NORTH VANCOUVER City Coun. Stella Jo Dean Is workin

standing at the historically significant Versatile Shipyards site.

Versatile site wish-list
NVC moves to protect shipyard buildings

NORTH VANCOUVER City
Council took steps June 13 to
help protect the historic former
Versatile Pacific Shipyard site.

NORTH VANCOUVER
CITY COUNCIL
By Grace Golightly

Two of the buildings will be
evaluated in detail, with an eye to
preventing further deterioration
should they be deemed viable for
re-use. Once the buildings have
been evalucted, staff will discuss
short-term plans with the owners
to reduce risk of further deteriora-
tion of the buildings.

Some have already been dam-
aged by leaks and by the removal
of interior fixtures.

_ “We've been concerned
because the site has been left

vacant for a considerable length of
time, and has grown increasingly
dilapidated,” said development
services planner Gary Penway.
“We hope that this report will pro-
vide a bit more directicn to the
owners and prospective deveiopers
as to which buildings the city is
really interested in, from a heritage
perspective.

“We're hoping the owners will
be able to work towards having
these buildings stabilized so they
will still be around for considera-
tion in a few years, when we're
able to talk about future use.”

Developers have shown an
interest in the site, but the ship-
yard’s present owners, a Toronto-
based numbered corporation
known as Shieldings, Inc., have
not yet submitted any proposals to
the city. Such discussions may
still be years away, Penway said.

A task force report identified

NEWS photo Balke Wekofield

to save some of the buildings still

three options for conserving seven
to 11 of the site’s most important
heritage aspects, such as the pier,
shipyard offices, coppersmith’s,
blacksmith’s, machine shops.and
the plate shed and mould loft.

Council voted to commit
$10,000 to conduct the detailed
evaluatior of the two buildings
most often suggested as possible
museum sites: the coppersmith’s
shop and the machine shop. A fur-
ther $10,000 may be made avail-
able in matching funds from the
BC. Heritage Trust.

The site dates back to 1906,
when Wallace Shipyard opened.
The company expanded with a sec-
ond shipyard during the First
World War and in 1925 B.C.’s
first drydock facility was added.
During its Second World War
shipbuilding heyday, Wallace
Shipyards employed a labor force
of 10,000.

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