Steveston Telephone Exchange Heritage Building. In 1891 The New Westminister and Burrard Inlet Telephone Company installed Steveston's first telephone, by 1912 there were twelve subscribers and by 1922, one of the two exchanges in Richmond operated out of our building. Bill Rigby Memorial House (below).

The house is named after William Rigby who was the first secretary treasurer and welfare director of the United Fishermen's and Allied Worker's Union. Rigby was passionately devoted to the union and human betterment. He fought against racial, religious and political discrimination. He was the driving force behind achieving unemployment insurance, national health insurance, and worker's compensation for fishermen. Rigby also lobbied for safe and affordable housing. This building served as the UFAWU Head Office for nearly twenty years. The union played an important role in the lives of fishermen and cannery workers and in the history of Steveston. The union fought for standardized hours, wages and working conditions. Amidst racism and discrimination, the union made a formal recommendation to the Minister to grant fishing rights to Japanese fishermen returning to the community after their internment in World War II.
This building is now the new home of the Satori Integrative Health Centre located at 12004 No.1 Road in historic Steveston. It provides complementary and alternative therapies in collaboration with conventional medicine to clients interested in comprehensive integrative health care.

The Satori Integrative Health Centre was established by Dr. Sean Graham BSc DC and Danielle Aldcorn BSW MA in July 2002. The goal of the centre is to provide evidence-based conventional and alternative therapies to clients (both children and adults) suffering from chronic and difficult to treat conditions. The centre is designed with aesthetic healing principles in mind and acts as a resource and educational centre for clients looking for more information on their illness. The Satori Integrative Health Centre creates a healing client-centred environment that allows the practitioners enough time to truly understand the client's life circumstances and illness. We propose a revolutionary form of client-centred care that focuses on the contribution of both client and a team of health practitioners in the development of a treatment plan. This mutual partnership allows clients to take more responsibility for their health, which, in the long term will keep the client healthier and ultimately reduce the costs of healthcare.