Gladys Young Blyth, curator of the North Pacific Cannery Village Museum at Port Edward, B.C. until 1986, has spent many years researching and writing about the fishing industry. Born in 1920 in Squamish, she grew up in Bella Coola. She met her husband Alex Blyth while working at Namu Cannery in 1940. The Blyths had eight children. Despite a busy family life, Gladys worked on the staff of the Prince Rupert Daily News and helped found and publish three Port Edward volunteer newspapers. She has written a number of articles and stories for magazines and has supplied photographs for many publications. She wrote and published A History of Port Edward. In 1989, Gladys Young Blyth was honoured as British Columbia's Senior Citizen of the Year of her key role in founding the North Pacific Cannery National Historical Site. With the publication of Salmon Canneries--British Columbia North Coast she has further contributed to the preservation of our coastal heritage.