Discovering British Columbia · Drawing 11 of 32
Inside the Old Cannery
Steveston
In Steveston, teams once prepared fish for canning. Machines helped, but women and men did much of the work by hand. Today, this building is a museum.
Did you know?
The Gulf of Georgia Cannery was built in 1894.
Look together
Which clues in the drawing show that fish was canned here?
An idea to try
Count the tins and imagine their route through the factory.
For the adult reading along
A little more to discover
The cannery records the West Coast fishing industry and the work of people from diverse backgrounds. This simplified museum display is shown at rest. It does not explain every actual stage of the canning process.
Sources and illustration notes (2)
Simplified interpretation for colouring. Settings and people may be composed. Details, distances and proportions are not a measured record of the place.
These links lead to other websites. Explore them with an adult. References identify the institution and the related lesson; some linked pages are in French.
- Parks Canada: Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic SitePlace, history or habitat described on this page.
- Gulf of Georgia Cannery — From Tides to Tins: FillingIndigenous and Japanese women, later also European women, filled the cans by hand; filling machines were not widely used until the 1960s.
Page prepared on October 3, 2026. Illustrations are simplified for colouring.
This drawing is from the book My British Columbia to Colour
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