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• Title:British Columbia Packers Limited fonds
  
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• Corporate Author/Creator:British Columbia Packers.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:British Columbia Fishing and Packing Company.
  
• Published/Created:1892-1988
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1063
    
  • Number of Items:10
    
  • Status:c.1 Box 17 In Process 05-25-2016
    c.1 Box 18 In Process 05-25-2016
    c.1 Box 19 In Process 05-25-2016
    
  • Location Has:Box 17-20
    
    

  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS mapsWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1063
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:Box 1-16.
    
    

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  • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1063
    
  • Number of Items:16
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:Box 1-16.
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:British Columbia Packers.
  British Columbia Canning Company.
  British Columbia Fishing and Packing Company.
  Canadian Fish and Cold Storage Company.
  Coast Oyster Company.
  Edmunds and Walker Ltd.
  J.H. Todd and Sons.
  Nelson Brothers Fisheries.
  Nelbro Packing Company.
  Queen Charlotte Canners.
  Rupert Fish Company.
  Western Canada Whaling Company.
  
• Description:4. 2 m of textual records and other material
  
• Summary:The fonds consists of records generated by British Columbia Packers Limited, its predecessor bodies, and individual canneries and plants owned by the company. In addition to financial records, it includes plant appraisements for various canneries and properties owned by B.C. Packers Ltd., as well as Canadian Fish and Cold Storage Company Ltd., Coast Oyster Company, Edmunds and Walker Ltd., J.H. Todd and Sons Limited, Nelson Bros. Fisheries Ltd., Nelbro Packing Co., Queen Charlotte Canners Ltd., Rupert Fish Co. Incorporated and Western Canada Whaling Company Ltd. Those canneries and properties include Alert Bay Cannery, Bella Bella Cannery, Boswell Cannery, Celtic Shipyards, Imperial Plant, Kildonan, Klemtu, Ladner Cannery, Masset, Namu Cannery, New Westminster Cannery, Paramount Cannery, Port Edward Cannery, Prince Rupert Plant, Quathiaski Plant, Richmond Plant, and St. Mungo Cannery. In addition, the fonds consists of fifty printer's blocks for producing lithograph salmon tin labels and approximately 100 plastic cards used for advertising fish products. Also included are miscellaneous items such as the Roll of Honour of the B.C. Canning Company listing men in service during World War I, Fraser River charts (ca. 1929-1947), a sample of receipts for tram passes to B.C., and a framed sheet describing the history of the Bella Coola camp.
  
• Biography/history note:In 1902 the British Columbia Packer's Association of New Jersey was organized by Henry Doyle and Aemilius Jarvis through the consolidation of some forty-two B.C. salmon canneries. The Association was re-incorporated under the British Columbia Packers Act in 1910. Four years later its name was changed to the British Columbia Fishing and Packing Company Ltd. After amalgamating with Gosse Packing Company Ltd. in 1928, the company became B.C. Packers Limited.
  
• Indexes and finding aids:Inventory available.
  
• Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.
  Includes: 69 photographs, 4 sketches, 10 maps, 50 printers blocks, and ca. 100 plastic cards.