Alaska Canneries

Filipino "Alaskeros," found work in salmon canneries, “kanarya” in Alaska during the summer and worked along the west coast during other seasons. Alaska was a place to make “quick money,” never “easy money. Cannery work lasted about 2 months and as many as 9000 Filipino men worked at one time during peak salmon canning seasons.

Fred Cordova, Filipinos: Forgotten Asian Americans (Dubuque, IA: Kendall/ Hunt, 1983