The Cannery Art and Artefacts
There are a great many artifacts at Good Hope and the most important of all is our lodge itself.The Good Hope Cannery is an authentic piece of west coast history, built from the 90-foot long knotless fir timbers known as British Columbia toothpicks. The lodge, its contents and surroundings are remarkably intact, from the boiler that heated the building and fired the equipment, to the ice house – now our fish-cleaning room – to the canning line and retorts, the ovens that processed tins of salmon. We are slowly cataloging all the treasures in our living museum – the gill netters, old skiffs, pulleys from the machine shop, nets, and the famous old “East Hope Engines”, the so-called One-Lungers that worked extensively on the coast. They are all reminders of this lost era, the remains of everyday life at Good Hope Cannery.
