the processes of canning , a method of preserving food in which the food contents are processed and sealed in an airtight container. Canneries
These canneries were full of overlooked sanitation problems, such as poor hygiene and unsanitary work environments. Since the refrigerator did not exist and industrial canning standards were not set in place it was very common for contaminated cans to slip onto the grocery store shelves.
By 1872, Robert Hume was operating a number of canneries, bringing in Chinese workers willing to work for low wages to do the cannery work, and having local Native Americans do the fishing. By 1883, salmon canneries had become the major industry on the Columbia River, with 1,700 gillnet boats supplying 39 canneries with 15,000 tonnes of salmon ...
The first salmon cannery was established in North America in 1864 on a barge in the Sacramento River.. A salmon cannery is a factory that commercially cans salmon.It is a fish-processing industry that became established on the Pacific coast of North America during the 19th century, and subsequently expanded to other parts of the world that had easy access to salmon.
Canneries Chetlo Harbor Packing Company, Chetlo Harbor, Washington (operated from 1912 to 1915, canning 10,000 cases of Salmon) Gulf of Georgia Cannery, Steveston, British Columbia (re-opened in 1994 as a fishing and canning museum) Kake Cannery, Alaska; Kukak Cannery Archeological Historic District, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska
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A significant number first started being recruited for work by contractors for the salmon canneries and mines in Alaska. In the canneries, Filipinos worked with other groups of Asians loading and unloading trucks; and line jobs consisting of sorting, gutting, cleaning, and packing fish. The tasks of maintenance and operations were assigned to ...
Cannery Row is a waterfront street in the New Monterey neighborhood of Monterey, California, known for formerly being home to a number of now-defunct sardine canneries. The last of these closed in 1973.