Jotal Fish Catch for this District in 1920 Nearly N-ine NGllion Dollars C(O

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.