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L379, L856, L894, L1286 · Fonds · 1919-1922; 1944-1962

Fonds consists of documents and ephemera related to the Royal Canadian Naval College of Canada:

L379
Programme for presentation of colours booklet to Canadian Services College Royal Roads by his excellency major General Georges P. Danier, D.S.O., M.C., C.D., governor general of Canada to be held 25 May 1962. Includes detailed graduation exercises.

L856
Menu from the farewell dinner of 1919-1922 cadets of the Royal Naval College of Canada, autographed by class members. The dinner was held at the Empress Hotel, 15 June 1922.

L894
Alphabetical list of guests attending the 50th anniversary golden jubilee dinner at Royal Roads on 4 July 1960.

L1286
Four prospectus booklets for The Royal Canadian Naval College, Royal Roads dating from 1944 to 1946 and 1955.

Royal Naval College of Canada
Orphan HMCS Naden Collection
L242-L243, L304-L306, L487, L781, P821, L1220, L1259, L1298, L1697-L1698, L1700-L1701, L2406-L2407, L2475, L3097, L3541, 979.097.0001, 982.027.0001-0002, 983.018.0001-0002, 984.009.0001, 984.030.0001-0002, 984.035.0001-0008, 992.028.0002 · Fonds · 1857-1881; 1903-1926; 1950-1971

Fonds consists of assorted books, documents, and photographs received from HMCS Naden or related to the history and operations of HMCS Naden, HMC Dockyard, Esquimalt, CFB Esquimalt, and the Royal Canadian Navy in and around Victoria and Esquimalt.

L242:
Record book titled "Naval Records No. 305" consisting of records of correspondence to and from Esquimalt from 1904 to 1906.

L243:
Record book titled "Naval Records No. 305" consisting of records of correspondence to and from Esquimalt from 1903 to 1907.

L304:
Esquimalt Naval Establishment Records Part I dating from 21 August 1862 to 30 December 1871. Also includes indexes to parts II and III.

L305:
Esquimalt Naval Establishment Records Part II dating from 11 January 1871 to 18 August 1857.

L306:
Esquimalt Naval Establishment Records Part III dating from 14 July 1875 to 14 December 1881.

L487:
Booklet containing a list of items for new works, buildings, and repairs, proposed to be inserted in the estimates for 1904-1905 for Esquimalt Naval Yard including two pages of estimated costs for the naval yard and the victualling yard.

L781:
Folder containing accounts instructions regarding entry, discharge, payment, etc. of workmen at HMC Dockyard, Esquimalt in 1915.

P821:
Invitation from Yarrows Limited for the launching of the second caisson being built by them for the new government dry dock in Esquimalt.

L1220:
Canadian War Museum booklet describing the military history of Canada and a minute sheet that was slipped inside.

L1259:
Booklet titled "Royal Canadian Navy, Pacific Command, Navy at Esquimalt" dated 17 August 1955.

L1298:
Report of proceedings in the Department of Naval Service for the week ending 28 November 1919 from Canadian Naval Staff Officer to the Captain Superintendent at HMC Dockyard, Esquimalt.

L1697:
Map of HMC Dockyard, Esquimalt showing buildings and data on buildings, ca. 1965.

L1698:
Pamphlet titled "Instructions for the use of the modified Battenburg and examples of the solution of certain standard problems".

L1700:
Department of Marine & Fisheries contract between His Majesty, The King and Messrs. The Victoria Machinery Depot Company Limited, Victoria BC for two steel single screw cargo steamers of 8,100 T. Deadweight each, dated 29 January 1919.

L1701:
List of costs for Harbour Marine Company Limited. Cost construction as at 31 January 1921.

L2406:
Booklets titled "Portage by-laws for the district of Yale and New Westminster established by the Pilotage authority" published in Vancouver by Thomson Bros, 1894.

L2407:
Booklet titled "Rules and Regulations for the management and working of the graving dock at Esquimalt, BC", published in Ottawa by Queen's Printer, 1890.

