Burrard Dry Dock (shipbuilder), Foot of Lonsdale, insulation used Asbestos, Rockwool, CAFCO, Fibreglas ....

.... dependent upon these clients preferred requests:

Federal

Provincial

Independents

 

..... Material:

Asbestos (Fireproof),  perforated ceiling tiles

Rockwool (Fireproof and Weather), (Interior hull livable spaces)

Fibreglas (Weather) only 

CAFCO

the Apprentice quipped: 'Just think, when we are cremated, our bodies will just glow' 

No record. No proof. Of that.

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COMPLETE LISTING OF VESSELS BUILT

1894 

Burrard Dry Dock

 Mary E. Cousin (owner), Wood Sternwheeler, O.N. 103473, completed 1894, Disposition built at Okanogan Landing

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BC Ferries, the location of the asbestos (typically the older vessels) are well marked.  Today's travelers need not fear being exposed, because the BC Ferries Union has taken care to protect everyone.

 

PS  

Some of the gas masks from WWW I  contained chrysotile or crocidolite asbestos in their filters.

...... saved lives  but were exposed to asbestos

So too ....,

for the wives back home who made the masks, and passed it (?) onto their children ...