All of the cannery’s fish came from five large commercial fish traps, and the work force consisted of Native, Chinese, Japanese, and EuroAmerican laborers (Kutchin 1906:22). By early August of 1907 the Thlinket Packing Company at Funter Bay was processing its sixth annual pack of pink salmon.Īlaska State Library Case & Draper collection PCA39-1002Ī warehouse was built in 1906, and during the following year the cannery building was expanded to hold additional machinery (Figure 11), so that by 1907 the facility had the capacity to pack 2,500 cases of pink salmon a year under labels such as “Buster,” “Sea Rose,” “Autumn,” “Peasant,” “Thlinket,” “Tepee,” and “Arctic Belle” (Pacific Fisherman 1907:21). That same year a U.S.Post Office was established at the cannery (Orth 1967:357).įigure 11. The land was patented as U.S.Mineral Survey 560 (Hill 1901), and Barron had a cannery built at Funter Bay and was packing fish by 1902 (Cobb 1922:44). It’s unlikely that the elder Barron had any intention of mining the claim he completed the initial $1000 worth of assessment work by excavating a 20’x 40’ hole six feet deep along the shore at what would become a warehouse site, and by digging a 2’ x 2’ “water flume” from a small creek to a point beside the machine shop that would become the cannery’s powerhouse. Barron was the father of Robert Barron, for whom the Peninsula’s highest point is named (Orth 1967:808). Barron organized the Thlinket Packing Company (Gaston 1911:88-89) and applied for 11.75 coastal acres on the northwest end of Admiralty Island as a mining claim – the Irvington Lode. 1998:37-44), and Funter Bay had probably long been favored for seasonal fishing (Figure 10). The Mansfield Peninsula is within the traditional territory of the Wuckitan clan of the Auk Tlingit (Goldschmidt et al. The mountain’s peak and upper slopes are above treeline a thick forest of spruce and hemlock carpets the landscape below to the water’s edge (Figure 8). The land consists of rolling moraine deposits from sea level up to an elevation of almost 500’, punctuated by sheer rock cliffs occurring from sea level up to the Peninsula’s highest point – Robert Barron Peak at 3475’ (Orth 1967:808). The cannery site is on a small peninsula projecting southwest into Funter Bay, on the Mansfield Peninsula at the northwest end of Admiralty Island (Figures 8-9). Paul spent most of World War II at the Thlinket Packing Company cannery at Funter Bay. See Figure 4 to orient map location in southeast Alaska. Map of the Funter Bay locality on the Mansfield Peninsula of Admiralty Island. We have included the normal ferry routes followed by both BC Ferries and Alaska Ferries in their network of watery trails joining coastal communities, and the large cruise ships follow much the same routes.Figure 9. As the actual routes followed by the numerous cruise lines vary, we can't show their actual sailing routes, but they generally follow the coastline within viewing distance of either the mainland or coastal islands, or both. This is a double-sided map, with Vancouver Island and the coastline as far north as Prince Rupert on one side (with inset maps of Seattle, Victoria, and Vancouver)on side 1, and the coastline north to Glacier Bay and an onward inset map to Anchorage (including an inset map of the city) on the second side. This map completes the mapping of the Pacific Ocean coastline by mapping the routes followed by cruise ships and Alaska Ferries heading north from Seattle and Vancouver to Alaska. We recently released our USA Pacific Coast Map, covering the segment between San Diego and Vancouver. The west coast of North America is so long that we have divided it into segments - the Central American and Mexican segments are shown on maps of those areas.
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