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49°18′32″N 123°04′46″W / 49.309000°N 123.0795°W / 49.309000; -123.0795

The remains of Burrard Dry Dock
Women shop stewards at the Burrard Dry Dock in 1942

Burrard Dry Dock Ltd. was a Canadian shipbuilding company headquartered in North Vancouver, British Columbia. Together with neighbouring North Van Ship Repair and Yarrows Ltd. of Esquimalt, which were both later purchased by the company, Burrard built and refitted over 450 ships, including many warships for the Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy during the First and Second World Wars.

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49°18′32″N 123°04′46″W / 49.309000°N 123.0795°W / 49.309000; -123.0795 Burrard Dry Dock Ltd. was a Canadian shipbuilding company headquartered in North Vancouver...

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Vancouver, British Columbia has a large film and television production industry, which earned it the nickname "Hollywood North." It usually serves as a...

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with him over two miles (3.2 kilometres) the next day when he was at Burrard Dry Dock. In 1967, K Pod orcas were being herded in the Yukon Harbor capture...

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Toronto Drydock Company Bathurst Street Wharf Burrard Dry Dock North Van Ship Repair (absorbed by Burrard Dry Dock) Canadian Power Boat Company Canadian Vickers...

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corporate restructuring saw the company renamed Saint John Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Ltd.. By the 1980s, it came to be known simply as Saint John Shipbuilding...

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unplanned and novel captive, he was given improvised accommodation at Burrard Dry Dock. When he arrived, the aquarium's assistant curator Vince Penfold and...

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MV Queen of New Westminster

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class ferries. Like her sister ships, she was lengthened in 1973 at Burrard Dry Dock. After the ship damaged a crankshaft beyond repair, she was re-engined...

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(ICBC) building. "Burrard Dry Dock" Mariner Life August 2007 "A Riveted Community: North Vancouver's Wartime Shipbuilding" "Burrard Dry Dock photograph collection"...

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Port Weller Dry Docks was a shipbuilder on the Welland Canal at the Lake Ontario entrance. The shipbuilder was founded in 1946 and the site was initially...

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ended in 2008. The Neah Bay Dock Company was a subsidiary of the Puget Sound Navigation Company. In 1929 the Neah Bay Dock company owned a wharf and a...

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his business ruined. In 1867, Deighton opened a bar on the south side of Burrard Inlet at the behest of his old friend, Captain Edward Stamp, the owner...

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CCGS Amundsen

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additional 51 berths. The ship's keel was laid down 4 January 1977 by Burrard Dry Dock at their yard in North Vancouver, British Columbia with the yard number...

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SS Princess Marguerite

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47 million. A $500,000 renovation was undertaken on the vessel at Burrard Dry Dock, which included repainting the vessel white with stylized Union Jacks...

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family sold the yard to Burrard Dry Dock, with the deal completed on April 15, 1946. The yard was closed in 1994 and the graving dock and property are now...

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The Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company was a shipyard that operated at Port Arthur, Ontario, now part of Thunder Bay, on Lake Superior from 1911...

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team not to kill the whale but instead tow it to a netted-off area at Burrard Dry Dock near the Vancouver Aquarium. While the initial motive in keeping the...

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Home front during World War II

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index of 110 in 1942 to 84 in 1944 and only 65 in 1945. Worse, imports dried up. The Japanese food rationing system was effective throughout the war...

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