cannery
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canneries
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noun
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Origin of cannery
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This year, he’s been sitting in on open mic nights at the Clausen Museum, where performers entertain in a room filled with old cannery gear and a taxidermied 126.5-pound king salmon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
He was the first member of his family to attend college, which he paid for by taking out student loans, landing work-study jobs and working summers in a salmon cannery in Cordova, Alaska.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2026
Dock workers unload frozen skipjack and yellowfin tuna from a ship in Bangkok, bound for the Thai Union cannery, one of the world’s largest tuna processors.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 26, 2024
The rooms, which got upgrades last year, were fine, but the resort — opened in 1987 on the site of a salmon cannery — was rough around the edges when I was there in October.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2023
All their belongings had been looted by townspeople and the Nazis, and now the government had taken over his father’s fish cannery.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
The shipbuilding pretty much came to an end, and the commercial fishing trade of some thousand vessels that once kept canneries working in high gear has moved elsewhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025
The plan was equally straightforward: Community-owned farms would feed everyone and fund additional industries, including apiaries, hatcheries, canneries, smithies, brickyards and even a film studio.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2023
While earning degrees in chemistry and pharmaceutical science at the University of Washington, she worked at fish canneries in Alaska during the summers.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023
Arthur was a horse trader, and while attending school, Smith worked with him — and in canneries and on farms — throughout her childhood.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
Cats there were, many of them, but they were so bloated with fish heads and guts from the canneries that they had long ago given up hunting.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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