Steveston
Historic fishing village with a working harbour, net lofts, and a former salmon cannery museum on the Fraser River.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Steveston in Vancouver traces the Japanese Canadian fishing community that built this village on the Fraser River, once shipping millions of pounds of salmon a year and forming the country's second-largest Japanese settlement outside Vancouver's own Japantown. You'll hear about the hospital and fishermen's benevolent society they founded, and the court battle they came within one ruling of winning, before the guide turns to what happened here in the spring of 1942. Look for the net lofts and packing houses still standing along the shoreline as you listen.
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