Labour Day in Canada has been celebrated on the first Monday in September since the 1880s.
From this historical archive, we remember some of the workers from the maritime industry, hard-working people who were caught on film, from an industry spread wide and deep throughout the Pacific Northwest. We start with a salt born in San Juan County;
Hail to the workers transporting the lumber. Puget Sound Freight Lines On land and sea Original undated photo from S.P.H.S.© |
George Leis Keeper of the Canoes for 37 years! at the time of this 1950 photograph at the UW. Original photo from the archives of the S.P.H.S.© |
Capt. John Backland Jr., 1937. Highly regarded Arctic trader aboard schooner C.S. HOLMES. Original photo from the archives of the S.P.H.S.© |
SHIPWRIGHT TOM PARKER trying to save the Schooner WAWONA, Seattle, WA., May 1950. Original photo from the archives of the S.P.H.S.© |
Hauling gold ore into the Port of Seattle, 1957 Original photo from the archives of the S.P.H.S.© |
Chet North building a set of reefnet boats at his shop in Deer Harbor, Orcas Island, in the 1940s. Photos kindly submitted by Barbara Brown, Orcas Island. |
Commercial fishermen pulling in salmon
on a reefnet boat near Squaw Bay.
Crew Jim Sesby (L) and gear owner
Ed Hopkins (R) and top, 1983.
Shaw Island, WA.
photocopies courtesy of the Hopkins family.
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Rev. Glion T. Benson with his new 26' mission boat, the ROYAL CROSS, boating to work in the San Juan Islands. Dated June 1957. Original photo purchased for the archives of the S.P.H.S.© |
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