In 1898 Parliament funded the establishment of a Board of Management of the Marine Biological Station of Canada with Prince as director and chairman.
[3] In addition to Prince as director, the Board of Management consisted of David P. Penhallow as secretary-treasurer and seven trustees.
The initial biological station was designed in the shape of an ark to be placed on a scow for movement along the Canadian coastline.
After WW II, the FRB created more laboratories and expanded its research on oceanography, fish stocks, and eastern Arctic marine biology.
[2] In the late 1960s and early 1970s there were government reorganizations that radically changed the status of the FRB and led to its phasing out.