Yarrow Point

Yarrow Point (48˚38'00" 123˚29'00" W side of Coles Bay and Saanich Peninsula, NW of Victoria). Named in 1946 to recognize the war work done by Yarrows Ltd, Esquimalt’s largest shipyard. In the years leading up to WWI, Sir Alfred Yarrow (1842–1932), owner of a famous shipyard on the R Clyde at Glasgow, sought to acquire a plant in N America. He ended up buying the BC Marine Rwys Co (more commonly known as Bullen’s) in 1913 for $300,000; the fact that there was a government drydock at...

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