Toronto Drydock Company is a shipbuilding repair company in Canada and the name of two shipbuilders in the 19th and 20th Centuries respectively.
The first Toronto Dry Dock Company was established in 1847 by William Botsford Jarvis in the Province of Canada to build ships to ply the waters of the Great Lakes.[1]
Another Toronto Dry Dock Company Limited was established in 1917 (and acquired shipbuilding business from Patrick Dixon and son Harry J. Dixon) under the Ontario Companies Act to build larger ships and remained in business until 1964 and was later acquired as part of the Port Weller Dry Docks.[2]
The facilities were sold following the bankruptcy of Port Weller by Seaway Marine & Industrial Incorporated in 2006.[3]
The current Toronto Drydock is a small marine repair facility built from the former Great Lakes pulpwood carrier Menier Consol and located in the eastern Portland area near Keating Channel.
Shipbuilding in Toronto dates back to the period when shipping was isolated to the Great Lakes. Early ship builders were conducted by the Royal Navy for use in the Great Lakes.
Toronto was never made famous as a major ship building port, but the industry did exist.
Polson Iron Works was a major builder of steamers in the 1900s. Established in Toronto in 1883, the Iron Works went bankrupt after World War I due to lack of tariff protection.
A number of other builders dotted along Toronto:
The Rouge River's ship building was linked to the prolific lumber industry. The ship building industry ranged between 1810 to 1856.
Most of the ships were used for passenger and to carry potash, grain and lumber between Oswego, New York and Toronto, then called York.
A list of ships built in Toronto:
| Make/Model | Description | Fleet size | Year acquired | Year retired | Notes |
| HMS Arcturus | naval warship | 1 | 1942 | Toronto Drydocks Limited | |
| Mayflower | ferry | 1 | 1890 | Bathurst Street Wharf | |
| Primrose | ferry | 1 | 1890 | Bathurst Street Wharf | |
| Bluebell | ferry | 1 | 1906 | built by Polson Iron Works Limited | |
| Trillium | ferry | 1 | 1910 | built by Polson Iron Works Limited | |
| Kwasind | passenger ferry | 1 | 1913 | built by Polson Iron Works Limited for RCYC | |
| William Inglis | ferry | 1 | 1935 | by Toronto Drydock Company | |
| Sam McBride | ferry | 1 | 1939 | by Toronto Drydock Company | |
| Duke of York | schooner | 1 | 1820 | built by Capt. Hadley | |
| City of Toronto | wood ship | 1 | 1855 | built for Allan Lines |
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