MEDIA

The story of North Pacific Cannery is an intriguing one. We love to work with different media partners from helping partner tourism organizations showcase the North Coast to hosting independent media to scientists sharing their research.

Below find a list of media that either focuses on the cannery or features it. 

Charting the Emerging Field of Japanese Diaspora Archaeology by Douglas E. Ross and Koji Lau-Ozawa, 2025

Haida Gwaii: A Guide to BC's Islands of the People, Expanded by Dennis Horwood, 2016

Shadow House: Interpretations of Northwest Coast Art by Jonathan Meuli, 2013

Vanishing British Columbia by Michael Kluckner, 2011

The Punjabis in British Columbia by Kamala Elizabeth Nayar, 2012

Voices of British Columbia: Stories from Our Frontier by Robert Budd, 2010

Tourism and Indigenous Peoples by Richard Butler and Tom Hinch, 2007

Summer at the Cannery by Gladys Young Blyth, 2005

Someone to Walk With by Gladys Young Blyth, 2003

Sutebusuton: A Japanese Village on the British Columbia Coast by Mitsuo Yesaki, 2003

Creating Societies: Immigrant Lives in Canada by Dirk Hoerder, 2000

The Skeena, River of Destiny by Dr R. Geddes Large - 1996

Salmon Canneries: British Columbia North Coast by Gladys Blyth, 1991

Development of the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry. by Diane Newell, 1989

Fodor's The Complete Guide to Alaska Cruises, 2016, 2025

Lonely Planet British Columbia & The Canadian Rockies by John Lee, 2022
 

Comfortably Wild: The Best Glamping Destinations in North America by Mike and Anne Howard, 2019

Moon British Columbia: Including the Alaska Highway by Andrew Hempstead, 2018

Alaska on the Go: Exploring the Alaska Marine Highway System by Erin Kirkland, 2017

Best Places Northwest, 17th Edition by Jo Ostgarden, 2010

Ulysses Travel Guides: Western Canada, 2004

The Inside Passage and Coastal Alaska by Lynn and Ed Readicker-Henderson, 2002

Alaska Highway by Lynn and Ed Readicker-Henderson, 2001

Inside Passage: A Journey Beyond Borders by Richard Manning, 2000

Northern View: "Discarded Cigarette Causes Fire That Cut Port Ed Music Fest Short" 2025

Northern View: "Revived Intertidal Music Festival Cut Slightly Short by Fire" 2025

Northern View: "Intertidal Muic Festival Returns to North Pacific Cannery July 18-20" 2025

Northern View: "North Pacific Cannery Features Master Carver Dempsey Bob" 2024

Northern View: "Scale Replica Trains Starting A New Journey Under North Pacific Cannery Operations" 2022

Northern View: "North Pacific Cannery Needs to Reel in $400,000 Cash Influx" 2021

Northern View : "North Pacific Cannery Pushing to be Named UNESCO World Heritage Site" 2013

Northern View: "VIDEO and Photos: Intertidal Music Festival" 2017

Northern View: "Heart of Our City: Sharing a Piece of History" 2019

Northern View: "Heart of Our City: Steve Milum is a Cannery's Hero and Rupert's Trailblazer" 2015

Northern View: "What's New at The North Pacific Cannery?" 2019

Northern View:

"Many Changes Coming to North Pacific Cannery" 2013

Northern View:

"North Pacific Cannery Launches New Interpretive Signage" 2013

Northern View

"North Pacific Cannery Celebrates 125 Years" 2014

Northern View: "North Pacific Cannery Celebrates Special Milestone" 2019

Northern View: "Canadian Government Supports Restoration Work on North Pacific Cannery" 2013

Northern View: "Science Meets History at North Pacific Cannery" 2014

Northern View: "Prince Rupert Students Help Restore North Pacific Cannery" 2013

Northern View: "North Pacific Cannery Restoration Project" 2016

Northern View: "North Pacific Cannery Ready to Rock Out Once Again" 2017

Northern View:

"Dempsey Bob Comes To The North Pacific Cannery for a Meet and Greet" 2023

Northern View: "North Pacific Cannery Getting Some TLC This Summer" 2011

Northern View: "Carpenters In Training Complete Work at North Pacific Cannery" 2015

