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Fonds consists of a DVD titled "Freedom of Aberfeldy", a recruiting film made by the U.K. Ministry of Information in 1941 featuring three servicemen, a Canadian, an Australian, and a New Zealander in Scotland while in service during WWII. The Canadian featured in the video was named Gordon Bolin and he died as a result of HMCS Teme being torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1945.

Fonds consists of books, pamphlets, documents, and newspaper clippings related generally to the history of the Royal Navy, the British Fleet, the Royal Canadian Navy, The Crow's Nest Officer's Club in St. John's Newfoundland, and the Falkland Islands, dating from the 1890s to the 1960s. Also includes a small page of sheet music consisting of scales for the cornet.

L979.52
Book titled “The British Fleet”, by CDR Charles N Robinson, RN. Published by George Bell and Sons, London, 1895. Book is a general history and explanation of the functions of the Royal Navy.

L979.53
Book titled “A Self-Instructor for Navigation and Nautical Astronomy for the Local Marine Board Examinations and for Use at Sea 3rd Edition”, by W.H. Rosser. Published by James Irmay and Son, London, 1876.

L979.54
Issue of “The Crow’s Nest” magazine/pamphlet. A short account of the seagoing officers club and the Newfoundland officers club, dated 1952.

L979.55
Issue of “The Atlantic Advocate” magazine dated to June, 1970. Contains an article on the old Crow’s Nest of St. John’s Newfoundland.

L979.56
Acco press binder containing loose leaf pages with histories of various Royal Canadian Navy ships.

L979.57.1-10
Folder containing correspondence, notes, booklets, and newspaper clippings related to the Crow’s Nest Officer’s Club in St. John’s Newfoundland, and the Falkland Islands.

L979.58.1
Booklet providing “a short notice, historical and descriptive, in regard to the Falkland Islands” prepared on the occasion of the centenary of the colony in 1933 by J.M. Ellis, Colonial Secretary.

L979.58.2-4
Pamphlets relating to the history and scenery of the Falkland Islands.

L979.59
Pamphlet detailing the national ceremony of mourning by the people of Canada for his late majesty King George VI at the National War Memorial, Ottawa to be held on Friday 15 February 1952.

L979.60
Statement by Vice-Admiral H.S. Rayner to the Special Committee on Defence, dated 15 October 1963.

L979.61.1-3
Three Royal Canadian Navy documents, “A Brief History”, “The Royal Canadian Naval Reserve”, and “The Role of the Navy”.

L979.62
Magazine “HMCS Cornwallis” including descriptive illustrated magazine covering the Royal Canadian Navy training base at Cornwallis, Nova Scotia.

L979.63
Booklet designed for distribution to foreign visitors titled “Canadian Special Service Squadron European Cruise” describing the ships of the squadron, dated 1950.

L979.64
Issue of “The News Portsmouth Spithead Fleet Review” Magazine, souvenir edition, with the title “Nato ‘69”, dated May 1969.

L979.65
Pages 1 and 2 of “The Daily Telegraph”, containing articles on the declaration of World War Two, dated Monday 4 September 1939.

L979.66
Booklet titled “Damn the Torpedoes…?” by Lieutenant Colonel Wolfred Bovey, R.O, dated October 1939.

L979.67
Pamphlet titled “White Paper on Defence” published by the Department of National Defence, 1964.

L979.68
Newspaper clippings on various subjects regarding the integration of the Canadian Armed Forces.

L979.69
Biographical sketch of the late Rear-Admiral Walter Hose, C.B.E., R.C.N., extracted from the Canadian Encyclopedia.

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.

Fonds consists of a check issued by the Department of National Defence for five shillings to be paid to E.A.R. Ball, dated 11 June 1925 and an associated letter signed by L.J. Beausoleil, dated 19 June 1925. The money was prize money, won while Ball was serving in World War I. Ball was the father of the donor.

Fonds consists of a card from the Minister of National Defence and accompanying photograph of the cemetery in Villers-au-Bois.

Fonds consists of accession lists from the National Defence Library consisting of detailed catalogue records of the library's holdings, dating from 1962 to 1967. Also includes some blank loan forms.

Fonds consists of record files of the Department of Marine and Fisheries office of the wreck commissioner for B.C., including inquest documents, correspondence, and survey reports regarding the SS Alaskan enquiry, dating from 1922 to 1923.

