Terra Nova Canneries

Can you see the wooden posts, or pilings, near the shoreline? They are the remains of a cannery dock. The Terra Nova and Alliance canneries were built here during a turn-of-the-century boom in the BC fishing industry which saw more than 20 canneries constructed in Richmond.

The arrival of cannery workers transformed the quiet farming community into an industrial hotspot. Workers butchered and packed cans of BC salmon, which were sold around the world. Fishing boats and the company steamer, the Terra Nova, tied up at the cannery docks.