Steveston Village

Steveston is located on the Strait of Georgia, immediately east of Richmond on the Lower Mainland of BC, 15 miles (24 km) south of Vancouver . 

Steveston Village is better known as a place to walk, enjoy sun and sea food, there have a special history, in past there have a Japanese fish cans factory, now the factory have already became a museum.

Steveston village is a historic salmon canning centre in the southwest corner of Richmond, at the mouth of the south arm of the Fraser River. The flat, fertile island began attracting settlers in the 1860s.

Steveston, British Columbia. (2007). retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steveston,_British_Columbia 

lots of people like walking dog there.

there have a beautiful flower store.

many delicious sea food restraint.

a small sea food market

many people park their ships there, not only fishing ships but also private yacht.

inside of the restraint

beautiful view

the old Japanese fish can factory.

The village is named for Manoah Steves, who arrived with his family in 1878 and began a dairy farm. His son Herbert actually developed the townsite, which became Steveston in 1889. Salmon canning began on the river in 1871; by the 1890s there were 45 canneries, about half at Steveston.

Each summer large numbers of Japanese, Chinese, First Nations, and Euro-Canadian fishers and cannery workers descended on the village. The fishery also supported a significant boatbuilding and shipbuilding industry. Sailing ships from around the world visited the harbour to take on cargoes of canned salmon.

The peak of civic aspirations was pre-WWI, when Steveston was promoted as Salmonopolis, a supposed rival of Vancouver, but canning activity slowly declined and finally ceased in the 1990s. The Gulf of Georgia Cannery, built in 1894 and at one time the largest plant in BC, was reopened as a national historic site in 1994.

Japanese Canadians formed a large part of Steveston's population; their internment during WWII was a serious blow to the community, though some of the internees returned when they were allowed.

Post-war Steveston developed along with Richmond into a residential suburb for Vancouver as farmland was gobbled up for housing. Since the 1970s the community, which remains an active fishing port, has developed its heritage character and its waterfront to attract business and tourism.

Steveston, British Columbia. (2007). retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steveston,_British_Columbia