After you've done the cannery, hit Steveston's lovely waterfront boardwalk – complete with art installations evoking the area's bustling fishing sector – and within 15 minutes you'll stroll into the area's other national historic site. Not as slick as the cannery, it's nevertheless a fascinating complex of creaky old sheds housing dusty tools, boats and reminders of the region's maritime past. Check out the preserved Murakami House , where a large Japanese family lived before being unceremoniously interned during the war. Make sure you ask the volunteers plenty of questions: they have some great stories to tell.
