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The Steves family is one of Richmond's first
founding families, after which the community of
Steveston is named. Manoah and Martha
Steves were the first settlers in the area, arriving
in 1877. They imported the first purebred
Holstein cattle into BC, established a dairy to
provide milk for the fledgling City of Vancouver
and were Western Canada's first seedsmen.
Born of Maude and Harold Sr., Harold and wife
Kathy still reside in the old Steves farmhouse,
built in 1917, on what is now an 11-acre
(45,000 m ) cattle farm surrounded by
residential 2development. Harold is a graduate of
the University of British Columbia with a BSc in
Agriculture.
A former Richmond
school teacher, Harold
operates the family
farm in Steveston with
his wife Kathy, raising
pure bred Belted
Galloway cattle. Harold also assists his son Jerry operate a
ranch in Cache Creek, B.C. Descended from a pioneer
Richmond farming family, he is very active in community life
in the Steveston area, and is particularly interested in the
preservation of farmland, heritagepreservation, and
environmental issues.
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