Recent Examples on the WebThe first attempt to export lobster beyond local regions as a de facto delicacy came when canneries were established there in 1841.—The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024 The valley had large canneries where fruits were processed and canned daily.—Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024 My childhood home was less than a mile from these canneries.—Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024 The fish was from Kodiak Island, canned at the same cannery where Josh had grown up commercial fishing with his dad and where his dad had fished with his grandfather.—Laurel Braitman, Bon Appétit, 9 Jan. 2024 The canneries have long been replaced with hotels, restaurants and souvenir shops.—Julie Watson, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023 Glass fishing floats and authentic Japanese boxes for packing roe, salvaged from an Alaska cannery, also decorate the rooms.—Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023 When Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas was a boy in the 1980s, his grandmother would walk him and his brother to the store for ice cream before heading to her night shift at a local cannery.—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023 Cold Storage is his fictional Southeast Alaska town made up of boardwalks, fishing boats and a cannery, a bar and cafe, and a cast of oddball characters.—Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Jan. 2023
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