BC Field Trips

Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site

Address

12138 Fourth Avenue

Richmond

British Columbia

Canada

V7E3J1

Website

General Contact

Rachel Meloche

Education Programs Coordinator

Phone:

604 664 9261

E-Mail

Registration Details

Registration Methods:

Phone

E-Mail

Website

Payment Methods:

Cash

Cheque

Interac

VISA

MasterCard

Deposit:

Cancellation Policy:

Cancellation within 2 weeks of booking is subject to a $75 fee per program.

Deposit Comment:

Payment is required upon arrival and can be made by cheque, Visa, or Mastercard.

Other Registration Info:

Please include desired program, grade level, number of students, and email address in your message. We prefer bookings by the form on our website, but can answer questions about programs and availability by phone or email. Bookings are tentative until you have been sent confirmation. Most of our programs run 90 minutes and we can accommodate a maximum of 2 classes at once.

Program Contact

Name:

Rachel Meloche

Title:

Education Programs Coordinator

Phone:

604 664 9261

E-Mail:

education@gogcannery.org

Facility Information

Wheelchair Accessibility:

Yes

Food Services:

Kitchen Services:

Lunchroom:

Yes

Parking:

Yes

Public Transit:

Bus

Washrooms:

Yes

Our Trips

Sea to Me

In this engaging  hands-on program, discover the steps to canning salmon through story-time and puzzles. A scavenger hunt along the canning line helps students work cooperatively to follow the process of canned salmon from the ocean to their dinner plate. 

Discovery Tour

The Discovery Tour is adaptable for your youth educational group, and is designed to be modified for any groups with a variety of ages or a group for which there is no dedicated Education Program.

Modules available by request. Please indicate your learning outcomes in the comments field and we will help you design your program(s).

Salmon People: Coast Salish Fishing

This program introduces students to Indigenous Peoples of the West Coast and the importance of salmon in their lives. The program utilizes Indigenous-created resources from a variety of nations to inform a series of activities. Activities include: an activity about animals that introduces Indigenous worldviews; a discussion of salmon as a Cultural Keystone Species, serving important cultural and spiritual as well as subsistence purposes; a viewing of the film Salmon People, about the importance of salmon to the Cowichan; an examination of Indigenous fishing tools; and a conclusion covering contemporary Indigenous relationships to fish and fishing.  

Machines at Work

Students investigate how machines work together along a 1930s to 1950s salmon canning line, including a demonstration of the working machines. Using their knowledge of simple and complex machines, groups of students will each explore one complex machine in the Herring Reduction Plant and will present their interpretation of the machine to the rest of the class.

Cannery Stories

Early cannery workers faced discrimination based on race and gender inside and outside of the canneries. These workers fought that discrimination through various means, including letter writing, suing the government, volunteering in their communities, and acting as allies. Cannery Stories consists of a modified Canning Line tour specific to jobs the characters in the activity had, and a small-group activity to learn about one specific worker and their struggles.