1. 1960’s

2. A Personal View The Characters and the Companies
A Historical Perspective
Allen Fowlis
2013 BC Towboat Conference
Victoria BC.

3. Coal Harbour 1950's Hoffars Van tug Wright Marine Harbour grocery
Vancouver Shipyards
Burrard shipyard & Marine Ways
Belaire Shipyard
Bensons Shipyard

4. Vancouver Tug Executives

5. The Big Five Island Tug & Barge Vancouver Tug Boat Gulf of Georgia
Straits Towing
River Towing
Harold Elworthy
Jim Stewart
Jim Byrn
George McKeen
Cecil Cosulich

6. The people of the Big Five

7. Acquisitions 50's & 6o's
Vancouver Tug Dolmage Towing Vancouver Barge Transportation Pacific Tanker Western Tug & Barge
Island Tug & Barge Young and Gore Victoria Tug Griffiths Steamship Co

8. Pacific Tanker

9. Vancover Tug Engineer

10. Vancouver Tug Port Captains

11. Vancouver Tug Operations Manager

12. Oil Barge Operations

13. Early Memories

14. Seaspan Shipyards
Vancouver Shipyards opened in 1902 and was purchased by Vancouver Tug in 1954
Original shipyard site was the Foot of Gilford St. in Coal harbour, Moved to present location in 1967
Vancouver Drydock’s roots go back to the Wallace shipyards on that site since the early 1900’s
Victoria Shipyards roots go back to the founding of the graving dock in 1920’s
Seaspan also previously owned and operated the Point Ellice shipyard in Victoria, Now Point Hope Shipyard 14

15. Vancouver Shipyards in 1967

16. Vancouver Shipyards

17. Vancouver Drydock

18. Victoria Shipyards

19. Vancouver Tug Launching Star Shipyards 1967

20. Gulf of Georgia Launching Gulf Horope 1968

21. Seaspan Launching Le Beau Star Shipyards 1970

22. Naval Architects Robert Allan Snr. Robert Allan Jnr Derek Cove
Peter Hatfield
Gerry Talbot
George Forbes

23. Captive Towboat Companies
Forest Industry Kingcome Canadian Tug Swiftsure Chemainus Escott
Cement Industry Ocean LaFarge

24. Seaspan
Seaspan acquired FM Yorke and Son Ltd. adding more rail barges and two self propelled rail ferries to the fleet.
Seaspan acquired Gulf of Georgia towing in 1977 adding tugs and barges to the fleet
Seaspan became a partner in ATL in the Canadian Arctic, Operated tugs on the Canadian Atlantic, and in the North Sea.
Seaspan’s offshore division also operated specialized heavy lift barges moving cargos world wide
Seaspan began ship assist work at Roberts Bank and then moved into Vancouver harbour competing with C.H. Cates directly in 1993 24

25. F M Yorke & Sons Ltd.

26. Arctic Transportation

27. Offshore Division

28. Seaspan Shipdocking

29. Launching of Seaspan Commodore 1976

30. Commissioning of Seaspan Rigger 1980

31. My Early Computer Experience

32. Golf Connections B C T O A Tournaments Bob Hodder Denny Wotherspoon
Point Grey Golf Club
Rod Lindsay
Lorne Hurschman
Bill McIntosh
Bill Osborne
B C T O A Tournaments
Bob Hodder
Denny Wotherspoon

33. Industry Associations
B C Towboat Owners Association Rate Book Bill Sankey
Towboat Employment Agency Cyril Andrews Tony Mortlach
Council of Marine Carriers Alistair Pollock Peter Woodward

34. More Memories
VSY Yard Christmas Parties Coal Harbour and North Vancouver
National Marine Conferences Gordon Sinclair – Marine Administrator
CMC Ottawa visits
International Tug Conferences
Fishing Trips

35. Seaspan Chinook Fishing Trips

36. Shipyards Over the Years
Vancouver Area Burrard Drydock Allied Shipbuilders Bel-Aire Shipyard McKenzie Barge Osborne Shipyard Matsumoto Vito Steel Boat Star Shipyard Westcoast Manly BC Marine
Victoria Area Yarrows Victoria Machinery Depot McKay Cormack Point Ellice

37. Future of Vancouver Shipyards
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