

The Cannery Kid: Cannery Kid Meets Cannery Cat
The cannery cats were a big part of cannery life and were said to have descended from the cats across the Skeena at Old Ben's place. The...
Sue Madill


GUEST POST. The Cannery Kid: The China House
The China House was a very mysterious place. As a "cannery kid" I had the run of the cannery property. I was a little more wary of the...
Dr. Gerald Philippson MD


GUEST WRITER. The Cannery Kid: Call of the Cannery
A long, long time ago in the early 1950's I spent about three weeks at the cannery. It was summer and my parents were heading off on a...
Joan Phillipson Young


GUEST POST. The Cannery Kid: Ice Cream Party
It was a beautiful early summer Sunday at North Pacific Cannery on the Skeena River. Sundays were often dull for a ten-year-old. It was...
Dr. Gerald Philippson MD


The Cannery Kid: Never a dull moment as a Cannery Kid
Living out on a river several kms from a hospital was in itself a challenge for my parents. My mother was a modern women and had learned...
Sue Madill


The Cannery Kid: Sunday, a Chance to Explore.
Working at the cannery was not a Monday to Friday kind of job It was more 24/7. However on Sunday my dad did his best to come up with an...
Sue Madill