(At Annieville, on South Arm of Fraser River, south of Vancouver)

This site, on the world’s greatest sockeye salmon river, lured many pioneer canners in the late 1860s and early 1871s.  Pre-eminent was Alexander Ewen, a founder and first president of BC Packers, who established a cannery here in 1871.  The new salmon canning industry thrived on exports to foreign markets until by 1900 it was among the most important in the province.