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British Columbia
Port Essington Skeena cannery ghost town
Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: 1880s-1930s cannery tins, do not dig).
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Founded 1871 at the Skeena mouth and once the river's chief cannery town with a dozen plants, abandoned by mid-century and burned in 1961.
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