Cassiar Cannery

Island Trader – 1977 28′ Fiberform

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Shiny clean interior and sound hull on a 1977 28′ Fiberform boat with new bottom paint, blinds and zincs. This vessel is set up for overnight boating with head, galley and v-berths. No trailer. This vessel is at the Cassiar Cannery.

Features:

Remote search light
Dual Mercury inboard gas motors
Depth sounder
Fish Finder
Standard electronics
Head with shower
Galley with stove, sink and oven
Swim Grid

Price: $8,000.00

Contact: Jim

Phone: 250-615-2106

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Steelhead House – COMING SOON

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READY FOR OCCUPATION ON JUNE 15, 2012 – NOW ACCEPTING RESERVATIONS

Cheerful, two bedroom, self-catered Guest House with Cassiar Cannery’s signature reclaimed yellow cedar flooring and handmade cedar furniture. Located adjacent to Coho House, Steelhead House sleeps six people in a newly renovated waterfront home. Luxury linens and feather duvets on new comfortable beds will rejuvenate our guests for their North Coast adventure. Features of Steelhead House include:

Fully equipped kitchen with new stainless fridge and original 1960s stove
Waterfront boardwalk
Living room with leather couch and TV/VCR
Front bedroom with queen bed
Back bedroom with two twin bunk beds
Bathroom with tub and shower – towels provided
Two night minimum rental
Housekeeping before and after your stay
Telephone and satellite TV available for long-term executive rental

Rates:

High season: May 15 – September 15: $200.00 per night
Shoulder season: April 15 – May 14; September 16 – October 15: $175 per night
Low Season: October 16 – April 14: $135.00 per night – please contact us prior to booking
Executive Rental: Contact us for availability
Rates are exclusive of applicable taxes
$50 pet cleaning fee – please contact us prior to bringing your pet as there are resident dogs

Photo gallery of Steelhead House will be updates as the restoration progresses. It will be ready for occupation by June 15, 2012

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UNBC Class Researches Historically Significant Area of BC’s Skeena Estuary – UNBC Press Release August 2011

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August 30, 2011

A class of 16 students from the University of Northern British Columbia and their instructors recently completed the first detailed assessment of biodiversity in a historically significant section of BC’s Skeena estuary. The study was conducted at the old Cassiar Cannery, which is situated next to several hundred hectares of salt marshes upstream of Port Edwards. The data was collected August 27-28 and has the potential to be of great importance to the study of climate change.

“The carbon stores in BC’s estuaries may be greater than those in B.C.’s entire portion of the boreal forest, so they have major environmental significance,” says UNBC Biology professor Darwyn Coxson, who led the class. “Of the major estuaries in western North America, the Skeena is the least well known. This data is very important to anyone concerned with climate change and the natural environment.”

An estuary is a partly enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the sea. The students measured plant biodiversity and abundance in the salt marshes as well as the area’s physical parameters including salinity, and elevation gradient.

“We found a great diversity of life at the site, which provides sustenance for much of the ocean nearby. The salt marsh and eelgrass beds provide critical habitat for juvenile fish, both for migrating salmon, where they provide a critical transitional habitat as the young salmon make the journey from fresh to saltwater habitats, and for many ocean fish, such as rockfish,” says Dr. Coxson. “The salt marshes are also a vital habitat for migrating shorebirds and contain many relatively rare plants, such as the northern rice root, which was a major food source for local First Nations.”

UNBC will continue to offer the Terrace-based course every other year, and Dr. Coxson says it will focus on the same section of the estuary. “This will provide updated data every year and allow us to determine how the environment is changing over time. We will be able to identify which species are growing in number, which are declining, and at what rates.”

Students in the third-year Biology course, part of a bachelor’s degree offered at UNBC and Northwest Community College’s Terrace campus, come from programs such as Geography, Biology, and Natural Resources and Environmental Studies.

