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Captain Frank E. Unwin was a British Columbia coast pilot.

British shipping company that operated passenger and cargo vessels between the United Kingdom and South Africa.

Once the biggest shipping line in the southern hemisphere, Union Steamship Company operated passenger liner between British Columbia, Australia, and New Zealand. In 1931. Union Steamship Company of New Zealand and Canadian Pacific Railway established a new jointly owned company, the Canadian Australasian Line Ltd. in cooperation with Canadian Pacific. Two New Zealand Union Steamship passenger liners were transferred to the new company that offered scheduled service from British Columbia to Australasia. This service was interrupted during WWII and ended in 1953.

Vancouver-based shipping company that operated passenger and freight vessels along the coast of British Columbia until 1956. Its assets were sold to Northland Navigation in 1959.

Major oil producer, exporter, and operator of oil tankers in 19th and 20th centuries. The company was established as the merger of three southern California oil companies. Union Oil merged with Chevron in 2005. The company's 8,088 gross ton Santa Maria grounded on Glimpse Reef off Dallas Road, Victoria in 1938 but was salvaged.