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The Bercut Richards cannery began operations in 1931.
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Sacbee.com, 5 Mar. 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
The plane’s fuselage and extra-long wing section were trucked separately from the cannery to Dutch Flats, where the aircraft was finally assembled and fine-tuned.
—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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Sacbee.com, 5 Mar. 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
The plane’s fuselage and extra-long wing section were trucked separately from the cannery to Dutch Flats, where the aircraft was finally assembled and fine-tuned.
—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 11 Mar. 2026.
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