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Johnston held this job at East Point.

The cans which came from Windsor Fishers in Charlottetown had to be lined with this parchment or wax—like paper which was al- ready cut into the rigt shape at the factory.45 One person states:

Just like a little sheet of paper and you just turned it around the can and just tucked it right in and when it was filled up with the

meat in, you just put the pickle on and turned down the lining and just made a sealer, right over it. The didn't have the liner in it (like they do today . (There was) a certain percentage 44 of salt and water in the. pickle. ‘ . . --

H The packers had a hard job and they had to be experienced to be fast. Following is how they filled the half-pound cans? There were five tails to the can and they you put the arm meat in the center, and then you'd layer them across on top part of it, back to -

back. It made a lovely pack. They never had any, as far as Johnston's went, anything turned 45 -

down. The person who lined the cans handed them to the sealer. ‘_ The sealing machine was driven by steam. After sealing the cans, the sealer also had to put the cans in the retart for two to three minutes in order to pressurize the cans so they did not have to be rei‘ridgerated.46 The cans ”of lobsters were:

Put into a retart and have to stay in

there so many minutes and come out.

Turn cold Water over cans for well

another twelve to fifteen minutes and

they you had to pack them into boxes. 4.7

They must have been shipped by train.

The other types of odd jobs in the factory were usually

done when time permitted or necessity required them to be done.

The men cleaned the tables and inside the" factory. "Everything had to be cleaned. Everything was; sanitized. The tables, everything

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