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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.

Steel twin screw passenger steamer with turbo-electric machinery, 5,911 tons gross, operated by Canadian Pacific Railways from 1950 to 1978. She served as a floating hotel in Vancouver in 1986, and was scrapped in 1995.

Steel twin screw passenger steamer with turbo-electric machinery, 5,911 tons gross. She was operated by Canadian Pacific Railways from 1950 to 1974, and, in 1975, she was sold to B.C. Steamship Company, an arm of the provincial government. From 1975 to 1988, she operated between Victoria and Seattle. From 1988 to 1989 she was operated by new owners, B.C. Stena Line Company. She was laid up in 1989 when B.C. Stena Line declared bankruptcy. In 1992, she was towed to Singapore, and in 1997, she was scrapped in India.

Steel twin screw steamer, 5,875 tons gross. She was requisitioned as a troop transport in 1941, and torpedoed and sank by U-83 in the Mediterranean in 1942.

A.J. Temple was a Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve.