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Vancouver Tug

1898	Vancouver Tug formed by Harry A. Jones
1919	Harry A. Jones sold Vancouver Tug and passed away four years later
1924	Vancouver Tug business revived by Harold Jones (Harry Jones son). Business re-named Vancouver Tug Boat Company
1954	To cut costs and further integrate its operations, Vancouver Tug purchased Vancouver Shipyards (originally incorporated in 1902)
1956	Harold Jones passed away leaving Vancouver Tug to Beverly McCarvill O’Toole. During that time Arthur Lindsay and Captain James Stewart guided the company into a major expansion and rebuilding program
1956	Vancouver Tug acquired Dolmage Towing
1962	Vancouver Tug acquired Vancouver Barge Transportation
1963	Vancouver Tug acquired Pacific Tanker
1965	Vancouver Tug acquired Western Tug & Barge
1966	Vancouver Tug launches the pride of their fleet – a 3500 horsepower, 136 foot tug name the Harold A. Jones
1969	Vancouver Tug and Vancouver Shipyards purchased by Dillingham Corporation and vacated locations at the foot of Denman Street, in Vancouver, to move across Burrard Inlet to a 40 acre waterfront site at the foot of Pemberton Avenue, in North Vancouver

Island Tug & Barge

1924	Island Tug & Barge formed by Harold B. Elworthy
1926	Elworthy acquired Gardner Towing
1937	Elworthy purchased a 1500 horsepower US Coastguard cutter named Snohomish, equipped it for towing and salvage and made it the company flagship
1954	Island Tug & Barge acquired a vessel named Sudbury, which for more than a decade was BC’s most famous tug
1956	Island Tug acquired Young & Gore
1958	Island Tug acquired Victoria Tug
1960	McAllister Towing, of Montreal, purchased Island Tug and then Griffiths Steamship Co. in 1961

Seaspan is Born – Genstar Appears

1969	Genstar Ltd. acquired Island Tug& Barge
1970	Genstar joined with Dillingham Corporation to merge Island Tug and Vancouver Tug into a new corporate identity, Seaspan International Ltd.
1972	Seaspan acquired F.M. Yorke & Sons Ltd.
1973	Genstar obtained full ownership of Seaspan by purchasing Dillingham’s interest
1977	Seaspan acquired Gulf of Georgia Towing
1986	Imasco Ltd. acquired Genstar and gained controlling interest in Seaspan
1986	Imasco sold Seaspan to McLuan Capital Group
1991	Seaspan acquired Vancouver Drydock Company

Washington Companies

1992	Cates Tug, and subsidiary Seaforth Towing purchased by Dennis Washington
1994	Vancouver Shipyards (Esquimalt) Ltd. (now Victoria Shipyards Co. Ltd.) was created at the Public Works and Government Services’ Esquimalt Graving Dock to fill the void left when Yarrows Shipyard Limited went bankrupt
1995	Norsk acquired by Dennis Washington from Fletcher Challenge
1996	Seaspan and its subsidiaries purchased by Dennis Washington
1997	Kingcome Navigation acquired by Dennis Washington from MacMillan Bloedel
1998	Dennis Washington purchased Seaspan Coastal Intermodal from Canadian Pacific
1999	Cates, Seaforth, Norsk & Kingcome amalgamated to Seaspan International (Seaspan Coastal Intermodal remains a subsidiary of Seaspan International)