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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 a letter written by master George Hawker to his mother and father, Captain Hawker, R.N., dated Nice, 19 March 1927.

Also includes a postcard with an image of HMS Warrior, assorted pamphlets, booklets, and brochures, regarding maritime history and tourism around Canada and the United Kingdom, and a specification sheet for ITM Venturer.

Fonds consists of photographs, postcards, prints of drawings, and promotional material related to B.C. Ferries, the Royal Navy, and the United States Navy as well as 71 postcards and a few photographs featuring images of HM ships, RM ships, trains, train stations, and cars, possibly dating from 1904 to 1916.

Fonds consists of assorted passenger lists, guest lists, postcards, correspondence, and invitations relating primarily to voyages to and from Manila, dating from 1921 and 1930 to 1938. There are also two United States Philippine Islands passports issued in 1931 and 1934 to Ina Elizabeth Olnick (born in Chicago 25 November 1899), accompanied by children: Benjamin S., Jr., Van M., and Barbara Lucille. The letters numbered 0010 and 0011 survived the bombing of Manila in World War II and were brought by the donor's father to Seattle in 1945 after his internment by the Japanese at Santo Tomas University, Manila, Philippine Islands, from 1942 to 1945. Also, a framed souvenir coloured drawing of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Empress of Japan.

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 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.

Fonds consists of photographs, photographs cut out of newspapers and magazines, a continuous certificate of discharge, a certificate as fourth class engineer, an identity certificate, and assorted correspondence related to the service of Floyd Norman Vangen dating from 1940 to 1949.

Also includes a framed certificate of competency as second class engineer dated 1956 and, taped to the reverse side of the frame, a certificate of competency as third class engineer dated 1952.

Also includes a souvenir photobook of travel from Prince Rupert, British Columbia to Skagway, Alaska, assorted black and white photographs, unidentified but probably also of the NorthWest coast, and several postcards.

Fonds consists of assorted material relating to the British Royal family.

L 149
Programme for the voyage of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip aboard HMCS Assiniboine, July 1959, front has signatures of Elizabeth and Philip.

L150
Programme for the presentation of the Queen's Colours to the Royal Canadian Navy by Her Majesty the Queen in Halifax, 1 August 1959.

L288
Pages 1to 4 of the “Daily Telegraph”, 28 January 1936 containing the "Programme of the King's Funeral, order of ceremonial to be observed at the funeral of his Late Majesty King George the Fifth on Tuesday, January 28, 1936".

L417
Guest book from Admirals House, Esquimalt covering the period of 7 August 1946 to 8 January 1958. Pages containing the signatures of HM Queen Elizabeth (as princess) and HRH Prince Phillip were extracted and framed.

L787
Programme for her Majesty's coronation naval review in Portsmouth, June 1953.

L1254
Celebration souvenir magazine discussing the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, published in 1953.

L1304
Programme for the visit to British Columbia of Her Royal Highness the Princess Margaret in 1958, issued by the provincial committee of arrangements for the use of Her Royal Highness and officials concerned.

L4061
Programme for the celebration of the Queen's Birthday to be held Friday, 24 May 1889 in Victoria, B.C.

P5019
List of names and ranks including addresses and telephone numbers dated 1952. Handwritten in multiple colours of ink. On the reverse is signed "Elizabeth / October 26th 1951 / Philip".

018.R.0031
Telelgram dated 8 August 1959 sent from HMCS Kootenay and Gatineau, and M/V Ulster expressing thanks for being given the opportunity to escort Her Majesty during a visit.

Fonds consist of black and white photographs relating to the Northwest Passage voyage of the HMCS Labrador

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.