Northern View: "Paws and Claws Donates Funds to Cannery Road Animal Rescue and 1950's Stove to North Pacific Cannery Museum" 2012

Northern View: "Sharing the History of the Northwest Salmon Cannery" 2011

Northern View: "Cannery Receives $75,000 Grant for Canada150" 2017

Northern View: "North Pacific Cannery to Receive Portion of $16 Million in Provincial Funding" 2021

Northern View: "Cannery Prepped to Host Music Festival" 2017

Northern View: "New Access to Restored Dock at the Cannery" 2016

Northern View: "Terror At The Cannery Lures in Nearly 700 Guests" 2018

Northern View: "Cannery Loses It's General Manager" 2016

Northern View: "Cannery Prepares for a Big Summer" 2017

Northern View: "Cannery Working Dock Expands" 2016

Northern View: 

"$1.4M For Cannery's Biggest Restoration Project" 2018

Northern View: "Preserving Maritime History on the North Coast" 2016

Northern View: "Gladys Blyth Named Walter Smith Visionary Award Winner" 2011

Northern View: "Port Edward: This Historic Site Was Built on Something Fishy" 2020

Northern View: "Heart of Our City: The Heritage Queen" 2016

Tides to Tins: North Pacific Cannery

BC Guide to Arts & Culture: North Pacific Cannery

Carleton University: "Vacation in Canada, eh? 10: The North Pacific Cannery National Historic Site, British Columbia" - Peter Coffman, 2025

Time Travel Trek:  "A Tale of BC’s Fishing Heritage: North Pacific Cannery National Historic Site" 2025

Ursula's Weekly Wanders: North Pacific Cannery 2025

Prince Rupert Cruise Port: "Must See Detail | North Pacific Cannery" 2023

Coastview: "North Pacific Cannery" - 2023

Hey Beth Taylor: "Touring the North Pacific Cannery Historic Site" 2023

North Coast Review: "Destination Adventure Trek on the North Coast Takes us to North Pacific Cannery Historical Site"  2022

Parks Canada History: "Cannery Stabilization and Conservation, North Pacific Cannery National History Site" 2021

Teresa the Traveler: "North Pacific Cannery" 2021

Salmon Trails: "Salmon Trails" 2020

Lonely Planet: "North Pacific Cannery National Historic Site" 2020

David W Willett Blog: "Prince Rupert BC to Bothell, Washington" 2019

BCRobyn: "Prince Rupert Archives" 2019

Storyboard Wedding: "Romanic Nautical Infused Port Edward British Columbia Wedding At The North Pacific Cannery" 2018

Active History.ca 

"Community Engagement and Public History at the North Pacific Cannery" 2017

Bride.ca: "Real Wedding: Dustin & Lucy Wilderness Meets Heritage at the Pacific North Cannery" 2015

Prince Rupert Port Authority: "Working Dock Restoration Project, North Pacific Cannery" 2013

Northern Development BC

"Port Edward Historical Society Re-Brands North Pacific Cannery To Renew Tourism Marketing Efforts" 2012

BC Robyn: "North Pacific Cannery, Prince Rupert" 2012

Travis Ridgen "4 Days in Canada's BEST Kept Secret: Prince Rupert" 2025

Rebecca Felgate: 
"Prince Rupert's Weirdly Aesthetic 100 Year Old Fish Factory" 2025

Japanese Canadian Legacies Foundation: "North Pacific Cannery Triplex Restoration" 2025

Still Standing "Season 10 Episode 2 - Prince Rupert, BC" - 2024 - CBC

Amazing Race Canada Season 4, Episode 5: "The Little Blind Tugboat That Could" - 2016 - CTV

Destination Adventure: "From Coast to Queen, They Fed the World From the Sea" - 2022

Great Bear Tales - "Inverness Passage Cannery Row" - 2022

The Real McNeals - "Visiting A Cannery on the Canadian West Coast - North Pacific Cannery" - 2022

North of 50 - "North Pacific Cannery Museum - Port Edward BC" - 2021

Captain Quinn "History of Salmon Fishing and Canneries In The Skeena River, British Columbia" - 2020 TELUS STORYHIVE

