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Material related to the early maritime families of Victoria, the Litsters and Jupps. Fonds includes records and photographs concerning the CS Restorer, SS Camosun, and B.C. shipwrecks.

Fonds consists of service records and personal documents of W.H. Lifton and G.H. Lifton, documents related to the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and programmes and menus from the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteer Force.

Contents:

1. Certificate of service for W.H. Lifton dated 6 January 1856.
2. Certificate of continuous service for W.H. Lifton beginning 6 January 1866 and ending with service in HMS Warrior 1868 in the rank of Gunner’s Mate.
3. Certificate awarding naval pension and Greenwich Hospital Pension for W.H. Lifton to commence 21 June 1876.
4. Prayer pamphlet with handwritten note in ink on cover that reads “Lifton, H.M.S. Albion, R.N. Crimean War”.
5. Certificate of promotion to Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve for G. H. Lifton, dated 21 June 1917. Also, has a stamp across the top that says Cancelled, 31 December 1918.
   6.1. Certificate of discharge from the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteer Reserve for G. H. Lifton dated 15 April 1885.
   6.2. Handwritten note on Birkenhead Companies Mersey Division letterhead, consisting of a very brief letter of recommendation for G.H. Lifton dated 3 January 1912.
   6.3. Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Mersey Division service certificate of G. H. Lifton containing records dating from 1903 to 1912.
6. Typed copy of Order-in-Council authorizing and constituting Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve dated 14 May 1914 in Ottawa.
   8.1. Photocopy? of program for display given by the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteers dated 29 January 1914.
   8.2. Notice of upcoming seamanship instruction dated 24 March 1914 and signed by G.H. Lofton, Honorably Secretary of the Victoria Volunteer Naval Reserve Organization.
7. Extract from 1919 Royal Navy List, listing the officers of the Royal navy and of the Royal Marines on the retired, emergency, and reserved lists with the dates of their seniority. Also list of Lieutenants, sub-lieutenants, mates, surgeons, paymasters, and assistant paymasters of the royal naval volunteer reserve and naval establishments of dominion governments.
8. Memorial record for George Henry Lifton who died at the age of 59, 3 October 1923.
   11-29. Assorted programmes, menus and cards for the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteer Force dating from 1891 until 1906. These are illustrated with whimsical drawing of British tars and illustrate the bonds of comradeship which continued to hold members of the Royal Naval Volunteer Artillery together after it was disbanded.
9. Article printed by the Royal Canadian Navy, c. 1960, titled “Brief History”.

Fonds consists of an invitation, a programme, and a newspaper clipping relating to the naming of the dock ceremony at CFB, Esquimalt, 1971.

Also includes blank cards with coloured drawings of Victoria and Vancouver Island sites from the 1800s and a scrapbook containing printed view cards of landmarks in Egypt and Quebec, cigarette card photos, and photos of various vessels.

Fonds consists of two cash books, dating from 1952 to 1964 containing all accounting info, cash in and out, and also several lists of names.

Fonds consists of the commissioning booklet of HMCS Ontario, 26 April 1945.

Fonds consists of a 1969 Empress of England passenger list, a souvenir magazine for Victoria-Maui international Yacht Race 1982, and a copy of manuscript titled "History of the Canadian Naval Auxiliary Vessels 1945-1967 [East Coast]".

Fonds consists of the Royal Navy service records for John Kelly who served from 1837 to [1858?] and died in 1868 and for Micheal Kelly who was born 8 September 1848 and served from 1863 to 1895.

Fonds consists of black and white photographs of HMCS Prince David and crew at sea and at port between 1943 and 1945. There is also a dvd containing digital copies of the photos.

Fonds consists of an envelope and specifications sheet describing HMCS Assiniboine, commissioned 16 August 1956, in English and French. The envelope is dated 1988.

Fonds consists of a pocket-size new testament belonging to Kathleen Galagher. It is a 1943 edition issued to nursing sisters of the Royal Canadian Navy during WWII.

Fonds also includes 3 printed copies of black and white photographs of Kathleen Gallagher and a CD containing copies of the photographs.

Also includes an undated Christmas greeting card signed "From the Captain and Wardroom Officers" with a black and white reproduction of a photo of HMCS Kootenay, a Royal Canadian Navy ship active from 1943-1946.