How did the social demographics of settlers and the choice of industry affect the development of Canadian West Coast towns at the turn of the century?
Why Steveston and Duncan specifically?
I chose Steveston and Duncan specifically because they are both fairly close to each other geographically, were founded around the same time, and developed in wildly different directions before eventually turning into tourist heritage towns.

Background Information
Steveston:
Steveston was one of the original settlements of Richmond. When Richmond was incorporated in 1879, the planners divided the Municipality into 3 wards; Steveston was in ward C.
Steveston started out as a Caucasian village, but that all changed when Gihei Kuno visited Steveston in 1885. He saw the hordes of salmon and immediately went back to Japan to recruit some villagers. The first settlers from Japan were bachelors. In 1898 there were only 3 women in Steveston. However, as time went on, Japanese women began to join the men in the settlement, through the arrangement of 'picture brides'. Men would receive a picture of a woman their parents deemed suitable. He would then write back if he accepted or declined, and if he accepted, the wife would travel to Steveston and step on the shore a married woman. …show more content…
They mostly outcompeted both the Caucasian and First Nations fishermen in the area. There was already a Chinese community there, made up of former railroad builders who were then employed by the canneries.
The Asian immigrants went to Canada to make enough money to send to their families back home. However, the $500 head tax forced them to stay in Canada to pay it