Mill Bay

Mill Bay (54˚59'00" 129˚54'00" N side of Nass Bay, W of the mouth of the Nass R, NE of Prince Rupert). Henry Croasdaile (see Croasdaile I) built a plant here in 1877 for processing eulachon, a small, oily fish much treasured by First Nation groups, who render it into a food condiment known as “grease.” The following year he built a sawmill, the earliest in the area, and in 1879 the first salmon cannery on Nass Bay. The plant was sold in 1889 and rebuilt by the BC Canning Co, then sold...

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