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Without a buyer for the cannery in Modesto, which employed up to 1,800 people including seasonal workers, the cooperative lacks the capacity to buy, can and market all the fruit soon to grow from the blooming peach orchards.
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Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 26 Feb. 2026
Once a center of fur trading and canneries, Astoria is located at the mouth of the Columbia River, close to the Pacific Ocean.
—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2026
Ryan and Mahoney’s team took over a vacant former cannery — at least one wall of which remains on the grounds of the Solar Turbines plant — and completed the build within Lindbergh’s 60-day timeline.
—Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
There, Rauff worked as the manager of a crab cannery in Patagonia, and apparently as an interrogator in one of Pinochet’s torture centers.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2025
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Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 26 Feb. 2026
Once a center of fur trading and canneries, Astoria is located at the mouth of the Columbia River, close to the Pacific Ocean.
—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2026
Ryan and Mahoney’s team took over a vacant former cannery — at least one wall of which remains on the grounds of the Solar Turbines plant — and completed the build within Lindbergh’s 60-day timeline.
—Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
There, Rauff worked as the manager of a crab cannery in Patagonia, and apparently as an interrogator in one of Pinochet’s torture centers.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2025
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“Cannery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cannery. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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