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Salmon trade ties strain as packers seek control
MacRae faces cannery chiefs and Robbin Steele Senior over salmon pricing and outlet contracts. New rules allow any British birth citizen to fish, threatening monopolies. competition spreads as Northwest Cold Storage seeks volume, while Abbott and Betty Gower scene foreshadow conflicts.
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British Columbia
Island
Leutenant
North Vancouver
Dominion
Jack MacRae
MacRae
Vancouver
Daily Papers
McRae
Co'are
Tom
Harry
Robbin Steele
Bond
FacRae
Robbin-Steele
Tor
Fraser River
BiacRae
MicRae
Fraser
Folly Bay
Gower
Robbin—Steele
Robbie Steele
Abbott
Simon
Gowver
Robbin Stee
Robsie—Steele
Bellingham
Asherman
Comd
Stubby Abbott
MacRee
Hurley
Northwest Cold Storage
Northwest
MaxRae
Sub Rosa
Robbin-Steele MacRae
Steele
Stubby
Granada
Jack
Loth
Stone House
West End
Betty Gower
Etta Robbin- Steele
Nelly
Abbott Pergola
Horace A. Gower
Reo
Horace Gower
Betty
Betta Robbin-Steele
Mac Ree
Nelly Abbott