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1982 – Panamax class drydock, related cranes, and machine shop are completed in North Vancouver. [7] 1985 – Burrard-Yarrows Corporation becomes Versatile Pacific Shipyards; 1992 – Cancellation of the Polar 8 Project leads to bankruptcy of Versatile Pacific Shipyards. The North Vancouver shipyard is closed and the last employees are laid off.
Escort carriers at the Vancouver Shipyard in 1943 The USS Gambier Bay CVE-73, an escort carrier that was made in the Vancouver Shipyard. The Kaiser Company (Vancouver, Washington), commonly known as the Vancouver Shipyard, was an emergency shipyard constructed along the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington, to help meet the production demands of the U.S. Maritime Commission in World War II.
Four of the Kaiser Shipyards were located in Richmond, California, and were called the Richmond Shipyards. Three other shipyards were located in the Pacific Northwest along the Columbia and Willamette rivers: the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation and the Swan Island Shipyard in Portland, Oregon, and the Vancouver Shipyard in Vancouver, Washington ...
According to The Columbian, the statue represents Wendy the Welder, a sister of Rosie the Riveter who worked at the Kaiser Shipyards during World War II. The 1,000-pound stainless steel and glass statue was created by six artists and Clark College students collectively known as Women Who Weld in 2005, [1] and unveiled to residents in 2007. [2] [3]
CCGS Terry Fox is a Canadian Coast Guard heavy icebreaker.She was originally built by Burrard-Yarrows Corporation in Canada in 1983 as part of an Arctic drilling system developed by BeauDril, the drilling subsidiary of Gulf Canada Resources.
Creese, Gillian and Strong-Boag, Veronica, eds. British Columbia Reconsidered: Essays on Women. Vancouver: Press Gang; U. of British Columbia, Center for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations, 1992. 454 pp. Kesselman, Amy. Fleeting Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver during World War II and Reconversion.
It was acquired by Vancouver Tug in 1954. In 1968 [9] or 1969, [8] both Vancouver Tug and Vancouver Shipyards were acquired by Dillingham Corporation and moved to their present site at the foot of Pemberton Avenue in North Vancouver, where a larger shipyard was established. Since that time the company has constructed, outfitted, or converted ...
CFB Esquimalt comprises facilities that include Naden (formerly HMCS Naden), [4] His Majesty's Canadian (HMC) [5] Dockyard Esquimalt, Fleet Maintenance Facility – Cape Breton (FMF CB), a Fire Fighting and Damage Control School, the Naval Officer Training Centre (NOTC) Venture, and extensive housing including 716 personnel married quarters at nine sites such as Belmont Park, WorkPoint, and ...