A sardine cannery opened the same year. San Diego's first large tuna cannery, the Pacific Tuna Canning Company, was founded in 1911. The first large tuna cannery, the Pacific Tuna Canning Company, was founded in 1911. A salmon cannery is a factory that commercially cans salmon. It contained a church, a school, a cannery, and a sawmill. Chinese immigrants came to Seattle to work as miners, cooks, railway laborers and cannery workers. The cannery (1994) and Britannia Shipyard (1991) received National Historic Site designations. He earned money to pay for his tuition by working at an Alaskan salmon cannery. Another attempt to operate a fish cannery led to closure in 1957. He traveled to Alaska to work in a cannery. Carol became the model for Mary Talbot in Steinbeck's novel "Cannery Row". Many patents followed the opening of the S. J. Seneca Cannery. The main bargaining chip was the superior sewage system built to handle cannery waste. Chinese crews were used again at the same cannery in 1887 and 1889. The first cannery was opened in 1954.