STEVESTON
30 minutes south of Vancouver, on the southwestern shore of Richmond, sits Steveston at the mouth of the Fraser River.
For thousands of years before colonization, it was the Musqueam of the Coast Salish People who lived in this region with the area being turned into a frontier seaport by William Herbert Steves in 1889. William's father Manoa Steves was the town's namesake. Manoah Steves arrived here with his family around 1878 from New Brunswick.
By the turn of the twentieth century, Steveston was renowned as the busiest fishing port in the world, with fifteen salmon canneries, six hotels, numerous saloons and gambling dens, as well as up to fourteen windjammers simultaneously loading salmon into cans destined for markets around the world.
As a working fishing village you can buy fresh (and scrumptious seafood right off the dock, and as a heritage site since 1960, Steveston has an old worldy aesthetic which has driven TV production to the area, with TV shows such as 'Supernatural' and 'Once Upon a Time in America' having been filmed there.
