Fairhaven’s shore had a long and enduring link with coastal Alaska through the Pacific American Fisheries salmon canning complex on the site now occupied by the Bellingham Cruise Terminal. During the 1940s, it was the largest salmon cannery in the world, with operations throughout coastal Alaska. The tile warehouse at the entrance to the passenger terminal complex, built in 1913, is the last remnant of the original warehouses and was part of an integrated compound that included a can and box factory, cannery, shipyard, housing for Chinese workers, and a by-products division at the entrance to Bellingham Bay on Eliza Island. At the height of the salmon season, each of PAF’s 18 canning lines could pack and seal 42,000 cans per day, for a peak daily output of 756,000 one-pound cans. From the original dock on this site, the pack was loaded onto ocean-going steamers bound for markets in Europe and the South Pacific. Built in 1889 as the Ocean Dock, it was the first ocean shipping facility in Whatcom County and connected the small settlement of Fairhaven with ports down the coast and abroad.