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It is one thing to have a design, but from the locations of the shipyards, supplying them with steel plate, rivets, bronze and brass fittings, all the electricals and the propulsion, I would be more curious where the supplies came from. From the page, 83 of the 182 ships were built on the West Coast in BC. That is a very long way away from the traditional heavy industrial areas of Ontario and Quebec.