Kildonan is an unincorporated community in the Alberni Inlet-Barkley Sound region of the west coast of southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

[1] Adjacent to Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, the locality is by road and ferry about 120 kilometres (75 mi) southwest of Port Alberni.

Packing in 1906,[5] or soon after,[2] owners, Peter and John Wallace, renamed the cannery after their Scottish hometown of Kildonan.

[3] Reorganized as Wallace Fisheries in 1911,[6] the company began a complete rebuild, and added a large cold storage[7] in 1913.

[3] Such expansions increased the demand for seasonal workers, and the accommodation of bunkhouses for single men and cottages for families.

[10] That year, the cannery installed[3] a Hiller Reduction Unit for manufacturing oil and fertilizer from this species.

[13] The Great Depression slashed production, leaving only a few major canneries like Kildonan and Nootka operating on the west coast.

[16] During the 1937–1941 drive to unionize the Vancouver Island canneries, the leading edge of the organization campaign was based at Kildonan.

[27] By the late 1910s, Kildonan was a port of call on the three times monthly Victoria–Port Alice Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) coastal steamboat run,[28] which remained largely unchanged until the early 1950s.

[37] Nowadays, Lady Rose Marine Services operates the three times weekly Port Alberni–Kildonan–Bamfield–Port Alberni run.