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The first shipyard was established at Point Hope in 1873. This was the first shipyard in Victoria, and some have said that it was, in fact, the first shipyard in British Columbia. Originally the ways were of wooden construction and the yard was known simply as Colling and Cook's Ways. By 1894 the wooden ways were replaced by a marine railway, which had two cradles. In 1888 the shipyard was referred to as Clark and Turpel's Shipyard and had several names between 1888 and 1928, but the proprietorship was always connected with William Turpel and later his sons, Samuel and Emmerson. In 1917 the site of Turpel’s Marine Railroad was leased to the Foundation Company which built 24 wooden, steam, cargo freighters 250 to 293 feet in length, such as the vessel being launched in this photograph from 1918. The crew in the gallery photograph to the right, taken on September 1st 1919, worked on the Foundation Company's Hull #222. In 1928 the yard was sold to Captain W.E. Gardner, and in 1938 was taken over by Island Tug and Barge Limited and Victoria Tug Company, which named the yard Point Hope Shipyards Limited. |
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