Fonds consists of a scrapbook containing photos, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings regarding the 5,200 mile, 14 month voyage from Montreal, of the ketch Nonsuch beginning in June 1970. There is an envelope glued to the inside back cover containing statistics, a gallery guide, a hand drawn chart, 3 postcards, and 12 additional photographs.

Fonds consists of
A 29 December 1939 issue of 'The Mid-Ocean and Colonial Government Gazette" newspaper,
A programme of the coronation celebrations in Shanghai China, 12 May 1937 and a programme supplement sea shanties,
A topographic map of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, 1915,
General correspondence dating to 1945 and 1946,
And, a 1 April 1939 issue of "The Illustrated London News".

Fonds consists of photo albums, guest books, reports, and promotional material related to the history of M/V Delta between 1889 to 1989 and the 1989 centennial.

Fonds also includes a catalogue of paintings of sail and steam ships for sail through show at the Maritime Museum of BC, a list of shipping nomenclature, a 1989 marine radiotelephone directory, and a May 1989 issue of "The Westcoast Mariner" magazine.

Fonds consists of photographs of Bill Cottingham (believed to be the same man in all photos), three in sailor uniform and two in civilian clothes, at least one of those taken in Manila, Philipines.

Fonds also includes a photograph of an unidentified woman aboard the ship Chemonceaux, two photographs of RMS Empress of Russia, and a 1935 Christmas card from RMS Empress of Russia.

Fonds consists of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police booklet titled "Reports and Other Papers Relating to the Two Voyages of the R.C.M. Police Schooner "St. Roch" Through the North West Passage", detailing the voyage from Vancouver, British Columbia to Sydney, Nova Scotia from 1940 to 1942, and from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1944.

Fonds also includes a calling card for Inspector E.J. Lucas, RCMP.