Build a piece of Steveston’s fishing history. This 418-piece kit recreates the Silver Ann, the last wooden gillnetter built at what is now Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site. It uses genuine LEGO elements and includes full building instructions.
The Silver Ann was launched in 1969 for George Osaka, a Steveston fisherman, and named for his silver wedding anniversary. She was built by Sadajiro Asari at the Richmond Boat Builders shop, using a Japanese technique that planks the hull before fitting the ribs, the reverse of the usual Western method. Osaka fished her for fifteen years. After years of neglect, the City of Richmond acquired the boat and restored her between 2005 and 2009. Today she is moored at Britannia Shipyards, a working reminder of the Japanese Canadian boatbuilders who shaped Steveston’s waterfront.
The kit was designed by Peter Grant, a Steveston resident known locally as Richmond’s “Lego Man.” For more than a decade Peter has recreated the community’s heritage buildings and vessels brick by brick, from the Steveston Museum and Post Office to a 55,000-piece model of the Gulf of Georgia Cannery. Peter assembles each kit himself in small batches. Read more about Peter and his work: https://historicsteveston.ca/news/peter-grant-lego/
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