FAIRBANKS, AK – The NN Cannery History Project in collaboration with The University of Alaska Fairbanks produce ten interviews that best speak to work activities associated with the cannery’s historic structures to create a “Histories of Fisheries and Canneries in Alaska” Project Jukebox. 

ANCHORAGE, AK –Naknek student filmmakers--Kaeli Pulice and Ashlynn Young--have been accepted into the Anchorage International Film Festival and Alaska Teen Media Institute annual Youth Film Festival for their entry, “Cannery Art.”

One hundred and thirty-two years ago, the Bristol Bay commercial fishery began on the shores of the Nushagak River when the first cannery went into operation and canned a little more than 4,000 salmon.

The NN Cannery History Project, through the State of Alaska’s Office of History and Archeology, will receive federal funding as part of an effort by the National Park Service to shine a spotlight on the contributions of underrepresented communities to our nation’s history. It is one of thirteen projects across the country awarded funding, totaling $500,000. 

<NN> Cannery History Project was just awarded an NEH Creating Humanities Grant to revive, reunite and raise awareness for the multi-cultural working community that has existed in canneries throughout the Pacific slope for over a century.

The deadly influenza pandemic known as the Spanish Flu, killed millions of people world wide but hit Alaska particularly hard.

Trident Seafoods and Tundra Vision were awarded a grant from the National Endowments for Humanities for the NN Cannery History Project that aims to revive, reunite and raise awareness for the multi-cultural community that has existed in canneries through the Pacific slope for over a century.