

Tree-planting 101
Tree-planting was not something I had ever considered doing until the day my boyfriend and I found ourselves unemployed at the same time....
Sue Madill


The Cannery Kid: Always Learning Something
When the Herring season started a new Assistant Manager arrived . Mr. Winter came with his young family in the spring of 1972. The...
Sue Madill


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: 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


The Cannery Kid: The Company Store
Like all small villages at the time, the company store was the hub of activity. The store was down the boardwalk from the house and it...
Sue Madill