Steveston was originally a small town near Vancouver, British Columbia, but has since been absorbed into the city of Richmond, British Columbia, a community in the Greater Vancouver Regional District.

Steveston village was a historic salmon canning centre at the mouth of the south arm of the Fraser River. It is located on the southwest tip of Lulu island, the large majority of which is within the boundaries of the city of Richmond. The village is named for Manoah Steves, who arrived with his family in 1878. The most southwestern tip of this southwestern suburb contains Garry Point Park, one of few parks in the area with suitable wind and space for kites to be flown.

Steves' son Herbert actually developed the townsite, which became Steveston in 1889. Salmon canning began on the river in 1871; by the 1890s there were 45 canneries, about half at Steveston.

Each summer large numbers of Japanese, Chinese, First Nations, and Euro-Canadian fishers and cannery workers descended on the village, joining a growing year-round settlement. The fishery also supported a significant boatbuilding and shipbuilding industry. Sailing ships from around the world visited the harbour to take on cargoes of canned salmon.

The peak of civic aspirations was pre-WWI, when Steveston was promoted as Salmonopolis, a supposed rival of Vancouver, but canning activity slowly declined and finally ceased in the 1990s. The Gulf of Georgia Cannery , built in 1894 and at one time the largest plant in British Columbia, was reopened as a national historic site in 1994, and remains open today, recently given an award for Canada's best historic site.

Japanese Canadians formed a large part of Steveston's population; their internment during WWII was a serious blow to the community, though some of the internees returned when they were allowed and a sizable Japanese Canadian community still exists.

Post-war Steveston developed along with Richmond into a residential suburb for Vancouver as farmland was gobbled up for housing. Since the 1970s the community, which remains an active fishing port, has developed its heritage character and its waterfront to attract business and tourism. It has been used as a movie locale often -- up until recent reductions due to encroaching development, the loss of the 'fishing village' feelings of the area, and the upsurge in the value of the Canadian dollar versus the US dollar.