BC 2022 : 2022-07-24 : North Pacific Cannery with Calkins

Tip
Type Name Description Service Provider Cost Notes Actions
Reminder Lisette's Binerdana $0.00
Activity
Type Name Description Service Provider Cost Kms To Date Total Notes Actions
Tour North Pacific Cannery Recommended by Lisette $0.00
Accommodation
Type Name Service Provider Confirmation Location Cost Notes Actions
Hotel Best Western Terrace Booking.com 4553 Greig Ave, V8G 1M7, Terrace $150.00


Trip Log

Notes Actions
Mechanical Butcher’s real name
Re the company store (pic below):

Workers were paid only at the end of the season. In the interim they were given coupons to use at the company store so they had no idea how much they were spending. Also the store manager would adjust prices based on whether or not he liked you. So, many workers ended up owing money to the company store at the end of the season and were thus forced to sign up for the following season to work.
We woke up this morning and did a load of laundry, had breakfast, and then headed off into the rainy morning to the North Pacific Cannery where the Calkins family was going to meet us for the tour. Lisette and the had been there before, but it was a first for Vince, Brent and me. It was really interesting. More interesting than I would have expected for a fish canning museum. My main takeaway was the astonishing level of exploitation of the fish population and the workers. They had Chinese, Japanese and First Nations workers, all who had their own jobs, and were naturally segregated by language. They worked in horrifying conditions and were, essentially treated as disposable. No surprise.
In the evening we hung out on Vince and Lisette’s covered deck where we sampled Vince’s fancy beer, learned to play otrio, and taught Maelle and Sabine to play Hawaiian music on their noses and bagpipes on their throats


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