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 ship The Fort ships were a class of 198 cargo ships built in Canada during World War II for use by the United Kingdom under the Lend-Lease scheme. They all had names prefixed with "Fort" when built. The ships were in service between 1942 and 1985, ...

s and

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s for Britain and Canada during

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. Located just west of Lonsdale Avenue adjoining the

Burrard Dry Dock Burrard Dry Dock Ltd. was a Canadian shipbuilding company headquartered in North Vancouver (city), North Vancouver, British Columbia. Together with the neighbouring North Van Ship Repair yard and the Yarrow Shipbuilders#Yarrows in Canada, Yarrow ...

, it was eventually absorbed into Burrard. 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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