A project connecting Steveston Village to Garry Point via an interpretive walk festooned with fishing facts and activities is nearing launch in Richmond BC.
Fisher’s Walk, a project partnering Tourism Richmond and the Steveston Harbour Authority, will lead pedestrians from the Gulf of Georgia Cannery through to the park in the city’s southwest.
Local wayfinding/exhibition design group Lost and Found Studio put together the interpretive signage elements of the project, which will officially launch soon.
With elements like painted ropes on the road, showing kids how to tie knots as they travel through thre working harbour, and fun facts and history of the village going from its early days to now, the project fills a space that, historically, has been a ‘fun gap’ in any walk around the village.
The largest ‘small craft harbour’ in Canada, Steveston has long been a tourist draw, but the walk from Brittania Shipyards in the east, through the town toward the dike paths of Garry Point has been interrupted by what previously amounted to a ‘back alley’ through which working vehicles would dodge pedestrians.
The intent fo the Fisher’s Walk project is to remedy that, add a little fun that keeps kids paying attention, embraces education about the present day and memories of those days past, and continues on from where the cannery ends.
More information can be found in the video below.
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