Deas Island Cannery

A plaque commemorating the location of the Deas Island Cannery, established by John Sullivan Deas in 1873. Deas was a tinsmith by trade, part of the migration of blacks who arrived in British Columbia from California in the 1850s. He began working as a tinsmith, making cans for other salmon canners, and later became an owner.

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Plaque courtesy of the BC Labour Heritage Centre's project Plaques Around the Province. project