2010-02-20 Ship Harbor Cannery Ruins (06) (1024x680)

Ship Harbor, Guemes Channel.
Ship Harbor is now home for the Washington State Ferry Terminal to the San Juan Islands and Sydney (Victoria) Vancouver Island B.C.
Washington State Ferries (WSF) is a government agency that operates automobile and passenger ferry service in the U.S. state of Washington as part of the Washington State Department of Transportation. It runs ten routes serving 20 terminals located around Puget Sound and in the San Juan Islands, designated as part of the state highway system. The agency maintains the largest fleet of ferries in the United States at 22 vessels, carrying 24.2 million passengers in 2016. As of 2016, it was the largest ferry operator in the United States, and the fourth-largest ferry system in the world. Wikipedia

Ship Harbor Interpretive Preserve

Ship Harbor Cannery Ruins
Anacortes was often referred to as "The salmon canning capital of the world." The first cannery in Anacortes was opened in 1894, and by 1915 eleven canneries were built along the Guemes Channel on the north shore of Fidalgo Island.
"Ship Harbor was the site of two major canneries. The first cannery on Fidalgo Island was opened at Ship Harbor in 1894 the Fidalgo Island Packing Company. It would become one of the largest salmon canneries in the world. It later changed its name to Fidalgo Island Canning Company before closing in 1933 and moving to Canada. Two of its well-known labels were "Holly Leaf" brand salmon "packed fresh on Puget Sound" and "Wild Rose" brand. Another of the several local canning companies, Anacortes Canning Company, was also located at Ship Harbor. Alaska Packer Association purchased it in 1904 and it closed in 1934.
The banner year for the Anacortes canneries was 1913, when 39 million salmon were caught. Anacortes canneries alone did more than $3 million worth of business that year. There were later brief bursts of abundance, but overall, salmon runs permanently dwindled.
The many cannery buildings at Ship Harbor are all gone now except for some pilings, a few of the buildings stood there, abandoned, until the 1980's, when they were finally torn down. At one time, the cannery community at Ship Harbor included, in addition to the main cannery buildings and warehouses, bunkhouses and mess halls for workers, an office building, a general store, a blacksmith shop, a carpentry and paint shop, houses, sheds, pig pens, chicken coops, net houses and net racks." Anacortes Parks Foundation

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Taken on: February 20, 2010

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