Jotal Fish Catch for this District in 1920 Nearly N-ine NGllion Dollars
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riot CATCH FOR 1926

The figures of the 1926 catch for this district are as follows:

American Halibut
Canadian Halibut
Canadian Salmon
American Salmon
Canadian Cod
American Cod. ........
SOLOS casera Cn
Flounders st
Canadian Herring
American Herring
Grabs ec eee wetness Pee
SPT DSS sees
Clams

TANTS 5 9 ai eee

20,579,500 lbs. Value $2,702,165.00
= ne 873,439.00
= = 5,016,242.00

86,646.00
6,469.00

“ - 11,942.00

ee ss 1,312.00

es os 70.00

= 21,034.00

- im 1,702.00

es : 1,064.00

es es 570,00

422 bbls = 1,266.00
ES 260,127.00

$8,984,038.00

Salmon canned in the District approx. 1,268,028 cases; represents about 103,000,000
Ibs., and value in manufactured state, $13,552,875.00 (approx.).

The 1925 value in raw state was $4,182,327.00,

$9,984,669.00.

and of canned salmon about

OF nteresting otem Poles Moear Prince Rupert

WO very fine Indian
totem poles are locat-
ed in Prince Rupert,
the one pictured here

was brought from Queen Char-
lotte Islands and is the crest of
the Edenshaw family. The pole
is over two hundred years old
and is called the “Grizzly Bear”
totem. The other is called the
“Wolf Crest” totem and former-
ly belonged to a Nishga Chief,
named Dauk, and stood in front
of his lodge at Gitlakdamix, on
the upper Naas River.

Along the line of the Cana-
dian National Railway there are
also some fine specimens of
totem poles. In 1925, the Can-
adian National Railways, the
Canadian Department of Indian
Affairs, the Parks branch of the
Department of the Interior and
the Victoria Memorial Museum,
took prompt action to preserve
the remaining totem poles in
Canada. Starting with the Gitk-
san Indian poles of the Skeena

Valley work was done in 1925
at Kitwanga. Here is now a
great out-of-doors museum of
totem poles, grave houses,
eaches and other objects of
Gitksan handiwork. This place
is not only of anthropological
and artistic interest but also a
great tourist attraction. There
are eighteen totem poles and
two totem figures at Kitwanga.
There are one hundred totem
poles all within fifteen miles of
the Canadian National Railway,
and available by automobile
from Hazelton, Kitwanga and
Usk, which are stations on the
railway. About forty-two can
be seen from the windows of
passing trains of the Canadian
National Railway, probably the
only line in the world from
which totem poles may be seen.
It will only be a matter of a few
years when this carving will be
a lost art as the younger gener-
ation have taken no interest in
the art of carving totem poles.