L2475:
Programme for the acceptance ceremony of CNAV Endeavour, 9 March 1965 at Yarrows Limited, Esquimalt.

L3097:
Booklet titled "Instructions for Running and Care and Maintenance of 'D' Type Engines" dated 4 June 1918.

L3541:
Deck log book used by HMCS Naden at Esquimalt with entries relating to HMCS Naden, HMCS Ontario, HMCS Stadacona, HMCS Cornwallis, HMCS Cayuga, HMCS Athabascan, HMCS Rockcliffe, HMCS Unicorn, HMCS Sioux, and HMCS Chatham, dating from 4 April to 29 April 1950.

979.097.0001
Article titled "Esquimalt Dockyard's First Building" dated 16 October 1946. Appears to have been cut out of a book or magazine.

982.027.0001:
Boarding officers' packet consisting of a cardboard box containing language cards in 15 languages and an illustrations card.

982.027.0002:
A 1962 boarding officers' packet consisting of a black leather pouch containing cards to assist visiting officers, specifically "hints for visiting officers", a card of illustrations, and language cards with useful questions and phrases in 25 languages.

983.018.0001:
Programme and map guide for Armed Forces Day, 1983 held at CFB Esquimalt.

983.018.0002:
1983 Armed Forces Day sticker.

984.009.0001:
Programme for the Commissioning Ceremony, Second Canadian Minesweeping Squadron, HMCS Comox and HMCS James Bay at HMC Dockyard, Esquimalt, 3 May 1954.

984.030.0001:
Blank log book titled "Gunner's Naval Ordnance Torpedo Store Account Expense Book".

984.030.0002:
Two blank tactical exercise and torpedo practice forms, 1926.

984.035.0001:
Rough signal log book, N.S.O., Esquimalt dating from August to September 1917.

984.035.0002:
Officers' victualling, leave, and checkbook.

984.035.0003:
Inspection of public money record book for the HMCS Rainbow dating to 1918.

984.035.0004:
Schedules of accounts record book for HMCS Shearwater and Rainbow dating from 1 January 1917 to 1920.

984.035.0005:
Officers' pay book for HMCS Rainbow dating from 30 April 1918 to 30 April 1920.

984.035.0007:
R.C.N. gunnery school classes log book dated 1 January 1938.

984.035.0008.1:
Bank books dating from 28 August 1919 to May 1920.

984.035.0008.2:
Correspondence between the chief accountant of the Department of Naval Services and the commanding officer of HMCS Shearwater and the commander officer of HMCS Rainbow. Also, one deposit notice from the Bank of Montreal to the Paymaster of the Royal Naval College, Esquimalt. Dating from 1919 to 1920.

992.028.0002:
Book of Royal Canadian Navy navigation charts/maps in the Pacific around Vancouver Island, Alaska, and Hawaii. Stamped by HMC Dockyard, Esquimalt chart depot, 26 November 1964.

010.048.0003-0008:
Photographs of miscellaneous vessels in Victoria and Esquimalt Harbour dating from 1964 to 1971, photographs of HMCS Oriole in 1970, photographs of CCGS Racer in 1963, photographs of side shell damage and repair on M/V Don Ramon in 1965, close up photographs of a barge hull, and photographs of the log barge Island Yarder at Yarrows Warf in 1965.

HMCS Naden (establishment)
MacFarlane Family Fonds
L512, 989.213.0002, 991.020, 992.035.0013, 993.001.0031, 993.001.0118-0155, 993.003.0003, 000.006, 000.064.0012 · Fonds · 1933-1998

Fonds consists of documents and memorabilia related to the personal and professional lives of Commander G.R. MacFarlane and John Macfarlane including documents collected during their time in naval training and during their careers as well as documents and ephemera collected during their travels.

