| 1898 |
Vancouver Tug formed by Harry A. Jones |
| 1919 |
Harry A. Jones sold Vancouver Tug and passed away four years later |
| 1924 |
Vancouver Tug business revived by Harold Jones (Harry Jones son). Business re-named Vancouver Tug Boat Company |
| 1954 |
To cut costs and further integrate its operations, Vancouver Tug purchased Vancouver Shipyards (originally incorporated in 1902) |
| 1956 |
Harold Jones passed away leaving Vancouver Tug to Beverly McCarvill O’Toole. During that time Arthur Lindsay and Captain James Stewart guided the company into a major expansion and rebuilding program |
| 1956 |
Vancouver Tug acquired Dolmage Towing |
| 1962 |
Vancouver Tug acquired Vancouver Barge Transportation |
| 1963 |
Vancouver Tug acquired Pacific Tanker |
| 1965 |
Vancouver Tug acquired Western Tug & Barge |
| 1966 |
Vancouver Tug launches the pride of their fleet – a 3500 horsepower, 136 foot tug name the Harold A. Jones |
| 1969 |
Vancouver Tug and Vancouver Shipyards purchased by Dillingham Corporation and vacated locations at the foot of Denman Street, in Vancouver, to move across Burrard Inlet to a 40 acre waterfront site at the foot of Pemberton Avenue, in North Vancouver |
| 1924 |
Island Tug & Barge formed by Harold B. Elworthy |
| 1926 |
Elworthy acquired Gardner Towing |
| 1937 |
Elworthy purchased a 1500 horsepower US Coastguard cutter named Snohomish, equipped it for towing and salvage and made it the company flagship |
| 1954 |
Island Tug & Barge acquired a vessel named Sudbury, which for more than a decade was BC’s most famous tug |
| 1956 |
Island Tug acquired Young & Gore |
| 1958 |
Island Tug acquired Victoria Tug |
| 1960 |
McAllister Towing, of Montreal, purchased Island Tug and then Griffiths Steamship Company in 1961 |
| 1969 |
Genstar Ltd. acquired Island Tug& Barge |
| 1970 |
Genstar joined with Dillingham Corporation to merge Island Tug and Vancouver Tug into a new corporate identity, Seaspan International Ltd. |
| 1972 |
Seaspan acquired F.M. Yorke & Sons Ltd. |
| 1973 |
Genstar obtained full ownership of Seaspan by purchasing Dillingham’s interest |
| 1977 |
Seaspan acquired Gulf of Georgia Towing |
| 1986 |
Imasco Ltd. acquired Genstar and gained controlling interest in Seaspan |
| 1986 |
Imasco sold Seaspan to McLuan Capital Group |
| 1991 |
Seaspan acquired Vancouver Drydock Company |
| 1992 |
Cates Tug, and subsidiary Seaforth Towing purchased by Dennis Washington |
| 1994 |
Vancouver Shipyards (Esquimalt) Ltd. (now Victoria Shipyards Company Ltd.) was created at the Public Works and Government Services’ Esquimalt Graving Dock to fill the void left when Yarrows Shipyard Limited went bankrupt |
| 1995 |
Norsk acquired by Dennis Washington from Fletcher Challenge |
| 1996 |
Seaspan and its subsidiaries purchased by Dennis Washington |
| 1997 |
Kingcome Navigation acquired by Dennis Washington from MacMillan Bloedel |
| 1998 |
Dennis Washington purchased Seaspan Coastal Intermodal now Seaspan Ferries Corporation from Canadian Pacific |
| 1999 |
Cates, Seaforth, Norsk & Kingcome amalgamated to Seaspan International (Seaspan Coastal Intermodal remains a subsidiary of Seaspan International) |
| 2011 |
Seaspan International Ltd renamed to Seaspan Marine Corporation to reflect a new corporate identiy and rebranding. |
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