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Hoonah, Alaska 99829

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Part of the cannery museum

Hoonah Packing Company Cannery openen in 1912 as a salmon cannery

Inside the restored cannery

Salmon cannery history

Much of the restored cannery building now contains shops

Looking across from the restaurant deck

We learned the five types of salmon often from various guides

John heads to the deck area

Remains of some of the former piers at the cannery business

A surviving pier

Looking towards the few private residences on teh site

To the left is the deck for the restaurant

This was the ladder to and from the 'beach'

Part of the old cannery

Atmosphere at the cannery

1953 was the last year that Icy Strait Salmon Company operated as a full-fledged canning operation then it became a maintenance base for the salmon fishing fleet

Some of the labels from the former cannery

There are still a few private residences on site

"Keet" is the Tlingit word for orca, and at Icy Strait Point, Alaska, it refers to a large bronze sculpture of an orca created by artist Robert Wyland and gifted to the Huna Totem Corporation

Kéet Plaza sign

There is a second gondola system from the base of the mountain to the cannery site

Visiting the historic site

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