Curator's note | In the 1930s commercial fish processing plants were established in several Northern Saskatchewan communities, including La Ronge, Buffalo Narrows and Big River to prepare whitefish, pike, walleye and lake trout. By the mid 1960s more than 6 million kg of fish were being processed. Everett Baker (1893-1981) was employed from the late 1930s to the 1970s as a field man by the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. In conjunction with his work he travelled widely in the province promoting co-op enterprises. He became a self-taught master of colour photography and produced thousands of colour slides and some silent films documenting farm and rural life. |
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Title | Filleting Whitefish at Beaver Lake Filleting Plant |
Date | [21 June 1946] |
Physical extent | 1 slide : colour ; 35 mm |
Scope and content | A slide showing employees filleting whitefish at the Beaver Lake Filleting Plant, fifteen miles east of Flin Flon. |
Repository | University of Saskatchewan Archives |
Fonds/collection | Saskatchewan Wheat Pool fonds | Credits | Baker, Everett |
Retrieval information | Accession 2008-032; Series 10: Photographs and Slides, Loon Lake NW to Lac la Ronge folder 6; slide number 34 |
Occupation(s) |
Food industry Fisheries (commercial) |
Theme(s) |
Agriculture & Food Industry |
Database ID | 36531 |