Fonds consists of a document outlining the organization of the grand fleet/battle fleet dating to 1918 and Canadian Pacific Steamship Lines terriff's log, supervisors safety manual, telegraph cypher code book, operation and navigation regulations, blank cash books, blank ticket book, steamship service and ferry service schedule and fare cards dating from 1949 to 1969, pad of CP Rail "value labels", steamship lines and Princess Lines brochures containing route maps and schedules and fares information dating to the 1950s,

Also includes a binder containing assorted documents relating to Canadian Pacific Railway Company, including reports, correspondence, and tables dating to the 1970s and assorted memorabilia from The Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway British Columbia Coast Steamship Service and Princess Lines, including employee training books, pamphlets, timetables, and newspaper clippings also dating to the 1970s.

Also includes another collection of passenger lists, programmes, schedules, tickets, menus, and general memorabilia from Canadian Pacific Railway Company Royal Mail Ship lines and Princess lines, Atlantic transport line, White Star line, Dominion Line, American Line, and Allan Line dating from 1903 to 1980 as well as a travel journal dated 1939 and an undated work book.

Fonds consists of a collection of black and white photos of Canadian Pacific Railway coastal service Princess line vessels as well as some miscellaneous photos of windjammers, steamships, and crew. The photo collection originally belonged to T.D. Doug, who was an engineer in the Royal Navy.

Fonds consists of a small collection of photographs of vessels and postcards with images of passenger vessels.

Fonds consists of a typed account of a sealing venture on the sealing schooner Vancouver Belle in 1891 written by Stanley Henderson.

Fonds consists of a whale siting form book, a whale catchers log, and a log book in Chinese and English.

Fonds consists of a booklet titled "Lloyd's Register of Shipping: A talk given to the Holborn Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday 21 November 1956", by Sir Ronald Garrett.

Fonds consists of a Vivian Gas Engine Works catalogue.

Fonds consists of

985.086

• Ship plans, correspondence, Lloyd’s register of shipping load, shipping, and surveyor’s certificates related to Island Tug & Barge vessels M/V Comet, M/V Island Forester and M/V Island Cedar, as well as a cost of building report and assorted certificates for SS Conchita.
• Correspondence, reports, and certificates related to William Beardmore & Company Limited, Victoria Machinery Depot Company Limited, Yarrows Limited, and the Department of Marine and Fisheries dating from 1922 to 1956 and 1979,
• Certificates for ship’s lanterns from the Netherlands Meteorological institute, in Dutch, dated 1924, and certificates of tonnage from the United States of Venezuela.

986.039

• Time sheets dating from August 1947 to December 1956,
• Motor Princess valve cage charts dated 1946 to 1948 (have been ripped in half and taped back together)
  -Blank envelopes and forms from Island Tug & Barge,
  -Booklet of engineering tables and plans titled "I.T.-4.",
• 1962 marine digest,
• Salvage agreement,
• Loading specifications for log barges.

986.040

• Quotation work sheets in alphabetical order which had been stored in a card catalogue style. Consists only of work sheets from 'A' to 'Mc',
• 10 miscellaneous blueprints.

988.284

• Fonds consists of documents, photographs, and blueprints relating to Seaspan engineering , TSS Conchita, and TSS Carlota. The documents include 3 copies of the stability investigation report from the Capsizing of Seaspan 921, two copies of a technical investigation and analysis report on the probable causes of capsize on 19 July 1974 of Seaspan 921, and statistical stability calculations from the capsizing,
• loading scale sheets, calibration scales, transcript of register, load line certificate, and general correspondence dating from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Fonds consists of assorted postcards featuring images of various vessels.

Fonds consists of one timetable/informational pamphlet dated 1954, and 8 menus, one of which is dated 1941, from Canadian Pacific Railway British Columbia Coast Steamship Service.