Also includes assorted correspondence from the Department of Marine and Fisheries Lighthouse Service, Department of National Defence, Yarrows Ltd, Wright Bros. Contractors & Engineers, McTaggart & Ellis, B.C. Coast Freight Co., ltd, Pacific Salvage Company Limited, Dominion Meteorological Service, British Columbia Division, and the Department of Soldiers' Civil Re-Establishment.

Also includes assorted correspondence related to the inquiry by the office of the wreck commissioner for B.C. into the collision of a boom of logs belonging to the Canadian Puget Sound Lumber and Timber company with a submarine drilling plant working in Victoria Harbour in 1921 that resulted in damage and a casualty.

Fonds also includes photocopies of correspondence from the Department of Marine and Fisheries related to erecting beacons and lights on the coast dating to 1887 and a two-page clipping from "The Daily News-Advertiser", 14 July 1912 consisting of a full page article on Hon. J.D. Haze, minister of Marine and Fisheries.

Fonds also include annual reports from the Department of Marine and Fisheries, dating from 30 June 1869 to 30 December 1879.

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.

Fonds consists of material collected by Phyllis Bayley, WRCNS, during her service in World War II.

988.092.0001
Scrapbook containing a large collection of photos of the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service including both individual and group shots. The people are not identified. There are also photographs of HMCS Cornwallis ca. 1945.

988.092.0002
Scrapbook containing a collection of photographs of service women in uniform, HMCS Cornwallis, Commander MacNeill, Commodore Finch-Noyes, and HMCS Avalon.

988.092.0004
Scrapbook containing a large collection of photographs of service women in uniform, of HMCS Cornwallis, and of Phyllis Bayley.

988.092.0005
Scrapbook titled "Snaps and Scraps - My Life in the Navy", containing photographs and newspaper clippings relating to Phyllis Bayley's time in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II including photos of various vessels and other women in uniform.

988.098.0001
Our Navy magazine, 1957.

988.098.0002
Our Navy magazine, 1955.

988.098.0003
The WREN Newsletter, August 1949.

988.098.0004
WREN Reunion magazine, Toronto, Ontario, 1950.

988.098.0005
WRCNS Reunion Magazine, Vancouver, August 1958.

988.098.0006
Vancouver Reunion souvenir edition of the WREN Newsletter, August 1958.

988.098.0007
United States Navy Occupational Handbook: A Manual for Civilian Guidance Counselors Schools and Libraries also Employment and Youth Agencies, published by the Bureau of Naval Personnel, Washington, D.C., 1959.

988.098.0008
HMCS Cornwallis magazine.

988.098.0009
Canadian Forces Sentinel magazine, November 1965.

988.098.0010
Typewritten booklet titled "The Cornwallis Christmas Story: or (Once Upon a Passing-Out Ceremony)", as told by P.S. Milson, RCN. And, two newspaper clippings, a Paris 1937 Exhibition bookmark, and an RCN draft order, dated 1946.

988.098.0011
Certificate from Civil Defence Canada awarded to Phyllis L. Bayley for her service as a volunteer worker for civil defense in the war against Germany dated 1945.

988.098.0012
Canadian Civic Defence College folder containing assorted documents and reports relating to the Department of National Health and Welfare including blank forms, training documents, and handwritten notes.

988.098.0013
Folder containing Phyllis Bayley's Royal Canadian Navy reports regarding regulations relating to obedience, punishments for disobedience, and lists of offences as well as some correspondence, dating to the 1950s.

988.098.0014
General reports and documents of the Royal Canadian Navy including blank forms and documents describing regulations and policies.
988.098.0015
Assorted publications related to Royal Canadian Navy Service and Naval recruitment including booklets, brochures, pamphlets regarding recruitment and naval training for officers, WRENS, and nurses, and a few miscellaneous typed documents dating primarily to the 1950s.

988.098.0016
Assorted pages and clippings from the Cornwallis Ensign newspaper and the Wren Newsletter newspaper, dating from 1957 to 1966. Also a Ceremony of the Flags pamphlet, The Port Royal Habitation booklet and a photograph of four unidentified women and a man in uniform.

988.098.0017
General reports of the Royal Canadian Navy relating to regulations and procedures for leave, pensions, drills, signals, etc. As well as the procedure in the event of pregnancy of a WREN and photocopies of posters and tables. Most are undated, but some dated to 1956.

988.098.0018
Collection of Christmas cards, correspondence, and poems dating from 1944 to the 1960s. Also, a coloured print of HMS Rodney (battleship) and HMCS Saguenay.

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.