Naval Shipyards, York (Upper Canada)

Naval Shipyards, York
Toronto, Ontario
Type	Shipyard
Site information
Controlled by	Royal Navy
Site history
Built	1793–1798
In use	1790s – 1813
Battles/wars	Battle of York 1813
Garrison information
Garrison	Fort York

Royal Navy facilities in Canada

Stations	North American Station Pacific Station Provincial Marine

Dockyards and depots	Amherstburg Esquimalt Grand River Halifax Ile aux Noix Kingston Penetanguishene Navy Island York

Ships	Ships at North American Station Ships at Pacific Station

Naval Shipyards, York (Upper Canada) was one of the shipyards of the Royal Navy on Lake Ontario. The yards was called for by Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe in 1793 ^[1] and operated from 1798 long before the town of York was populated and up to the War of 1812. The yard was on the western edge of the town (east of the Fort Rouille) and located south of Front Street on the shores of Lake Ontario west of Bay Street (today the tracks south of Union Station. Ships were built along the sand shores using the trees from the forests inland and launched into Toronto Bay. While shipbuilding resumed in York (and later in Toronto), the naval yards did not build any other navy ships after 1813 and abandoned and likely moved to a safer and more protected location in Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard.

The yard built a few ships:

Toronto - schooner 1813 and wrecked 1817
HMS Prince Regent - schooner launched 1812 and renamed HMS Beresford in 1813, as HMS Netley 1814 and finally base ship HMS Niagara; broken up 1843
HMS Isaac Brock - incomplete frigate 1813

Shipbuilding in Toronto did re-emerge years later, but it was all in private hands:

Polson Iron Works at Frederick Street 1883-end of World War I
Cooper's Wharf slip - early 19th century to 1845
Toronto (Dufferin) Shipbuilding Company at Keating Channel 1917-?
Dominion Shipbuilding Company 1917-?
Canadian Shipbuilding Company
Toronto Drydock and Shipbuilding Company
numerous builders at mouth of Rouge River 1810-1856 ^[2]

References

List of Vessels Employed on British Naval Service on the Great Lakes, 1755-1875

Canadian shipbuilders and shipyards

Active shipbuilders	ABCO Industries A.F. Theriault & Son Allied Shipbuilders Canoe Cove Manufacturing Davie Yards Hike Metal Products Irving Shipbuilding Glovertown Shipyard Kiewit Offshore Marystown Shipyard MIL/Metal Craft Marine Newdock Pictou Shipyards Port Weller Drydocks Seaspan Marine Toronto Drydock Vito Steel Boat & Barge

Defunct shipbuilders	Albion Iron Works (VMD) West Coast Shipbuilders Bathurst Street Wharf Bel-Air Shipyards Limited Betram Engineering Works Company Burrard Dry Dock Canadian Dredge and Dock Limited Canadian Power Boat Company Canadian Shipbuilding Company Canadian Vickers Collingwood Shipyards Davie Shipbuilding Dominion Shipbuilding and Repair Company Limited Dufferin Shipbuilding Company Limited Eastern Equipment Limited Ferguson Industries Limited Friede Goldman Newfoundland Government Dock Yard, Sorel Halifax Dartmouth Industries J. Coughlan & Sons John Doty Company John Manly's Limited Marine Industries MIL-Davie Shipbuilding Morton Engineering and Dry Dock Company Navy Island Marine Newfoundland Dockyard North Van Ship Repair Port Arthur Shipbuilding Prince Rupert Drydock & Shipbuilding Russel Brothers Saint John Shipbuilding Star Shipyards Thor Iron Works Toronto Shipbuilding Company Limited Toronto Shipyards Victoria Machinery Depot W. Armour & Company Western Canada Shipyards Limited West Coast Manly Shipyards Limited Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company William Lyall Shipbuilding Co Yarrow Shipyards (Canada)

Historic naval shipyards and shipbuilding facilities	Amherstburg Royal Naval Dockyard Esquimalt Royal Navy Dockyard Fort Saint-Jean (Quebec) Île aux Noix Naval Shipyards Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard Naval Shipyards, York (Upper Canada) Navy Island Royal Naval Shipyard Penetanguishene Naval Yard Royal Naval Dockyard, Halifax

Naval Shipyards, York (Upper Canada)

See also

References