George R. MacFarlane's collection consists of documents including notes, certificates of service, biographical information, medical records, records of examinations, reports, Canadian Forces Base, Esquimalt constitutions and by-laws, maps, charts, and correspondence dating from 1946 to the 1970s. Also includes identity cards and a war service badge dated 1998.

Also includes a booklet titled "Notes on Court Martial Procedure" published by the office of the deputy judge advocate with an 1956 HMCS Stettler stamp and three copies of a form titled "Particulars Respecting Candidate for Acting Sub-Lieutenant", revised November, 1933. Form has not been filled out.

John MacFarlane's collection consists of documents, exercise books, photographs, and memorabilia primarily related to John MacFarlane's time as a naval cadet in the 1960s including correspondence, naval messages, cards and invitations, receipts, leave request and authorization forms, notebooks, and general training documents. Also includes travel memorabilia from B.C. Ferries dating to the 1990s including tickets, baggage tags, and dinner menus, and ephemera related to the Holland American Line.

Also includes assorted naval memorabilia dating to the 1950s and 1960s including a Barry's Salmon label, a 1957 price list, a fishing licence, a list of steam launch operators, a programme for the annual inspection of RCSCC Rainbow, an instruction manual for basic slide rules, several hand drawn charts, a mariners compass, assorted tickets, a book of comics titled "Eod Antics" by Pholcox, a booklet celebrating 60 years of RCSCC Rainbow, commissioning booklets for HMCS Chaleur, Fundy, Thunder, Chignecto, naval cap tallies booklet volume 1, and a picture book of ships.

Also includes handwritten auditor general's reports from 1896 to 1897, 1914, 1930, and 1938; HMCS Stettler Dependents Day Cruise programme from 2 August 1957, a letter from the Department of National Defense from 15 July 1968, and Royal Sealink Express safety procedures.

Also includes a book titled "Navigators and Shipwrecks: Australia's Heritage in Stamps", published 1985 consisting of a complete stamp set slipped into sleeve in front of book. As well as an envelope addressed to Mrs. Kathleen MacFarlane, from the Navy Department dated 1961, a blank pad of Island Tug & Barge Limited time-slips, a blank pad of Department of Defence sight forms, a draft handbook on oceanography Northeast Pacific Ocean by Dr. L.F. Giovando, a 1989 calendar with John M. MacFarlane stamped onto front, and assorted business cards, photographs, labels from tinned salmon, postcards featuring images of various vessels, and some envelopes.

Also includes a document titled "Some Naval Customs and Social Practices" by Lieutenant-Commander F.E. Grubb, R.N.C., correspondence related to the British cemetery on San Juan Island, a booklet titled "Royal Tour of Canada 1959", a Maritime Museum newsletter from May 1992, and a newspaper clipping regarding Maritime Museum.

MacFarlane, George R.
J.K. Slater Fonds
988.083.0001-0007, 0015 · Fonds · 1951-1963

Fonds consists of photographs and documents relating to the personal and professional life of J.K. Slater. Includes a naval pay identity booklet, a name stencil, Empress of Scotland passenger list 1952, a 1951 history of HMCS Ontario, mess rules card for HMCS Peregrin, 1963 dress code for HMCS Mackenzie, and exercise notebooks.

Also includes various training notebooks including daily exercises, know your ship, rifle drills, weapons department organization, D/C analog computers, and instructions and parts breakdown for torque trip unit.

Also includes technical reports, charts, drawings, and diagrams, gunner tests, conversion tables, technical procedures, etc. dating from 1962 and 1963.

Slater, J.K.
James D. Laurie Fonds
L1, P985.007.0007, 985.020. · Fonds · 1913-1958

Fonds consists of the personal and professional papers of Lieutenant Commander James D. Laurie. Includes his cadet second class graduation diploma, naval appointments, and orders, certificates, letters of references, and correspondence, dating from 1913 to 1949 as well as documents and correspondence related to insurance policy, pension payments, and adjustments, dating from 1933 to 1958. Also includes a handwritten letter and envelope recovered by divers from the wreck of SS Empress of Ireland, a Christmas card with a picture of an unidentified military band, and a photo album that should contain approximately 100 negatives of pictures taken during a cruise of HMS Berwick from February 1913 to February 1914 but, as of May 2016, all the negatives are missing.

