Vancouver Navigational School - Pacific Marine Training Institute
The Vancouver School Board first began providing navigation training in 1919, in a building on Dunsmuir Street. This short-lived venture soon lapsed, and it was not until 1938, when the provincial government opened the Vancouver Navigational School, that publicly funded marine instruction was again available on the West Coast of Canada. In 1949, this operation was transferred to the Vancouver Vocational Institute (with the addition of a main engineering component), it remained until 1975.
During that year, new leased premises were acquired, and this new facility, namely the Marine Training Centre, began providing training in navigation and engineering. Following the establishment of the Marine Training Advisory Council in 1975, it was decided that the responsibilities of the Centre should be increased. As a result, in 1978, it was designated a Provincial Institute and renamed the Pacific Marine Training Institute.
In 1994 the Pacific Marine Training Institute was amalgamated the British Columbia Institute of Technology to become BCIT's Pacific Marine Training Campus.
Abstracted from a history of the British Columbia Institute of Technology, prepared by the Human Resources department of BCIT.