Captain Quinn"Skeena Salmon & Steelhead" - 2020 - TELUS STORYHIVE

Red Chef Revival - "Episode 3 - Prince Rupert" - TELUS STORYHIVE - 2019

The Healing Hiker - "Visit to North Pacific Cannery in Port Edward BC" - 2019

Adams Van Adventures - "7-10-15 - Day 73 - North Pacific Cannery, British Columbia" - 2016

Teresa The Traveler -" North Pacific Cannery" - 2013

BC Field Reporter Gary G"Cow Bay North Pacific Cannery" - 2008

Florence Debeugny - "Almost Gone - Remains of Cannery Villages of BC" - 2004

CFTK-TV: North Pacific Cannery, 2003

CFTK-TV: North Pacific Cannery Restoration, 2020

Skeena Journal: Visits North Pacific Cannery in 2000

Skeena Journal: Tours North Pacific Cannery 1994

Skeena Journal: Discussing Restoration Plans 1986

Knowledge Network: BC Moments Prince to Prince, 2001

Knowledge Network: BC Moments: North Pacific Cannery Village and Museum, 2001

Directory of Federal Heritage Designations: North Pacific Cannery National Historic Site of Canada. 2002

UBC Library Open Collections: "Ethnic and Social Divides Within the BC Salmon Canning Industry: A Study" 2023

OpenETC: "Segregation and Japanese Labour at the North Pacific Cannery from 1918 until 1923 by Sarah Utz" 2017

Parks Canada History: "North Pacific Cannery: Success Through Exploitation and Convenience" 2016

OpenETC: "HIST 493 Final Project Part 1" 2017

OpenETC: "Designation of Jobs According to Gender and Race at the North Pacific Cannery by Eliza McClenagan" 2017

OpenETC: "The Battle for Labour Rights in Skeena Canneries: 1950-1964 by Emily Watt" 2017

UBC: "Detailing the Lives of Those Working in the Fishing Fleet at the North Pacific Cannery by D.Chan" 2013

UBC "Uncovering the Working Experience at the North Pacific Cannery: The Canning Line by A Westerhof" 2013

UBC: "The Everyday Experiences of a North Coast Japanese Canadian Fisherman, at Home and In the Workplace by J Staeck" 2013

Carleton: "Ecological Thresholds: Tracing Fish Journeys in and Beyond Industry Expansion by LA Liebe"  2024

British Columbia History: "When the Rains Came Early: The Fatal, Freak Summer Freshet of 1891 by D. Septer" 2006

The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology: "Surveying Historic Industrial Tidewater Sites: The Case of the BC Salmon Canning Industry by D. Newell" 1987

Library Archives Canada: "The Rise and Demise of JH Todd and Sons, British Columbia's Enduring Independent Salmon Canners by M. Fitzgerald" 2015

UBC: "Life on the Line: Indigenous Women Cannery Workers' Experiences of Precarious Work by NJ Morgan" 2015

British Columbia History: "The Chinese Canners in Port Essington by L. Chow" 2001

UBC: "Geographies of the Lower Skeena, 1830-1920 by DW Clayton" 1989

GeoHumanities - "Canoes, Modernity and the Colonial Imagining of Progress by M. Ritts, K Johnson, J Peyton." 2018

Western Historical Quarterly: "Japanese Exclusion and Environmental Conservation in the BC Salmon Fisheries, 1900-1930 by B Bryce" 2022

UBC: "Race, Labour, and The Architecture of White Jobs: Chinese Labour in British Columbia's Salmon Canning Industry, 1871-1941 by DA Eeg" 2017

Labour/Le Travailleur: "Building the Great Lucrative Fishing Industry': Aboriginal Gillnet Fishers and Protests over Salmon Fishery Regulations for the Nass and Skeena Rivers, 1950s-1960s by M. Wright" 2008

Identity: "Fish Stories and Histories: Representations of Cultural Minorities and the Canadian State by T Downham" 2014

Scandinavian-Canadian Studies: "Ryan Wahl. Legacy in Wood: The Wahl Family Boat Builders by L. Olson" 2009

The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy: "Panarchy, Transformation and Place: Exploring Social Change and Resiliency Through an Ecological Lens by N. Stanger, JV Beauchamp" 2015