Keywords: Fish canning
Item 26700
Columbian Canning Plant, Lubec, ca. 1912
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1912 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Item 27119
Seacoast Canning Company, Lubec, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1920-11-01 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Early Fish Canneries in Brooklin
By the 1900s, numerous fish canneries began operating in Center Harbor, located within the Brooklin community. For over thirty years, these plants were an important factor in the community.
Exhibit
Women at the turn of the 20th century were increasingly involved in paid work outside the home. For wage-earning women in the Old Port section of Portland, the jobs ranged from canning fish and vegetables to setting type. A study done in 1907 found many women did not earn living wages.
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"At least two of them were part of the Seacoast Canning cartel: Columbian Canning and the firm of Mawhinney and Ramsdell. Perhaps Union was also."
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture
"… Industry.) Challenges Burnham and Morrill Canning Factory at Center Bridge The Sandy River has flooded the Burnham and Morrill canning…"
Story
Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall
Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.
