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Batoche | Gulf
of Georgia Cannery |
Signal Hill |
Craigellachie | Fur
Trade Lachine |
National
Battlefields Park | Vimy
Ridge | Dieppe Located at the mouth
of the Fraser River, the Gulf of Georgia Cannery
represents a way of life still with us but in a greatly
altered form. The Salmon fishery in British Columbia
still catches millions of wild salmon a year but the
labour intensive methods of processing have been
replaced by machines and computers.
The cannery brings us
back to a time when the fishing vessels plied the waters
of the Georgia Straits in wait of the massive catches of
salmon returning to the mouth of the Fraser to travel
upstream and spawn. The Gulf of Georgia cannery was only
one of many canneries that processed, canned and shipped
the precious salmon around the world on the fast clipper
ships and later on the merchant steam vessels.
The museum takes you
through the entire process of production of the canned
salmon with many incredibly realistic exhibits
incorporated into the original sections of the building
that they are meant to represent. Located in Steveston
in the municipality of Richmond, you could easily spend
1/2 to an entire day in the museum. A way of life
preserved on the original site.
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