Sentence examples for fishing canneries from inspiring English sources

We should mention that Wendy is on her way to Ketchikan, Alaska, where she hopes to find work in the fishing canneries.

European settlement in southernmost Vancouver Island and the signing of the Douglas Treaties (1850 1854) changed Lekwungen lifeways and livelihoods dramatically by encroaching on traditional lands and limiting fishing rights, as well as imposing waged work on Indigenous Peoples in agriculture, fishing, canneries and housekeeping (Lutz 2009).

Fishing and fish canneries are also important.

The main industries in the city are coffee- and tobacco-processing plants, distilleries, and fish canneries.

Formerly it was home to a large herring fleet and fish canneries.

With railroad connections and improved harbour facilities, Bellingham's timber-pulp operations, fish canneries, and pleasure-boat building industries developed.

Senegal has fish canneries, a shoe factory, and a cement-manufacturing plant, the last two located in Rufisque.

Migrants often took the kinds of jobs — in chicken slaughterhouses and fish canneries — that Americans did not want, for wages they would not accept.

North Shields has oil-storage facilities, ship-repair yards, and fish canneries, and shipbuilding and the manufacture of marine parts and equipment are important at Wallsend.

Along its waterfront are shipyards, dry docks, fish canneries, and oil refineries, as well as a memorial to the merchant marines.

There are photos of Filipino laborers in the agribusinesses of Hawaii and California and the fish canneries of Alaska starting in the early 20th century.