Support for the 2011 Cassiar Cannery Rapid Biological Assessment was provided by Skeena Wild Conservation Trust, ECL Environmnental Solutions, and Cambria Gordon Ltd.

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16 UNBC students took part in the class, and studied a complex of salt marshes upstream of Port Edwards near Cassiar Cannery (Pictured).

Dr. Coxson and his class.

Contact:

Darwyn Coxson, Biology Professor, UNBC – 250.635.6511 ext. 5281, 250.612.2678
Mike Kellett, Communications Officer, UNBC – 250.960.5621

Science and Research

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Skeena Estuary Research Centre at Cassiar Cannery

Located in the estuary of the Skeena River, Cassiar Cannery is proud to announce the creation of the Skeena Estuary Research Centre at Cassiar Cannery.

When we arrived at Cassiar in 2006, we quickly realized how important the Skeena River is to the thousands of people throughout the watershed in addition to providing critical habitat for resident and migrating birds, mammals and salmon. One of the most fascinating characteristics of the Cassiar Cannery is its rich and varied ecosystem coupled with the humbling aspects of the importance of this place, this river and its diverse human history that depends on the health and bounty provided by the Skeena River and the Pacific Ocean.

In 2009, Ali Howard and the Skeena Swim Team swam 610km from the headwaters of the Skeena River to the ocean. She ended up here. For us, this cemented the link between the entire Skeena Watershed and the responsibility that comes with being a part of this remarkable place.

There is a large gap in scientific data on the West Coast between the research station in Nanaimo and the next one in Alaska. We are proud to begin the first phase of the Skeena Estuary Research Centre at Cassiar Cannery with a detailed assessment of the biodiversity of the Skeena Estuary along Cassiar’s foreshore area with the University of Northern British Columbia.

Led by Dr. Darwyn Coxson, Biology Professor at the Prince George Campus, permanent markers have been established at the Cassiar Cannery to record, catalogue and monitor the incredible diversity of species that make up the salt water tidal flats in this unique estuarine ecosystem. Check under ‘news’ for press release issued by UNBC and Dr. Coxson highlighting the environmental importance the carbon stores of BC’s estuaries in additional to providing critical habitat for salmon, birds and mammals.

We hope this is just the beginning of hosting many facets of science and research here. Future plans include building a proper facility to house as many fields of science and research that come forward to participate.

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33′ wooden ex-gillnetter ‘Jay Dee’

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This vessel is at the Cassiar Cannery.

The ‘Jay Dee’ is a pretty wooden ex-gillnetter, gas-powered, that needs some love.

Price: Best Offer

Contact: Richard

Tel: (250) 267-8687

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28′ 2008 Harbourcraft Kingfisher

admin — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:54:50 +0000

SOLD

THIS VESSEL IS IN PORT EDWARD

This 2008 Harbourcraft Kingfisher 2825 all aluminum vessel is in fantastic shape.

Power: Twin 225 four stroke Yamaha’s with new power heads

Kicker: 2009 9.9 Merc model EXLPT

Extras:

Garmin GPS 4212
HD18 radar
network box
airmar sounder
Deluxe interior with head and shower
Espar water heater
for and aft bus heaters
Wallace diesel stove/heater
Almost every available option

Trailer: 2005 tri axle easy loader, electric brakes and very low miles.

PRICE: Charter ready $125,000.00 FIRM

Contact Information:

T: 250-628-3500 home

C: 778-884-3500 cell

E: marlincharters@hotmail.com

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Vessels for Sale

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Please read each individual listing for information, contact details and location. Most of the vessels listed are not at the Cassiar Cannery and are posted for friends. Please contact the owner of the vessel with questions or to arrange a viewing. Happy boating!

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Charles Hays

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Built by Mike Collins of Broadwater Industries in Prince Rupert, the Charles Hays is the new Harbour Patrol boat commissioned by the Port of Prince Rupert. Poseidon Marine was contracted to do some of the interior finishing work including the galley and head cabinets, settees, tables and the headliner. Officially launched in Prince Rupert on April 14, 2011, this beautiful vessel will be patrolling the Prince Rupert harbour for years to come.

