North Van Ship Repair, later known as Pacific Dry Dock, was a shipyard in the city of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada which built many of the , Fort ships and

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s for Britain and Canada during

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. Founded in 1931 by Arthur Burdick, it was located just west of Lonsdale Avenue adjoining the

Burrard Dry Dock 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, Bur ...

. In 1939, they built three launch ways and began building minesweepers, later expanding to allow the construction of cargo ships. In 1951 it was sold to its next-door neighbor, Burrard Dry Dock, and absorbed. The site was pulled down in the early 1980s and became the

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and the

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(ICBC) building.

References

"Burrard Dry Dock"
''Mariner Life'' August 2007
"A Riveted Community: North Vancouver's Wartime Shipbuilding""Burrard Dry Dock photograph collection"
British Columbia Archival Union List (BCAUL)

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