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Fonds AM870 - Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company fonds
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Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company fonds

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AM870

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  • 1861-1972 (Creation)
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    Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company

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  • 0.89 m of textual records
  • 494 photographs
  • 7 plans

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Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company

Administrative history

Henry O. Bell-Irving founded the Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company in 1890. By 1891 the company had purchased seven Fraser River canneries and two on the Skeena River and it accounted for more than one quarter of British Columbia's total salmon pack. In 1901 Henry Bell Irving and Company Limited was incorporated as Canadian agent for the ABC Packing Company, which had been registered in Britain. The company remained with the Bell-Irving family for three generations. The company announced in 1969 that it would close out its British Columbia operations to concentrate on the East Coast herring fishery.

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The fonds consists of business records from the Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company and its American subsidiaries. Most of the records span the time 1891 to 1968. The majority of the records from the ABC Packing Company fall into three series: annual records, Advisory Board minutes and legal records. The records of the Fidalgo Island Packing Company are represented by three minute books covering the period from 1895 to 1964. There is also one bound minute book which documents five U.S. fishing companies which were owned by the Fidalgo Island Packing Company from 1910 to 1927.

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Donated by Ian Malcolm Bell-Irving in 1984, 1986 and 1996.

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Photographs in this fonds have been assigned catalogue numbers with the prefix CVA 783.

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