Id first heard of Namu through scientific papers. Its sheltering cove at the important junction of Fitz Hugh Sound and Burke Channel was probably habitable as early as 13,500 ago. The sea was lower then. What today is Queen Charlotte Sound, to the north and west, was a coastal plain of lakes and streams where a living could be made. The earliest archaeological evidence dates human settlements here to 9,700 years BP, or before present. Estimating past populations is an inexact science, but more people certainly lived here seasonally prior to European contact than do now. Take a tour of a ghost cannery with one of the last three full-time residents of Namu. As a modern ruin this place had never interested me, until I see it. Holy cow. The weathered grey profiles of several large buildings line the back of the bay. Moving closer, Humchitt maneuvers the Shellfish I along the crumbling waterfront of a former townsite. Namus first European settlers arrived in 1893. They built a fish cannery here and a sawmill. By its modern peak, around 1970, Namu was one of the largest of its kind on the coast, with 3,500 people working on shore and another 1,500 crewing fishing boats. shaybo-therisingtide.blogspot/2012/10/bcs-enduring-central-coast-first-in.html
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