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Arts & Culture
Tour the Old Cannery in Steveston
A cavernous 1894 salmon cannery on the Steveston waterfront, with modest admission, clattering machinery, and fish and chips on the dock after.
Arts & Culture
A cavernous 1894 salmon cannery on the Steveston waterfront, with modest admission, clattering machinery, and fish and chips on the dock after.
The Gulf of Georgia Cannery is a proper 1894 building on the Steveston waterfront, the kind of place that canned salmon by the millions and then just stopped, leaving all the giant clattering line machinery behind for you to walk past. That walk, through the plank floors of a building that once processed entire coastal seasons, is the kind of history that does not require effort. Admission is modest, and free in summer under the Canada Strong Pass, which you should absolutely take advantage of. The cannery drops you straight into Steveston village afterward, which makes the plan obvious: walk the boardwalk, watch fishing boats actually selling off the dock, split fish and chips with your feet hanging over the Fraser. History, fresh air and snacks. This order of operations holds up.