Also includes a journal and note book for the use of junior officers, kept by Midshipman Laurie on HMS Niobe beginning 27 August 1914. The journal includes some coloured detail drawings of ship parts and the dust jacket is actually a map folded over the cover.

Laurie, Lieutenant Commander James D.
Frederick Ernest Grubb Fonds
L450, L504, L757, L1807, L1973, L1880, L1950, L2122-L2134, L2136, L2155-L2156, L2160, L3006, L3067, L3401-L3402, L3434 · Fonds · 1928-1973

Fonds consists of documents and ephemeral collected by Frederick Ernest Grubb during his naval career beginning with his naval training in 1928. Fonds includes documents related to training and procedures from the Royal Canadian Navy, the Department of National Defence, Royal Canadian Sea Cadets; and the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve as well as memorabilia from events and ceremonies of the Royal Canadian Navy and British Columbia's centennial celebrations in 1958. Also includes documents relating to Grubb's gunnery training and the 1967 training cruise of the Japanese Training Squadron.

L450
Commissioning booklet for HMCS Crescent, 31 October 1955.

L504
4 documents relating to the Royal Canadian Navy's participation in British Columbia's centenary, Operation Century.

L757
1964 and 1966 Programmes for the graduation to be held at Canadian Services College Royal Roads, and an invitation addressed to Commander and Mrs. Grubb to the 1964 graduation ceremony.

L1807
Invitation to cocktails on board the Japanese Training Ship Nippon Maru by invitation of the captains of TS Nippon Maru and TS Kaiwo Maru held on 19 June 1967.

L1873
Folder containing documents relating to the Canadian Armed Forces Centennial Naval Assemblies, including a programme, plan for anchorage, and histories of the Royal Canadian Navy and Naval assemblies more generally.

L1880
Pamphlet titled "Japanese Training Squadron 1967 Training Cruise". Contains details and photos of defense ships Teruzuki, Shikinami; Yudachi, and Murasame.

L1950
Order of service for the unveiling of the plaque to the memory of Rear admiral Walter Hose (1875-1965), held 29 October 1967.

L2122
Lectures for University Naval Training Division on various types of warships, c. 1943.

L2123
Organization chart of the Canadian North Atlantic with the Commander-in-Chief at the head, c. 1944.

L2124
Document titled "Royal Canadian Sea Cadets: Syllabus of training for probationary sea cadets" issued by Commanding Officer Reserve Division dated 18 October 1943, list of books for sea cadets dated 27 December 1943, and a document from the Department of National Defence Naval Service regarding sea cadet summer camps dating to 24 June 1943.

L2125
Documents and correspondence from the department of National Defence (Naval Service) regarding punishment, charges, and misconduct.

L2126
Manual of shore patrol service training, Royal Canadian Navy dated 12 May 1943.

L2127
Document for the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve outlining procedures for kitting new entries, c. 1943 and a document outlining the types of buttons worn by the various branches and rates of the Royal Canadian Navy dating to 3 November 1941.

L2128
Document outlining the procedures for handling requests, H.M.C.S. Stadacona dating to 3 February 1943.

L2129
Report providing instructions on preparation and handling of confidential reports on officers (forms S206 & S450). Prepared by P.W. Earl, A/Captain, Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve, Deputy Commanding Officer Reserve Division, dated 9 February 1944.

L2130
Document titled "The Origin and Earlier History of the RCN", c. 1947.

L2131
Training notes regarding officers' disciplinary classes, HMCS Cornwallis, c. 1942.

L2132
Document outlining general instructions on the duty, administration, and training of members of the University Naval Training Division, dating to 2 April 1943.

