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Contents
Preface 9
INTRODUCTION
Steel Shipbuilding in British Columbia 11
CHAPTER I
Those Shipbuilding McLarens 26
CHAPTER 2
The Challenge of Wartime Shipbuilding 45
CHAPTER 3
Post-War Downsizing and Adjustment
(1946-1948) 69
CHAPTER 4
No Assets, No Overhead:
Starting a New Shipyard 83
CHAPTER 5
Building for Remote Areas:
The Northern Rivers 100
CHAPTER 6
Landlocked Vessels (t950s-1970s) 120
CHAPTER 7
Building a Saltwater Ferry Fleet 129
CHAPTER 8
Boom Times: Government Subsidies
and a New Shipyard Site 146
CHAPTER 9
Tugs and Barges:
Workhorses of the Coast 158
CHAPTER 10
The Business of Fish and Fishing Vessels 176
CHAPTER II
Ships for Offshore Oil and the Arctic 189
CHAPTER 12
Slow Times 208
Epilogue 215
APPENDICES
1: Vessels built by Allied Shipbuilders Ltd. 219
2: BC Builders of Steel and
Aluminum Commercial Vessels 263
Index 280