Cannery demolition has “nothing” to do with new freeway
Posted July 11, 2011 2:22 am.
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DELTA (NEWS 1130)- A group opposed to the construction of the South Fraser Perimeter road claims an historic cannery and First Nations burial site will be destroyed if it goes ahead.
Richelle Giberson says demolition has already begun on the Glenrose cannery which will also impact the archaeological site.”No matter where you stand on the either of those archaeology sites, there won’t be a place that you can stand that you won’t see or hear the freeway. Every single square inch of those sites is going to be impacted by the road.”
The cannery was built in 1896, and was the last cannery on the Delta side of the Fraser River.
Numerous First Nations human remains and old fishing and hunting equipment have been found on the land beneath or near the cannery.
But Jeff Freer who oversees the new freeway project says demolition has nothing to do with them. He tells News1130, “the cannery project is part of the Port of Metro Vancouver project and nothing to do with South Fraser.”
Freer says the the cannery is separated from the construction by railroad tracks, and is not on land, but on pilings in the water. He also maintains that no materials or construction equipment are being housed in the area that are being used for the new freeway.
