"Visit Historic Steveston Village" Steveston Tip by spartan

In the late 1800s, Steveston Village was the busiest fishing port in the world with fourteen fish canneries packing over 195,000 cases of salmon each year. Every summer, the harvest of salmon would see the community’s population grow by the thousands as Natives, Chinese and Japanese labourers arrived seeking seasonal work. This hard working, hard living community had a rough and tumble lifestyle of gambling, opium-smoking and busy bordellos. Now over 100 years later, Steveston has evolved into a picturesque working fishing village that comes to life with plenty to see and do. Home to almost 1,000 commercial fishing vessels, Steveston is the largest commercial fishing harbour in Canada. Along the waterfront fishing boats and freighters ply the waters of the Strait of Georgia. At Fishermen’s Wharf, fish boat operators sell fresh salmon, crab, halibut and shrimp directly from dockside.

Website: http://www.stevestonivillage.com