A shipyard established in 1873 on Point Hope and owned, in 1917, by William Turpel and his sons Samuel and Emerson. In 1917, The company was leased to the Foundation Company, Victoria BC, an offshoot of the Foundation Group of Montreal to build five wooden cargo ships.
Shipping Company now based in Singapore. Originally established by British entrepreneurs to operate paddle seamers on the lower Yangtze, the company grew to become a large shipping company run out of Shanghai and Hong Kong that operated vessels between the China coast and Philippines, Southeast Asia, Australia, Japan, and the far east of Russian. After the communist victory of the Chinese revolution in 1949, the company management was consolidated in Hong Kong and then relocated to Singapore. China Navigation Company is the shipping arm of the Swire Group. It is a major operator in shipping in the Southeast Asia.
Firm that operated a large sawmill in Victoria's Inner Harbour at the corner of Pembroke Street and Store Street (north of current location of Capital Iron.) The Company was established in the 1870s as Sayward Lumber. In 1910 or 1912, it was acquired by a group of American businessmen as Michigan Puget Sound Lumber Company. The company's name changed to Canadian Puget Sound Lumber and Timber Company around 1915. Mannings Timber took over part of the operation in 1936 and continued in business until 1958. Canadian Puget Sound Lumber Company vacated its site in 1949 and operated in Sooke until the 1970s.
The Canadian Daily Record was a newspaper distributed free of charge through all Canadian military units in Europe, during WWI. The "Record" contained a mix of international and domestic news to keep soldiers informed of what was going on in the wider world.