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Originally the Esquimalt Marine Railway Company, the British Columbia Marine Railway Company was a ship repairing and ship building enterprise established in Lang Cove at the eastern end of Esquimalt harbour by W.F. Bullen in 1893 and sold to Sir Alfred Yarrow in 1914. The B.C. Marine Railway Company (popularly known as Bullen’s Yard) built four wooden passenger vessels and a tugboat for the Canadian Pacific Railway British Columbia Coast Steamship Service.

14,878 gross tons passenger liner in White Star Line of Liverpool’s transatlantic service, normally operating between Liverpool and Montréal. From 1915 to 1917, she served as a troopship. After 1928, she operated from London and Southampton and, in 1931, she was taken out of service 1931. She was scrapped in 1933.

83,673 gross tons, passenger liner In Cunard Line’s transatlantic service from 1939 to 1968. She served as a troopship from 1940 to 1945 and was famously docked in Esquimalt Graving Dock in February 1942 for underwater hull work and fitting of additional troop accommodation. She re-entered transatlantic service in 1946, was taken out of service in 1969, and was burned at Hong Kong while being converted to a floating university in 1972 and scrapped.

Steel singe screw steamer, 1081 tons gross. Built in 1887 in San Francisco for the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company as SS Premier. She was the first vessel on the B.C. coast with electric lights. In 1894, she was renamed Charmer. In 1903, she was acquired by Canadian Pacific when they took over the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, converted to carry automobiles on the Vancouver-Nanaimo run in 1923, rammed and sank CGS Quadra in fog off Nanaimo 1933, sold to H.B. Elworthy in 1935 and finally, broken up, hull burned at Albert Head outside Victoria.

steel single screw steamer, 907 tons gross. Built in England in 1890 and acquired by the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company in 1899, where she transported miners to the Klondike. SS Amur was acquired by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in 1903 when they took over Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, and, in 1912, was sold to Coastwise Steamship and Barge Company of Vancouver for ore trade from Anoyx. In 1924, she was sold to Captain A. Berquist of Victoria and renamed Famous. In 1926, she was grounded off the Skeena River but was salvaged and re-entered into service in coastal trade under charter to Frank Waterhouse & Company. In 1928, she was laid up, dismantled, and abandoned in Bedwell Harbour, becoming a beached and vandalized eyesore. In 1930 or 1932, she was sunk by Pacific Salvage Company in the North Arm of Burrard Inlet on orders of the Vancouver Port Authority.

Wooden single screw, 1,290 tons gross, passenger steamer operated by Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia Coast Service. She was built in Esquimalt, sold in 1928, and scrapped in 1930.

Double-ended steel rail car ferry, 2,382 gross tons. Built by Davie Shipbuilding & Repair Co. in Québec in 1918, for the Canadian Northern Pacific Railway. By the time she reached British Columbia, the Canadian Northern Pacific Railway had gone into bankruptcy and the vessel was purchased by the newly-established Canadian National Railway to provide rail freight car connection between Sidney and Port Mann (Vancouver). She was withdrawn from service in 1932 due to the depression, and resumed service in 1937 between Point Elice Dock, Victoria and Port Mann. She was retired in 1967, reported by nauticapedia.ca to be still afloat in 2014.

Capital Iron and Metals Ltd. was established in Victoria, B.C., as a scrap business in 1934 by Morris L. Greene. Much of its business resulted from the dismantling of ships for scrap. Between 1934 and 1971, the company dismantled nearly 100 ships of various sizes. In 1971, the scrap business was shut down and the company has concentrated on the retail trade.

Charles Hill-Tout operated a small business in Victoria in 1955.