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February 2024 by Mike Loehndorf
History is just amazing here
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December 2023 by Karen S
Highly recommend! It's a gem of a museum and historic site. I had no expectations as I didn't do any research on it. Was just in the area and wanted something to do. It is so immersive with the original machinery in place. Looks like they're in the middle of updating the exhibits. I appreciated the acknowledging of the racist past associated with the cannery, salmon fishing and BC's history in general, though I'm sure there's a lot more that can be said about it. We spent about an hour there. Highly recommend.
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October 2023 by Michael Gray
Such a fantastic place to visit!
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October 2023 by Tim M
Cool place!
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September 2023 by Catherine Evashuk
Really interactive
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September 2023 by Ella Lin
Friendly staff and very well-maintained and meaningful exhibits. A hidden gem in Richmond.
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August 2023 by Ian Brown
Fascinating picture of the history of canning fish.
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August 2023 by Nicky Jeune
This ended up be being a really great and interesting experience. Highly recommend going on the included tours. Our guides Judy and Mackenzie were fantastic and really brought the museum to life. They are dressed as workers would have been then and they shared what the experience of working at the cannery was like and also turned on some of the machinary that you likely won't see functional elsewhere. Their sharing of all the little unique historical tidbits about why things look like they do like such as why you can still see fish scales in the ceiling was a favorite part of the museum experience for me. Took around 1.5hrs. You could see it in less time without the tours but I think you'd be missing out.
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August 2023 by Franks CHOW
The whole factory for you to explore!Steam engines, boilers, oil compressors,production lines and more!And many interesting guided tour every half or an hour. Absolutely worth it. Also know much about fishing and its products like cans and oil.
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June 2023 by Yuan Yuan
There's something special about a museum housed in a historic site, and being surrounded by factory equipment in the factory itself. We were lucky enough to be the only guests on a tour, and Lucy did a great job of walking us through the cannery, explaining the canning process, and most importantly telling us the stories of the different peoples who had worked there. Hearing about how jobs and wages were strongly segregated by ethnicity and gender was fascinating. Highly recommend to anybody with a modicum of interest in history, factories, people, or salmon!
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June 2023 by Carl Peng (Carl_P)
Visit there at 3-4 pm on May 31st, 2023. Great place. Exciting exhibits in mint condition with a group of knowledgeable on-site tour guides. We had a good time when walking around.The gift shop is lovely but I can’t find too many of this cannery's own souvenir.A big down for me is I was there for the tourism challenge. I used my phone to mark down the answers because there is no pen & paper. Not a problem at all until the staff suspected I got the answers from someone else by text. Even though I explained, the staff still asked me another question out of the challenge trying to prove I was cheating. Which is so disrespectful to a peer in the tourism field. (I am glad I know the answer because I enjoyed the visit, I read everything carefully)
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May 2023 by B Suchaya
They keep all old equipments like the same. I like how they educated us from room to another room. Feeling like looking how this factory had run their business. Great job and nice staffs. Bought a can of their fish but haven’t tried yet.
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October 2022 by crazy cupcake
To understand the fish canning process, one must come down to the cannery and walk through this part of history. The Cannery has been presented in a wonderful way. You will learn how the process was done.
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September 2022 by Jonathan Polak
A hidden gem. Great for kids to see on a rainy day! The technological improvements in the operations of canned food are very well depicted. The federal government funds this place so the staffing is excellent and place is meticulously maintained
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September 2022 by Andrew Sanders
We visited the cannery on a rainy day while and had a pleasant time. There was a lot of self guided information which was good so people could go through at their own pace. We didn’t look into the times for tours ahead and ended up getting there during a middle of the day when there was a pretty large break on the scheduled tours. We hung around and was able to watch the canning machine run which was a definite highlight. If you’re planning a visit try and line up a time to attend a tour or two.
