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The Canadian Government acquired the former Dunsmuir Estate, Hatley Castle, located in Colwood, British Columbia, in 1940 for use as military college. Part of the college, HMCS Royal Roads, was the naval officers training establishment for the rapidly-growing wartime Navy. The estate property extended down to the shoreline at Royal Roads, an anchorage convenient to Esquimalt and Victoria that had been names by Spanish explorers in the 18th century. The estate was commissioned as HMCS Royal Roads in December 1940 to train officers for the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve and, in 1942, it became the Royal Naval College of Canada to train officers for the permanent force. In 1947, it became an RCN-RCAF College and in 1948, it became Royal Roads Military College, training officers for all three services.

Steel twin screw passenger liner, 12,099 tons gross, owned by Allan Line, operated by Canadian Pacific Ocean Services, registered in Glasgow.

Lieutenant Colonel C.W. King was a gunner serving in the Royal Navy in 1905 and subsequently lent to the Canadian Government.

Steel training ketch from 1943 to present. Built as yacht 1921, she served as training vessel from 1943 to 1945, and was reacquired by the Royal Canadian Navy in 1950.

Charles Edward Walton was an engineer in the Royal Navy from 1874-1915.

Charles William Walton was indentured into the trade of confectioners.

Albert Herbert Crocker was an engineer in Canadian Pacific Coast Steamers. The Crocker family reside in Victoria, BC.

Steel, twin screw, 1,943 tons gross, passenger steamer operated by Canadian Pacific Railway. She was sold in 1951 and her hull converted to hog (wood chip) carrier. In 1953, she struck rock in Welcome Pass north of Vancouver and foundered. Princess Victoria was the first new ship built for the Canadian Pacific British Columbia Coast Steamship Service and, like almost all of the others, was built in Scotland.