Celtic Shipyards

My first job was delivering the Kerrisdale Courier, which became the Vancouver Courier before ceasing operations a couple years ago. My second job was caulking fishing boats at Celtic Shipyards at the southern end of Blenheim Street.

Today's Globe features a story by Kerry Gold concerning a redevelopment proposal for the former Celtic site. Here's a paragraph from that article, in the words of Roy Uyeda (above, second from left), who was born in Celtic Cannery in 1933:

“We took our boat across the river to parts of Sea Island to trade with the Chinese farmers there, and we would take some salmon and trade it with them, and buy corn and apples. I remember the Indigenous people coming around and they sold Cowichan sweaters and heavy socks, and the Japanese fishermen would buy them. They helped. We were not strangers with one another.”