Shipbuilding has been a big part of Victoria’s history, says maritime historian Denton Pendergast, curator of the Victoria Harbour History project. It started with the gold rush, when Gov.
James Douglas required all prospectors to register their claims in Victoria before heading to the gold fields via the Fraser River. “But, of course, there was very little transportation. So, the shipbuilding industry began and they started building steamboats,” Pendergast said.
In 1911, the Songhees succumbed to years of pressure to sell the land and the Songhees people were relocated to land east of Esquimalt Harbour. Shipbuilding on the West Coast has boomed and gone bust over the decades, with shipyards buzzing as demand spiked for ships to be built for war, exploration and trade, then idling during the Great Depression and tough economic times.
In the late 1990s, John Sanderson, a former engineer and commercial fisherman, along with a small group of local businessmen, bought Point Hope out of bankruptcy.
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