Charles Henry Brown was a career naval officer whose service began as a Commissioned Carpenter in 1913. He served afloat including HMCS Shearwater and HMCS Rainbow in WWI and ashore; and in the rank of Shipwright Commander. He was awarded the Order of The British Empire in 1943 for his wartime work in organizing the Shipwright Branch of the Royal Canadian Navy.
William Fitzherbert Bullen (1857 - 1921), a former employee at Albion Iron Works in Victoria, established the British Columbia Marine Railway Company in Lang Cove at the eastern end of Esquimalt Harbour in 1893. He was the managing director of the firm which he sold to Sir Alfred Yarrow in 1914.
Established by Alfred Wallace in False Creek Vancouver in 1894 as a builder of small wooden fishing craft for the canneries. This enterprise subsequently moved to the north shore in 1905 and grew into the largest shipbuilding and repair company on the west coast. By 1985, the firm was a corporation which also owned the Yarrow’s Yard in Esquimalt. The corporation became Versatile Pacific Shipyards that year but this enterprise went bankrupt in 1992. A new firm, Vancouver Drydock, acquired the assets of the former Burrard Dry Dock Company that subsequently became part of the Seaspan Shipyards and are formally known as Vancouver Shipyards Company, Ltd.