Vancouver Portland Cement Company
The Vancouver Portland Cement Company was incorporated in British Columbia on 19 April 1904. It owned land around Tod Inlet and operated limestone quarries and cement manufacturing operations on those lands. Much of the Vancouver Portland Cement Company land at Tod Inlet is now occupied by the Butchart Gardens.
One of the Vancouver Portland Cement Company’s former limestone quarries at Tod Inlet is now the Sunken Garden at Butchart Gardens.
The Vancouver Portland Cement Company was incorporated in British Columbia in April 1904. The controlling shareholders were Senator George Albertus Cox and Edward Rogers Wood. Robert Butchart was a minority shareholder and Managing Director.
On 2 January 1907, Edward Rogers Wood incorporated a new Vancouver Portland Cement Company under the federal Companies Act of 1906, and the Vancouver Portland Cement Company which had been incorporated in April 1904 under B.C. provincial legislation was merged into the new federally incorporated Vancouver Portland Cement Company.
With the new federal incorporation, Edward Rogers Wood also transferred the Vancouver Portland Cement Company’s head office from the Board of Trade Building in downtown Victoria to Edward Rogers Wood’s own office at 26 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario.
The Vancouver Portland Cement Company’s Victoria head office remained in the Board of Trade Building until 1919, when the Vancouver Portland Cement Company was taken over by the British Columbia Cement Company.
The Vancouver Portland Cement Company remained in business until February 1919, when it was merged with its leading British Columbia competitor, the Associated Cement Company (Canada) Ltd., to form the British Columbia Cement Company.
Robert Butchart became the President of the British Columbia Cement Company and remained its President until his death in 1943.
Here are some sites with more information and photographs of the Vancouver Portland Cement Company:
Here are some historic photographs of the Vancouver Portland Cement Company operations:
Here are links to some historic photographs of the Vancouver Portland Cement Company plant at Tod Inlet:
- BC Archives photo G-06193 – Vancouver Portland Cement Company plant, Tod Inlet, circa 1905-1909
- BC Archives photo G-06194 – Vancouver Portland Cement Company plant, Tod Inlet, circa 1905-1909
- BC Archives photo G-06188 – Vancouver Portland Cement Company plant, Tod Inlet, circa 1905-1909
- BC Archives photo G-00440 – Sunken Garden and Vancouver Portland Cement Company plant, circa 1916
Here are some advertisements placed by the Vancouver Portland Cement Company:
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