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George Henry Lifton was a surveyor who served in the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers in Liverpool, an organization for civilians without seagoing backgrounds intended to supplement the Royal Naval Reserve (whose members were seasoned seamen). The Royal Naval Artillery Reserves were disbanded in 1891 but the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) was created in 1903 to serve the same purpose.

George Henry Lifton joined the RNVR in 1903. He was discharged in 1912 in the rank of Chief Petty Officer at his own request because he was emigrating to Canada. Beginning in 1913 in Victoria, Lifton became a leading figure in the organization of a naval volunteer force that became officially authorized in 1914 with the creation of the Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve.

The British Columbia Department of Highways was created in 1954. In 1976, it was renamed the Department of Highways and Public Works. It became part of the Ministry of Transportation and Highways in 1979, which, in 2001, was renamed the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation. This ministry also operated ferries on inland lakes.

This important shipyard had its origins in the Albion Iron Works located on the inner harbour just north of what is now Capital Iron (Originally a Sugar Works). Albion, founded by Joseph Spratt and Johann Kriemler, was an important builder of machinery in Victoria’s early years. It also repaired ships on a slipway near the eastern end of the Point Ellice Bridge. In 1882, Albion became a public company whose directors included several prominent businessmen including Robert Dunsmuir, Robert Paterson Rithet, Joseph Trutch, and John Irving. In 1887, the firm became known as the Victoria Machinery Depot and bought land on the north side of Rock Bay adjacent to the eastern end of the modern Bay Street Bridge. It manufactured large steel items like conduits that were used on the lower mainland and prefabricated steamers used on northern rivers during the Yukon Gold Rush.

During WWI, Victoria Machinery Depot built four 8,800 deadweight ton, steel freighters on a new location on the western side of the harbour south of Point Ellice Bridge through a related company, Harbour Marine Works. After 1921, Marguerite Ethel Spratt took over as president of Victoria Machinery Depot from her husband Charles Spratt when his health declined. She guided the company until 1946, the first North American woman to run a large engineering and shipbuilding organization.

Victorial Machinery Depot built five corvettes early in WWII in the Bay Street yard. The next phase of wartime construction involved large freighters. To build these, Victorial Machinery Depot bought the old Rithet piers south of Shoal Point and adjacent property. This became known as Yard No 2. Twenty 10,000 vessels were built there. Victoria Machinery Depot also built 5 smaller freighters.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Victoria Machinery Depot built a destroyer for the Royal Canadian Navy and did naval refits. The yard was heavily involved in the early building programs for B.C. Ferries, producing 11 of their first 15 vessels. It also built barges and trailer ferries in addition to fabricating steel structures for industrial use. The last major project at Shoal Point was an offshore oil drilling platform completed in 1967, largest in the world at the time, but it broken up in India in 2017. Harold Husband had acquired a controlling interest in the company in 1947 and was its dynamic general manger until 1981. Yard No 2 was closed in 1967 and Victoria Machinery Depot became a major supplier to the Alberta oil and gas industries from what it developed as a heavy engineering factory at the Point Ellice Yard No 1 site. However, this facility was closed in 1994 and Victoria Machinery Depot went out of business.

Steel single screw freighter, 4,982 tons gross. Built in the United Kingdom as Wearpool. She was sold to Swedish owners in 1954 and renamed Adelso. She was then sold to Greek owners in 1964 and renamed Lefkipos. In 1971, she was renamed Dimitros. She was scrapped in 1979.

Steel single screw freighter, 7,044 tons gross. Built in the United Kingdom as Empire Squire, registered in Greece, and renamed in 1943.

1337 tons, built by Jas. Smith, St John NB, 209.0x35.8x21.8 feet, Registered in Liverpool 381/54.

reigned 1406 - 1437.