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Surveying Historic Industrial Tidewater Sites: The Case of the B.C. Salmon Canning Industry (1987)

IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Volume: 13
Issue: 1
Pages: 1-16
Publication date: 1987
Language: English

URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40968123

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Photography, Aerial Fish Canneries Photographs Salmon Fire Insurance Industrial archaeology Buildings, Industrial Research methods British Columbia (Canada)

Too often archeologists and historians simply select a few sample sites for study without knowing how typical they are, or even the full extent of the archeological resource. The historical importance of North American coastal salmon canneries and the alarming rate at which the remaining older plants are disappearing led to a recent attempt to document the various cannery operations and assess the present physical condition and layout of each cannery site in British Columbia. The salmon canneries, like many historic industrial sites, are at tidewater locations. Coastal environments pose particular challenges for industrial archeologists. This is especially so in the case of a mountainous, flooded coastline typical of the Pacific Northwest of North America (also Scandinavian countries, New Zealand, and Japan, for example), where so much of the coast is accessible only by water or air. The ultimate purpose of the project has been to develop inexpensive survey strategies, including several complementary procedures to assist in a photoreconnaissance survey, for generating a data base on industrial tidewater sites. The significance of the preliminary findings is discussed.

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