L2133
Documents outlining questions and answers on regulating duties, c. 1943.

L2134
Document titled "Outline of Reconnaissance", consisting of 10 lectures on the subjects of reconnaissance, intelligence, and ship recognition for R.C.A.F. Officers.

L2136
Booklet titled "Contract Cruise Manual, Navpers 91 058, 1948: NROTC Senior Contract Students", prepared by Training Division, Bureau of Naval Personnel, April 1948.

L2155
Programme for Remembrance Day Service, HMCS Naden, 11 November 1959.

L2156
Two copies of "Presentation of Ceremonial Drums to the Pacific Command of the Royal Canadian Navy", Victoria BC, 16 June 1961.

L2160
Official souvenir programme for the British Columbia Centenary Naval Review and Associated Naval activities, 1958.

L3006
Menu and list of guests to the Royal Canadian Navy Golden Jubilee Reunion Dinner held 4 May 1960.

L3067
Gunnery notebook for naval cadets, 1928-1929.

L3401
Commissioning booklets of HMC Skeena, Fraser, Terra Nova, and Columbia dating to 1957 and 1959. Also, an invitation addressed to Commander and Mrs F.E. Grubb to attend the commissioning ceremony of the HMCS Skeena at Burrard Dry Docks, North Vancouver, Saturday 30 March 1957.

L3402
Programme for the ceremony of presentation of colours by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to the First Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry and The King's Own Calgary Regiment, held at Beacon Hill Park, Friday 17 July 1959.

L3434
Invitation, reserved seating card, and programme for the Royal Roads Military College End of Year Ceremonies, 1973.

Grubb, Frederick Ernest
Douglas Richard Tanner Fonds
991.058.0003, 998.058.0044 · Fonds · [ca. 1960s]

Fonds consists of personal papers, manuals, charts, and drawings related to the naval career of Douglas Richard Tanner. Includes correspondence, certificates, receipt, commemorative programmes, cards, photographs, postcards, membership cards, newspaper clippings, and informational pamphlets for various vessels and planes.

Also includes an IRD Mechanalysis handbook and instruction manual.

Tanner, Douglas Richard
C.H. Brown Fonds
P985.1101-1115, 985.028.0001-0002 · Fonds · 1913-1943

Fonds consists of certificates of service with handwritten comments by the captains of a number of vessels including HMCS Rainbow and HMCS Niobe dating from 1913 to 1940. Also includes a collection of photographs mainly of ships but also of officers, parties, and drills. One photograph is of C.H. Brown receiving O.B.E. decoration. Also includes a souvenir programme of the presentation of the King's Colours to the Royal Canadian Navy Western Command by HM King George VI, May 30, 1939.

Brown, Lieutenant Commander Charles Henry
Canadian Armed Forces Fonds
L2507, L2544, L2762, L2765, L3392, L3463, L3473, L3491, L3560, P4271 · Fonds · 1942-1966

Fonds consists of

L2507
A scrapbook regarding HMCS Grisle, the Canadian Submarine Force Pacific, and USS Burrfish, 1943 to 1961,

L2544
A blank admirals letter book. These were supplied at one time to flag officers for retention of correspondence to be seen by them,

L2762
A booklet titled "B.R. 298 (42) Stability of Ships", published by Department of Naval Construction, March 1942,

L2765
A poster outlining nuclear attack instructions for merchant ships in port,

L3392
A book containing "Commanders Temporary Memorandums" from HMCS Naden dating from January to December 1954,

L3463
A blank rigging warrant log book for HMC ships,

L3473
A report of the personnel structure review team 1 June 1964, Royal Canadian Navy,

L3491
An accounting code book, Naval Services, dating from 1955 to 1966,

L3560
Two copies of the commissioning booklet of CNAV Endeavour, Oceanographic Research Vessel, Department of National Defence.

P4271
Photo album of the Royal Canadian Navy, 1960.

Canadian Armed Forces