Vancouver Shipyards is the newbuilding yard of Seaspan Shipyards, on the north shore of Burrard Inlet at North Vancouver, British Columbia. The operating company is Seaspan ULC, part of The Washington Companies, and it is a different business from the separately listed Seaspan Corporation. This is the site through which Seaspan builds the vessels ordered under Canada's National Shipbuilding Strategy: a polar icebreaker, multi-purpose icebreakers, offshore fisheries science vessels, an offshore oceanographic science vessel and joint support ships.
Repair, refit and conversion are not carried out here. That work belongs to two sister operations under the same owner. Vancouver Drydock lies a short distance east along the same North Vancouver waterfront and has a workforce of more than 200. Victoria Shipyards works inside the Esquimalt Graving Dock at Victoria on Vancouver Island, about 100 kilometres away across the Strait of Georgia, in a dock owned by the Government of Canada.
The outfitting frontage at North Vancouver has been rebuilt. A steel and concrete pier has replaced a timber pier built in 1966 and extended in 1974; completion was announced in September 2025 and the pier is in use, outfitting the Royal Canadian Navy joint support ship HMCS Protecteur. It carries integrated tower cranes, service towers and shore power, takes vehicle traffic, and was designed for sea level rise, extreme storm surge and the seismic loads of one of Canada's highest seismic zones. Finished hulls are launched by submerging a floating drydock beneath them over a purpose-built gravel bed.
