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Shipyard established with provincial government assistance on the Victoria Inner Harbour in 1916 by James D. and D.O. Cameron to build wooden lumber schooners as a subsidy of their Cameron Lumber Company. The lumber schooners were not a commercial success but in 1918 the yard received orders to build from the Imperial Munitions Board to four 2,800 ton wooden steamers for the war effort.

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.