The Foundation Company
The Foundation Company’s West Coast shipyard was located on the western shore of 
Victoria’s upper harbour. Known as Point Hope, the site had been a shipyard since 1873, once known as Colling and Cook’s Ways and later Clark and Turpel’s Shipyard. 36 It was leased to the Foundation Company in 1917 and in that same year, the company produced five wooden cargo ships for World War I; the War Songhee, War Massett, War Babine, War Camchin, and the War Nanoose. 37 The newspaper article pictured here from the Daily Colonist, December 28, 1917 tells of the launch of the first ship, the War Songhee.
by Catherine Gilbert and Shea Baldwin
Camerone Genoa Mills Shipbuilders Ltd
Formed by Cameron Lumber Co. and Genoa Bay Lumber Co., Camerone Genoa Mill’s facility was just to the south of the Foundation Company’s yard on what today is Harbour Road. In 1918, they built four cargo ships, the War Stikine, the War Yukon, the War Skeena and the War Haida. 38
by Catherine Gilbert