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Poseidon Marine featured in Western Mariner September 2010

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COURTESY OF WESTERN MARINER. Please click on the link below the story to see a pdf version of the article from the magazine.

POSEIDON MARINE GROUP

Mark Bell’s Poseidon Marine is based out of the old Cassiar Cannery (see page 47 in this issue). Mark was with Trites Marine, S&H Custom Yachts and Stratos Yacht Services prior to being partners in a boat shop at Race Rocks Marine (West Vancouver). In the early 2000s he went to Bo and Teak Spiller’s Commodore’s Crafted Boats at Shelter Island for several years during the massive wood rebuilds on the ex tugs VIKING KING and SWELL before moving to Cassiar in 2006. In the photo (inset) Mark is working at Rushbrooke Harbour on the aft cabin extension of the EROS, a 46 ft ex troller. The photo (left) shows the CHARLIE M, a 50-ft motor yacht, originally built in California with a ferro-cement hull and plywood house works, which received a new interior layout of wheelhouse, galley, saloon with mahogany woodworking plus new heating system etc. Exterior work included a new dodger plus an extension of the upper deck aft over the cockpit (both aluminum), as well as fairing, painting and bright-work. The MICHELE MARIE, another ex-troller with an aft cabin extension, received an interior refurbishing with cherry cabin sole etc while the 38-ft cruiser MADERIAN had its decks strengthened and recambered. A 200-ton 90′ x 36′ fishing lodge barge had taken up residence on the barge grid at Cassiar after a previous go-around had seen 60 new planks bolted in. Mark was able to send the barge away on the end of a towline after the owners agreed to an extensive hull recaulking (1600 lbs of oakum). The barge is now at the end of Port Edward’s new drive-on dock (see photo page 46).

Poseidon Marine featured in Western Mariner September 2010

Cassiar Cannery featured in Western Mariner September 2010

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COURTESY OF WESTERN MARINER. Please click on the link below the story to see a pdf version of the article from the magazine.

NEW LIFE AT CASSIAR CANNERY

Does this landscape (top photo) look familiar? Hint ‘A Letter from Home’. At the end of the road, past Port Edward on Inverness Passage at the mouth of the Skeena River, Justine Crawford and Mark Bell (top photo) bought the Cassiar Cannery four years ago. They live in the far house; half the orange and the red house (all are former cannery manager’s homes) are now renovated as rentals. The orange’s other and the white cabin are coming along and, when Western Mariner visited in late July, the green house was being jacked up for a new foundation. Recycled timbers and logs salvaged off the the river doorstep are milled for furniture, floors and structural timbers and lumber. Oldtimers with associations with Cassiar (for example Lloyd Kristmanson from Osland who drove many piles for Cassiar and the other Skeena canneries) have responded to the energy being expended by Crawford and Bell with support and hands-on know-how. The photo (above) shows the expansive wharf structure, its pilings and underpinnings still in overall good shape in the mainly fresh water. To the right is the boat shop erected in the 1960s with an adjacent synchro-lift and to the left is the oldest remaining building at Cassiar, the net loft dating back to the 1920s. Mark’s Poseidon Marine (see In the Shipyards in this issue) is presently located in the former general store (to the left middle photo) with plans to eventually move to the boat shop. In front of the former freezer building (erected in 1979) are some goodies dropped of by Bert and Harold Campbell of Welcome Harbour, Porcher Island. The cannery became fully operational in 1904 with the Cassiar Packing Co and operated into the early 1980s. For more history of Cassiar see www.cassiarcannery.com and as for the scene in the photo, check page 13 in this issue. Mrs Amor de Cosmos has been using a similar photo with her column going back to the premier issue of Western Fish & Seafood which was started up alongside Western Mariner in March 2003.

Cassiar Cannery featured in Western Mariner – September 2010