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Fonds consists of a manuscript titled "A Sentimental Journey – These are Memories About a Period of Time When a Group of Young Women Shared Time and Space in History. This Was a Time in History When Some Things Would Never Be the Same Again", by Audrey Sim/Shortridge, Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service. Also contains an edited version by Tom Pound on floppy disk.

Fonds consists of a framed photograph of HMCS Digby (1942), HMCS Minas (1941), and HMCS Port Colborne (1943), and a letter of recommendation for A.S. Andrews from the Navy League of Canada to the Captain of M/V Bonnington Court.

Also includes a Canadian Pacific Steamship menu for a goodbye dinner held 5 April 1940 with approx 10 signatures inside, a continuous certificate of discharge booklet issued by the Department of marine & Fisheries Canada for Arthur Stewart Andrews recording discharges from CPR ships between 1936 and 1941, and 12 black and white photos of CPR ships which were removed from a photo album prior to being donated

Fonds consists of 5 photo albums containing memorabilia relating to ships, the Navy, and global travel dating from the 1940s until the 1970s.

Box 1
Album 1: Contains memorabilia related to the Sea Cadet Corps and global travel including photographs, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, certificates, official documents, programs. Documents date from 1942 to 1948.

Album 2: Contains memorabilia relating to global travel including photographs, menus, pamphlets programmes, guide books, newspaper clippings, Documents date from 1948 to 1958.

Album 3: Contains memorabilia related to Cunard Steamship Company Limited including invitations, passenger lists, promotional pamphlets, menus, cards, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, photos, and letters. Also includes documents relating to Kent Line Limited, Motor Vessel Owners, the Royal Navy, and Royal Mail Ships. Documents date from 1958 to 1968.

Box 2
Album 4: Contains documents notes, photographs, and newspaper clippings related to the Titanic, the Queen Mary I and II, The Queen Elizabeth II the Queen Mary II, the Royal Navy, the Royal Merchant Navy; the Royal Canadian Navy, the United States Navy, and the Shanghai Incident of 1949.

Album 5: Contains photos of North West Territories Marine Operations from 1976 to 1979.

Fonds consists of:

• Two copies of a report titled "Address by Rear-Admiral W.M. Landymore, Flag Officer Atlantic Coast, on the Occasion of Laying Away the R.C.N's White and Blue Ensigns at HMCS Stadacona, 15 February 1965,
• A copy of the log of the United States Steam Saginaw Side Wheel under the command of Lieutenant Commander S. R. Franklin, U.S. Navy, at anchor in Esquimalt Harbour, 30 August 1866,
• A programme of the World War II navy show "Meet the Navy" presented by the Royal Canadian Navy,
• Two photo albums containing photographs of naval operations during World War II and of HMCS Donnaconna in Montreal.

Fonds consists of a small, red leather diary kept by stoker petter officer A. Thomas (later magistrate) on HMCS Rainbow and Grise, dating from 26 April 1918 to 20 November 1918 and a chief engineer's log book for SS Salvage King commanded by A. Thomas, dating from April to May 1940.

Fonds consists of a November 1915 issue of "The Naval Volunteer" Magazine.

Fonds consists of

• a map of Esquimalt Harbour, dated 1915 in pencil on reverse, printed on blueprint paper
• A 1917 diary and almanac,
• A 1929 journal,
• A 1940 record book,
• A book of Yarrows Limited estimate sheets,
• A memorandum of agreement between Yarrows Limited and The Canadian Pacific Railway,
• A binder containing alphabetical list of jobs
• Thirty estimate work books from Yarrows Ltd. dating from 1914 to 1944.