MIL-Davie Shipbuilding is a historic

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company that was located in both Sorel, Quebec (MIL) and

Lauzon, Quebec Lauzon is a former city in southern Quebec, Canada, located on the St. Lawrence River northeast of Lévis. Founded in 1867 as a village it became a town in 1910, Lauzon had a population of about 14,500 when it merged with Lévis in 1989. The the ...

(Davie). In 1986,

Marine Industries Limited Marine Industries Limited (MIL) was a Canadian ship building, hydro-electric and rail car manufacturing company, in Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, with a shipyard located on the Richelieu river about 1 km from the St. Lawrence River. It employed up to ...

merged with

Davie Shipbuilding Davie Shipbuilding is a historic shipbuilding company located in Lauzon, Quebec, Canada. The facility is now operating as Chantier Davie Canada Inc. and is the oldest continually operating shipbuilder in North America. History The Davie shipyard ...

to become MIL-Davie Shipbuilding. The company declared bankruptcy in the early 2000s due to a lack of contracts and sold to Norwegian interests

TECO Maritime TECO Maritime Group AS () is a specialist supplier of technical services to the maritime industry. TECO offer voyage repair and maintenance services onboard vessels, whilst they are in service. TECO Group ASA acquired Davie Shipbuilding of Canada ...

. The Quebec facility, located on the St. Lawrence River across from Quebec City, was closed in 1997 and will be re-activated for a contract to be delivered in 2009 and renamed

Davie Yards Incorporated Davie Yards Incorporated was a ship building unit of TECO Group of Norway and is the successor to Davie Shipbuilding and MIL-Davie Shipbuilding from 2006 to 2011. Created in 2006 when TECO purchase the assets for the bankrupt MIL-Davie, the new C ...

Ships built

;Ferries * MV ''Joseph and Clara Smallwood'' (1986) * MV ''Caribou'' (1984) ;Warships * ** ** **

Ships built

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