Graphic Dorothy Foster

THE HMCS Wasaga minesweeper was built at Burrard Dry Dock and launched in 1940.

Exhibit examines North Van’s
role during Second World War

THE WARTIME Exhibit to be
opened Tuesday night by
Mayor Loucks at the North
Vancouver Museum at
Presentation House is focusing
on North Vancouver. It is enti-
tled Homefront: Shipbuilding
and the North Vancouver
Conimunity 1939-1945,

NORTH SHORE
HERITAGE
By Dorothy Foster

Many people in the community
were involved in war work during
this time in one way or another, or
have a parent, grandparent or relative
that was.

My grandfather and uncle worked
for a short time at Burrard Dry Dock
in North Vancouver during the war
years, and my mother was trained
and worked in Vancouver for Neon
Engineering, making precision parts
for radar and machine guns.

This display is not only for those
who lived at this time; itis also
meant to educate those born since
then. It was a time when North
Vancouver was caught up in some-
thing larger than life.

North Vancouver played a vital
role in Canada’s war effort because
of the shipyard facility located on the
the waterfront at the foot of
Lonsdale.

It was called Wallace Shipyards,
after its founder. Alfred Wallace.
Although it was founded in 1905, it
didn’t begin operating until the end

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NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

JOHN STUART holds a model of the Fort Wallace, the 200th
hull to be built at Burrard Dry Dock.

of 1906 with the availability of elec-
tricity, In 1921 it became the Burrard
Dry Dock Co. Ltd.: in 1977, the
Burrard Yarrows Corp.; and in 1985,
Versatile Pacific Shipyards Inc.

Burrard Dry Dock, as it was
called during the Second World War,
had to expand its shipbuilding facili-
ties to meet the needs of the war. By
1943, there were about [0,000
employees at the north and south
yards (8% were female).

Hlustrated above is the H.M.C.S.
Wasaga, one of many minesweepers
built here. it was launched Dec. 12,
1940, for use by the Royal Canadian
Navy. Oae-third of the Victory Ships

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built in Canada during the Second
World War were built at these ship-
yards.

The museum's display will be
divided into three sections: the
wartime context, the shipbuilding
achievement, and how the communi-
ty was affected.

There will be videos of shipbuild-
ing, historical photographs, posters
and artifacts (from ship models to
gas masks and Victory pins. to stick-
ers and knitting patterns).

Together they will evoke some-
thing of this period and could be
viewed during the summer, and for
the remainder of the year.

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