Marine Industry
6 articles
The De Kleer Brothers: Builders of Fraser Sailboats and Endurance 35s
Zephyr (Photo from the Mary Anne Hajer collection.)
The Yarrows Ltd. Shipyard: a short history
The Yarrows Ltd. Ways in Esquimalt Harbour
The MacFarlane Tugboat Company
Tugboat Wabash (#126247) (Photo from MacFarlane collection.)
Capital Iron & Metals Ltd.
Ron Greene Captured HMCS Coaticook Blowing Up (Photo from Ron Greene collection.)
People's Steamship Navigation Company
Incorporated in May 1884 their intended aim was to compete head-on with the Canadian Pacific Navigation Co. of which John Irving was the Manager since its inception. The People's Steamship Navigation Company was managed by John H. Turner and H. Beeton of Victoria and they held 27
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While the history of wooden boats has been comprehensively chronicled from the earliest prehistoric dugouts to 20th century fishing boats, tugs and yachts, the same cannot be said of fibreglass boats. For two to three decades fibreglass boat building was a thriving cottage indust
