PANORAMIC VIEW OF CARLISLE PACKING COMPANY LOCATED AT VILLAGE POINT ON LUMMI ISLAND

The Carlisle Packing Company was originally known as the Lummi Island Packing Company. It was a salmon cannery established in 1896 at Village Point. This photo originally appeared in the 1914 edition of The Fisherman’s Yearbook.

CARLISLE PACKING COMPANY LOCATED AT VILLAGE POINT ON LUMMI ISLAND

Also the Carlisle Packing Company at Village Point. Note that the buildings are painted a dark color in this photo. Probably red…a popular color for canneries along the shores of Puget Sound and the Georgia Strait.

The cement blockhouse down on the beach at Village Point is a remnant of this cannery operation..

Label for Friday Brand red sockey salmon packed by Carlisle Packing Company, circa 1925-1929 It was found in Mac Granger's old chicken barn in early 1980s. Details at WasHington Rural Heritage

One disputed feature of this operation was the use of fish traps, a highly efficient method of catching salmon which became a giant controversy here and in Alaska where the traps sometimes caught thousands more fish than they could possibly process. The excess dead fish were simply dumped back into the sea.

Lummi Bay Packing Company located at Lane Spit on Lummi Island.

The Lummi Bay Packing Company (later Beach Packing Company) operated from 1911 to 1946 and was remodeled from a shingle mill located on Lane Spit.

Flobel Brand canned Puget Sound ‘Cohoe’ salmon, packed by Lummi Bay Packing Co., circa 1915. Details at Washington Rural Heritage

Nooksack Packing Company located at Sunrise Cove on Lummi Island

Around 1919 a third cannery, The Nooksack Packing Company, began operating at Sunrise Cove on the island. This location later became Echo Lodge in the 1940s.

This Echo Lodge brochure was scrapbooked by Peggy Aiston in 1944 on her first visit to Lummi Island. Peggy Aiston would go on to catalog an amazing history of Lummi Island and contributed a column of historical vignettes to every issue of the Lummi Island Newsletter (now The Tome) for fifteen years from 1978 to 1993.