Bathurst Street Wharf - Decline and Closing of Shipyard

Decline and Closing of Shipyard

The yards lay empty for two decades and re-activated by the Ottawa in 1941 to build minesweepers for the Royal Canadian Navy under the contractor Dufferin Shipbuilding Company Limited and then by federally owned Toronto Shipbuilding Company Limited. From 1943, the new owner Redfern Construction Company Limited built minesweepers from the Royal Navy. The last ship was completed in 1945 with the remainder orders cancelled. The shipbuilding industry came to a close in the area for good.