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Cruising to Alaska became popular in the 1880s, so the Pacific Coast Steamship Company began to use the ship for "excursion" cruises in the summer. Ancon made three round trips to Alaska in 1884 under the command of Captain James Carroll. [30] In March 1887, the Pacific Coast Steamship Company reassigned Ancon permanently to the Alaska trade. [31]
Wards Cove Packing Company was a cannery located in the community of Ward Cove, on the northern outskirts of the larger city of Ketchikan in the U.S. state of Alaska.The original Wards Cove Cannery was established in 1928, [1] on Ward Cove and operated several Alaskan salmon canneries, employing about 200 people during the peak season. [2]
In 1916, Alaska Packers Association, Griffin & Skelley, Central California Canneries, J. K. Armsby Co., and California Fruit Canners Association [4] merged to form California Packing Corporation (CalPack), [5] a company involved in canned fruits and vegetables and Hawaiian pineapple, and later reorganized as Del Monte Foods after the name of ...
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Print/export Download as PDF ... An enlargeable map of the boroughs and census areas of the state of Alaska. List of boroughs in Alaska. ... June 3, 1942 – August ...
The climate of Southcentral Alaska is subarctic. Temperatures range from an average high of 65 °F (18 °C) in July to an average low of 10 °F (−12 °C) in December. The hours of daylight per day vary from 20 hours in June and July to 6 hours in December and January. [3] The coastal areas consist of temperate rainforests and alder shrublands.
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Bits and Pieces of Alaskan History: Published over the years in From Ketchikan to Barrow, a department in the Alaska Sportsman and Alaska magazine – v.1. 1935-1959 / v.2. 1960-1974. Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0882401560. McBeath, Jerry et al. The Political Economy of Oil in Alaska: Multinationals vs. the State (2008)