Burrard Dry Dock

Burrard Dry Dock Ltd. was a Canadian shipbuilding company headquartered in North Vancouver (city), British Columbia. Together with the neighboring North Van Ship Repair yard and the Yarrows Ltd. yard in Esquimalt, which were eventually absorbed, Burrard built over 450 ships, including many warships built and refitted for the Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy in the First and Second World Wars.

History

1894 - Alfred "Andy" Wallace begins building wooden fish boats at False Creek area of Vancouver, British Columbia. These boatworks burned down in 1909 and was abandoned.

1905 - Wallace Shipyards is incorporated. The following year the company establishes a new, larger shipyard at the foot of Lonsdale Avenue in North Vancouver.

1911 - July 11, the shipyard is destroyed by fire but is immediately rebuilt.

1914-18 - During the First World War, Wallace Shipyards is contracted to make shells for 18-pounder guns, then builds 6 large cargo schooners and 3 freighters - the first deep-sea steel-hulled ships built in Canada - for the merchant marine. To build the wooden schooners, Number 2 Yard is established west of the Squamish Indian Band reserve (now the site of the North Shore Auto Mall). In 1917, Wallace leases Number 2 yard to the William Lyall Shipbuilding Company, which ultimately built 27 wooden ships there before it closes in 1920.

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Dry Dock

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If you know what you want I tell ya you can get it 'round here
You better jet jam and ramble before it all disappears
We've been hardwired
Down here on dry dock
Shining chromide
Down here on dry dock
Now we're down in the diamond mine digging in the earth
Can't you understand that I don't know what it's worth
Sweating in the summer in the tree snake rain
Taking lots of medicine to appease the pain
Hardwalk shining
Down here at dry dock
We've been hardwired
Down here on dry dock
If you don't fly that high you know you're gonna live with fear
There's always gonna be a jerk ready with a gun or a spear
We've been hardwired
Down here on dry dock
Shining chromide
Down here on dry dock
Snow flies, hold tight
Down here on dry dock
Crazy, deep fried
Down here on dry dock

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Time Traveller: Destroyer built in North Vancouver commissioned into the Navy

North Shore News 23 Mar 2025

To protect Canadian waters, the Navy assigned shipbuilding facilities to help with the response, including the Burrard Dry Dock, who received a contract to build four anti-submarine destroyers ... That event is captured here by photographer Jack Cash ... .

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