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Not starting this because it's not just one company, or one location; but this was the second-largest cannery firm in BC for a while; see BCGNIS listing "Millerd Creek". One of his sons was a William Millerd, who I think may have been Bill Millerd of the Vancouver entertainment industry; or the name is just a coincidence. I'm thinking of renaming this list List of cannery towns in British Columbia because of situations like this; Millerd's original cannery, though, was a floating cannery - no fixed address - Somerville & Co. - and tehre were a succession of places the firm owned canneries in; including West Vancouver and Redonda Bay. An interesting topic, if anyone would like a field of BC history to specialize in....the Norwegian legacy intrigues me (I'm half-Norwegian), partly because the cannery buildings I've seen pix of are clearly Norwegian-influenced; something you don't hear much about in multiculturalism studies; canneries are usually only taliked about re Asian/First Nations labour, and the Norwegian-immigrant linkage is usually subsumed into "European".Skookum1 (talk) 03:47, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Ah the Niho Land Hucksters... can't escape their orbit jim....

Canneries. Klemtu. Namu. Rivers, Kildonan, Port Edward, Essington, Esperanza, Ceepeecee, and on and on there were 200 canneries on the coast in 1920. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 20:46, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]