Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Benson Bros. Shipbuilding
Parallel form(s) of name
- Benson Bros. Shipbuilding Co. (1960)
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1942-1984
History
The first shipyard in the Benson family was founded ca. 1919 on False Creek by Charlie Benson, who had immigrated to Vancouver from Australia in 1907. Charlie's sons Albert Charles Benson and Robert Herman Benson assumed control in 1923, changing the company's name to Benson Bros. Shipbuilding. In 1925, A.C. Benson assumed full control, changing the name to A.C. Benson Shipyard. In 1938 the company relocated to the former Melchion Shipyard in Coal Harbour. R.H. rejoined the company in 1942, and the name reverted to Benson Bros. Shipbuilding. The company acquired the Star Mercer Shipyard in the Queensborough neighbourhood of New Westminster in 1974. In 1979, the company consolidated its operations at the yard in New Westminster. The firm went out of business in 1984.