| 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 named 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 |
| 1972 |
Seaspan acquired FM 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 |
CH Cates and Sons purchased by Dennis Washington |
| 1994 |
Vancouver Shipyards (Esquimalt) Ltd. (now Victoria Shipyards) was created at the Public Works and Government Services’ Esquimalt Graving Dock to fill the void left when Yarrows Shipyard Limited went bankrupt |
| 1994 |
Dennis Washington acquires a partial interest in Seaspan International Ltd. (now Seaspan ULC) |
| 1995 |
Dennis Washington acquires Norsk from Fletcher Challenge |
| 1996 |
Dennis Washington purchased the remaining shares in Seaspan and its subsidiaries to become 100% owner of the company |
| 1996 |
Seaspan acquires a 50 percent interest in Marine Petrobulk Limited |
| 1997 |
Kingcome Navigation acquired by Dennis Washington from MacMillan Bloedel |
| 1998 |
Dennis Washington purchased Seaspan Coastal Intermodal (now Seaspan Ferries) from Canadian Pacific |
| 1999 |
Cates, Seaforth, Norsk & Kingcome amalgamated to Seaspan |
| 2010 |
Seaspan acquires the tug and barge assets of SMIT Marine Canada |
| 2011 |
Seaspan Ferries acquires the business of Van Isle Barge Services Ltd. |
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