Gulf Of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site

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    12138 4th Ave, Steveston
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    bus: 98 B-Line from Burrard Station, transfer to bus 402 at Richmond Centre/98 B-Line from Burrard Station, transfer to402 at Richmond Centre

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Lonely Planet review

Once you've perused the boats hawking the day's fresh catch, Steveston's main attraction is the old-school cannery, now transformed into an excellent industrial heritage museum that explores the sights and sounds (and smells) of the region's bygone era of labour-intensive fish processing.

Most of the machinery remains - polished and cleaned of its permanent film of blood and fish oil - and there's an evocative focus on the people who used to work here before the plant closed in 1979. You'll hear recorded testimonies from old workers percolating through the air like ghosts and see large black-and-white blow-ups of some of the staff who spent their days immersed in entrails in order to roll thousands of cans down the production line.