People uprooted from Knight Inlet / Knight Inlet Cannery (13)

Knight Inlet, one of the largest on the BC coast, was a seasonal meeting area for many Indigenous Peoples prior to the late 1800s. Glendale Cove, sixty kilometres from the mouth of the inlet, was the site of a Kwakwaka'wakw village. Non-Indigenous settlers attempted to establish a farm settlement in the 1890s near Glendale Cove and several small, independent logging companies operated in the area. The Knight Inlet Cannery was built at the mouth of the inlet in 1907. Knight Inlet remained relatively uninhabited due to its remote, mountainous location.

In 1910, the cannery was purchased by the Anglo British Columbia Packing Company (ABC Packing Co.) and the building was moved to Glendale Cove. At its peak the cannery employed 150 people, many of whom lived at the cannery with their families. In 1946, the cannery ceased operations and the netting facilities were moved to Alert Bay. Most of the Japanese Canadians worked seasonally at the cannery and resided in the Vancouver area the rest of the year.