Cannery Fishing Ledger

Scope and Content: File consists of a ledger that was created between September 14 - October 1941 while the Brunswick Cannery No. 2 site was used as a net and boat storage facility. Many fishermen lived in the former cannery buildings including Japanese fishermen and their families prior to internment. This ledger co…

Scope and Content: File consists of a ledger that was created between September 14 - October 1941 while the Brunswick Cannery No. 2 site was used as a net and boat storage facility. Many fishermen lived in the former cannery buildings including Japanese fishermen and their families prior to internment. This ledger contains fishing records for various fishermen who are listed by their initials, boat number and the amount and type of fish caught and sold to the fish processing plant which could be the Imperial plant in Steveston. Some of the fishermen's names entered include; S. Nagata, Yoshinori Higo, Saichiro Higo, Louie Wilson and Fred Wilson. Some of the ledger pages contain Japanese writing in the upper right hand corner.

Subject Access: Fishermen; Fish Canneries; Japanese Canadians; Wars - Second World War