Port Weller Dry Docks

Port Weller Dry Docks was established in 1946, near Lock 1 of the Welland Canal, on a site which had originally been developed in the 1930s, as a dry dock for the Canal's equipment.  At first the company concentrated on repair work, but after WWII it began lengthening and rebuilding vessels, and expanded by operating subsidiary shipyards at Port Dalhousie and Toronto (Toronto Dry Dock Co.)  It went bankrupt in 2006, however, and was restructured as Seaway Marine & Industrial Inc., but went bankrupt again in 2013.  In 2017, it was bought by Heddle Marine and reopened.