Holdings Information

Bibliographic Record Display

• Title:Inverness Cannery fonds
  
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• Corporate Author/Creator:Inverness Cannery.
  
• Published/Created:[approximately 1900 - 1967]
  

• Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:RBSC ASRS - (Confirm availability: email rare.books@ubc.ca) Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1284
    
  • Number of Items:47
    
  • Status:c.1 Box 6 Requested
    
  • Location Has:Box 1-47
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Inverness Cannery.
  J.H. Todd and Sons.
  Sooke Harbour Fishing and Packing Company.
  
• Description:7. 5 m of textual records and other material.
  7 stamps : rubber and wood.
  
• Summary:The fonds consists of records related to the operation of Inverness Cannery. Records span from the early 1900s all the way through to the 1950s when the cannery was closed and turned into a fish camp. The cannery was owned by J.H. Todd and Sons Ltd. from 1902-1950. The fonds is comprised of seven different series: Correspondence series, Financial series, Fish Canning series, Fish Catching series, Inverness Cannery School series, Legal series, and Publications, Pamphlets and News Clippings series.
  
• Biography/history note:Situated on the River Skeena, Inverness Cannery was built in 1876 by North Western Commercial Company. It was purchased from Turner, Berton Company by J. H. Todd and Sons of Victoria in 1902 who owned and managed the cannery until its closure in 1950. The cannery was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1920, and entirely destroyed by fire in 1973.
  
• Indexes and finding aids:Online inventory available.
  
• Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.