Canneries

Glade Hill is one of a fading constellation of publicly funded canneries in Virginia, and across the South.

Food products include processed meat, all types of canneries, wheat and flour, sweets and chocolate, dried fruits, soft drinks and beverages.

It operated several large canneries, mostly packing sardines from the 1920s until the 1950s when the sardines were over fished and the industry collapsed.

Several of the canneries burnt down in the 1970s but their ruins can still be seen along the oceanfront.

The Columbia River salmon population is now less than 3% of what it was when Lewis and Clark arrived at the river. citation Salmon canneries established by settlers beginning in 1866 had a strong negative impact on the salmon population.

The Finns mostly lived in Uniontown, near the present-day end of the Astoria–Megler Bridge, and took fishing jobs; the Chinese tended to do cannery work, and usually lived either downtown or in bunkhouses near the canneries.

The ghost towns in British Columbia were predominantly mining towns and prospecting camps as well as canneries and, in one or two cases, large smelter and pulp mill towns.

To distribute its products, Standard Oil constructed storage tanks, canneries (bulk oil from large ocean tankers was re-packaged into 5-gallon tins), warehouses and offices in key Chinese cities.