title: NWA British Empire Heavyweight Championship (Vancouver version)
text: # NWA British Empire Heavyweight Championship (Vancouver version)
  
  The Vancouver version of the NWA British Empire Heavyweight Championship was defended as the top singles title in Vancouver-based Big Time Wrestling and its successor, NWA All Star Wrestling, from 1959 until sometime after the last champion, Gene Kiniski, won the title in 1963
  
  ## Title history
  
  Key :
  
  | No. | Overall reign number |
  | - | - |
  | Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
  | Days | Number of days held |
  | (NLT) | Championship change took place "no later than" the date listed |
  | No. | Champion | Championship change | Championship change | Championship change | Reign statistics | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. |
  | No. | Champion | Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Notes | Ref. |
  | 1 | Whipper Billy Watson | July 1959 (NLT) | ASW Show | N/A | 1 | N/A | Reigning Toronto version champion - recognized in Vancouver | |
  | 2 | Gene Kiniski | August 21, 1961 | ASW Show | Vancouver, BC | 1 | 2 | | |
  | 3 | Whipper Billy Watson | August 23, 1961 | ASW Show | Vancouver, BC | 2 | 478 | | |
  | 4 | Mike Sharpe Sr. | December 14, 1962 | ASW Show | Calgary, Alberta | 1 | 7 | | |
  | 5 | Whipper Billy Watson | December 21, 1962 | ASW Show | Calgary, Alberta | 3 | 213 | | |
  | 6 | Gene Kiniski | July 22, 1963 | ASW Show | Vancouver, BC | 2 | N/A | | |
  | — | Deactivated | N/A | — | — | — | — | | |
  