THE FORMER Versatile Pacific Shipyards Inc. site at the foot of
Lonsdale Avenue in North Vancouver, which is now called
Yarrows Litd., is currently negotiating with the federal govern-
ment for more ship-related work.

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Port of Vancouver

ON SUNDAY, May 16, the
Vancouver Port Corp.
(VPC) will hold its annual
Port Day on both sides of
Burrard Inlet.

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

The following is a brief profile
of some of the major waterfront
industries on the North Shore.

CanadianOxy

This chemical producer was
originally established on the North
Shore industrial waterfront in
1957 when it was called the
Hooker Chemical Co.

The chemical plant is now call-

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When Hooker was first built,
the chemical plant had a capacity
to handle 109 tonnes per day (tpd)
of chemical products.

The plant has expanded four
times since and today it can han-
die 505 tpd of chioralkali and
muriactic acid.

Other chemicals produced at
CanadianOxy include chlorine,
caustic soda, sodium chloride
products such as brine, salt slurry
and bulk salt and hydrogen gas.

Allied Shipbuilders Ltd.

Allied Shipbuilders Lid. has
been located in North Vancouver
since 1967.

The family-owned business is
now primarily involved with ship
repair work since all new  ship-
building contracts on the West
Coast have virtually ground: to a
halt.

Allied is also involved in secur-
ing new ship repair contracts for
the Vancouver Drydock Com-
pany’s floating Panamax drydock,
located on the North Vancouver
waterfront.

§ photo Mike Wakefield

orth Shore’s waterfront

industries

Dow Chemical
Canada Inc.

In late 1979, an Ontario-based
chemical company decided that if
it wanted to compete - interna-
tionally, it had to set up a termi-
nal on Canada’s West Coast.

Dow Chemical Canada_ Inc.
subsequently leased a chunk of
land immediately. west of the Se-
cond Narrows Bridge. .

Today, Dow exports three
chemical products to world mar-
kets, mainly the Pacific ‘Rim. Its
North Vancouver terminal only -
exports chemicals which are
transported to the North Van-
couver facility from its manufac-
turing plant in Alberta. :

The three products fiandled by
its North Vancouver terminal are
caustic soda, ethylene glycol and
ethylene dichloride. :

Lynnterm

The Lynnterm forest products -
terminal, which is owned by. the
Vancouver Port Corp. (VPC) and
operated by the Western Stevedor-
ing Co., first came to the. North

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