CH Cates & Sons
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1886
Charles Henry Cates arrives in Vancouver and begins his first business operations
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1921
CH Cates and Sons Limited is officially incorporated and established at the foot of Lonsdale Avenue
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1988
CH Cates and Sons Limited acquires Seaforth Towing
Vancouver Tug
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1898
Vancouver Tug formed by Harry A. Jones
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1919
Harry A. Jones sold Vancouver Tug and passed away four years later
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1924
Vancouver Tug business revived by Harold Jones (Harry Jones' son). Business re-named Vancouver Tug Boat Company
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1954
To cut costs and further integrate its operations, Vancouver Tug purchased Vancouver Shipyards (originally incorporated in 1902)
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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
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1962
Vancouver Tug acquired Vancouver Barge Transportation
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1963
Vancouver Tug acquired Pacific Tanker
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1965
Vancouver Tug acquired Western Tug & Barge
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1966
Vancouver Tug launches the pride of their fleet – a 3500 horsepower, 136 foot tug named the Harold A. Jones
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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
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1924
Island Tug & Barge formed by Harold B. Elworthy
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1926
Elworthy acquired Gardner Towing
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1937
Elworthy purchased a 1500 horsepower US Coastguard cutter named Snohomish, equipped it for towing and salvage and made it the company flagship
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1954
Island Tug & Barge acquired a vessel named Sudbury, which for more than a decade was BC’s most famous tug
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1956
Island Tug acquired Young & Gore
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1958
Island Tug acquired Victoria Tug
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1960
McAllister Towing, of Montreal, purchased Island Tug and then Griffiths Steamship Company in 1961
Seaspan is Born - Genstar Appears
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1969
Genstar Ltd. acquired Island Tug & Barge
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1970
Genstar joined with Dillingham Corporation to merge Island Tug and Vancouver Tug into a new corporate identity, Seaspan
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1972
Seaspan acquired FM Yorke & Sons Ltd.
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1973
Genstar obtained full ownership of Seaspan by purchasing Dillingham’s interest
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1977
Seaspan acquired Gulf of Georgia Towing
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1986
Imasco Ltd. acquired Genstar and gained controlling interest in Seaspan
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1986
Imasco sold Seaspan to McLuan Capital Group
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1991
Seaspan acquired Vancouver Drydock Company
Washington Companies
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1992
CH Cates and Sons purchased by Dennis Washington
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1994
Vancouver Shipyards (Esquimalt) Ltd. (now Victoria Shipyards) was created at the Public Works and Government Services’ Esquimalt Graving Dock to fill the void left when Yarrows Shipyard Limited went bankrupt
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1994
Dennis Washington acquires a partial interest in Seaspan International Ltd. (now Seaspan ULC)
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1995
Dennis Washington acquires Norsk from Fletcher Challenge
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1996
Dennis Washington purchased the remaining shares in Seaspan and its subsidiaries to become 100% owner of the company
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1996
Seaspan acquires a 50 percent interest in Marine Petrobulk Limited
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1997
Kingcome Navigation acquired by Dennis Washington from MacMillan Bloedel
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1998
Dennis Washington purchased Seaspan Coastal Intermodal (now Seaspan Ferries) from Canadian Pacific
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1999
Cates, Seaforth, Norsk & Kingcome amalgamated to Seaspan
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2010
Seaspan acquires the tug and barge assets of SMIT Marine Canada
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2011
Seaspan Ferries acquires the business of Van Isle Barge Services Ltd.
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2011
The Government of Canada formed a $7.3B partnership with Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards to build future state-of-the-art Non-Combat vessels for the Canadian Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Navy under the National Shipbuilding Strategy.
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2012
Seaspan signs the NSS Umbrella Agreement with the Government of Canada making the new partnership official.
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2013
The Government of Canada announced that Vancouver Shipyards will build up to 10 additional large Non-Combat vessels for the Canadian Coast Guard under the National Shipbuilding Strategy, worth an estimated $3.3B.
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2015
Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards started construction on the first National Shipbuilding Strategy vessel, the Canadian Coast Guard’s Offshore Fisheries Science Vessel (OFSV).
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2015
Seaspan completed its $170M Shipyard Modernization Project.
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2016
The Washington Companies acquired controlling interesting in Marine Petrobulk LP.
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2016
Vancouver Shipyards started construction on its second NSS vessel, the Canadian Coast Guard’s second OFSV.
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2016
Seaspan Celebrates Historical Milestone for the Royal Canadian Navy.