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Packing merged, and Gosse's former San-Mateo Cannery closed. The latter machinery and equipment came to Kildonan, which augmented the existing dry-salting of chum salmon and herring for the Japanese and Chinese markets with salmon canning and freezing herring for halibut bait. The additional capacity proved sufficient for all their requirements. The reduction and dry-salting operations proved very profitable. However, that year, the pilchard migrated far out into the ocean, requiring larger fishing boats.
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Kildonan Lodge. Nowadays, the ferry drops off and collects mail three times weekly at the floating post office. The post office hours are limited to two days a week.
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Kildonan and Nootka operating on the west coast. During the 1937–1941 drive to unionize the Vancouver Island canneries, the leading edge of the organization campaign was based at Kildonan. Albacore tuna was canned at the site after 1939. The
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Macdonald and Terman established the Alberni Packing Co. Creating the first cannery on the west coast of Vancouver Island, the company erected the Uchucklesaht Cannery on pilings. Purchased by Wallace Bros. Packing in 1906, or soon after, owners, Peter and John Wallace, renamed the
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suddenly appeared in abundance along the coast, leading to a three-year fishing boom. That year, the cannery installed a Hiller
Reduction Unit for manufacturing oil and fertilizer from this species. BC Packers completed a deal for all the Wallace canneries the next year, or soon after. In 1928, BC
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155:. Reorganized as Wallace Fisheries in 1911, the company began a complete rebuild, and added a large cold storage in 1913. Such expansions increased the demand for seasonal workers, and the accommodation of bunkhouses for single men and cottages for families.
223:(CP) coastal steamboat run, which remained largely unchanged until the early 1950s. From the 1930s, the summer schedule was every 5 days. During the 1950s, the terminal moved south to Chamiss Bay. In July 1958, CP withdrew the west coast route.
162:(BC Packers), to take over their Kildonan, Strathcona, Caxton, Quatsino and Naden Harbour canneries, his disinterest in the latter two, because they were exclusively designed for pink and chum salmon, scuttled any deal.
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