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William Deacon Fonds
986.019.0011-0022 · Fonds · 1948

Fonds consists of handbills, maps, and brochures from Union Steamship Company Limited, Harbour Navigation Company Limited, and Canadian Pacific Steamship Lines, one dated to 1948, the others undated. Also includes, one plan for Canadian Pacific's Empress of England, showing arrangement of cabins.

Union Steamships Limited
R.W. Phipps Fonds
980.025.0001-0009 · Fonds · 1941, 1954

Fonds consists of one timetable/informational pamphlet dated 1954, and 8 menus, one of which is dated 1941, from Canadian Pacific Railway British Columbia Coast Steamship Service.

R.P. Brown Fonds
007.007.0001, 008.002.0001-0004 · Fonds · 1937, 1973

Fonds consists of a Cunard White Star Line, RMS Queen Mary dinner menu for Friday, 7 May 1937. Image on the cover is RMS Mauretania.

Also includes two TEV Princess Patricia Captain's dinner menu commemorating a summer cruise to Alaska and a TEV Princess Patricia passenger list for voyage leaving Vancouver, 24 June 1973, and a postcard featuring an image of the Princess Patricia.

Cunard Steamship Company Limited
981.017.0001-0006, 984.033.0001-0003, 986.031.0001-0082, 988.028.0001, 988.185.0004, 989.052.0001-0013, 999.073.0000-0050, 999.082.0001-0003, 999.189-223, 999.225.0001, 019.R.0026-0029 · Fonds · 1947-1987

981.017.0001-0006
Ticket stubs for Canadian Pacific Railway Company Steamship Lines and Canadian National Steamship Company Limited dated 1947, 1955, and 1957.

984.033.0001-0003
M/V Northland Prince dinner menu from 27 July 1971, Canadian Pacific Railway Company Steamship Line ticket for voyage from Vancouver to Victoria departing 28 December 1958, and a passenger schedule including map for Northland Navigation Company Limited M/V Northland Prince.

986.031.0001
Stickers, menus, pamphlets, passenger lists, tickets, cards, photographs, magazines, and other travel memorabilia related to a number of cruise lines and hotels. Also, a Canadian Merchant Service Guild magazine.

988.028.0001
Magazine for the Queen Elizabeth II transatlantic cruise, published by Cunard Steamship Company Limited in 1987.

988.185.0004
Postcards of Canadian Pacific Railway Steamship Princess Elizabeth and a postcard of a Holland American Line vessel.

989.052.0001-0013
Assorted pamphlets from steamship line cruises around the Pacific coast of British Columbia, Vancouver Island, and Alaska. Includes Union Steamships, Puget Sound Navigation Company, Canadian National Steamship company, and Canadian Pacific Princess Lines. Also includes one pamphlet for a French Line cruise on SS Normandie. Most are undated, but one is dated to 1935, two to 1936, and two are dated to 1938.

999.073.0000-0050
Box containing package of post cards title "All the World's Liners" featuring drawings of passenger steamships.

999.082.0001-0003
Souvenir folders of scenic images of the Canadian Rockies and Alaska, a Cunard Line baggage tag, and a newspaper clipping.

999.189-222
Assorted postcards featuring photographs and drawings of various passenger steamships.

Also includes souvenir log charts and place mats for different ferry corporations.

BC Ferries
Ohnick Fonds
000.029.0001-0018 · Fonds · 1921, 1930-1938

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.

Ohnick, Barbara
J.I. Jenkins Fonds
988.090.0002-0003 · Fonds · 1967

Fonds consists of a Canadian Pacific ferry services schedule for summer 1967 including information regarding Alaska Cruises, and a TEV Princess Marguerite timetable and specifications card.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company
J.H. Wickens Fonds
L126, L1539-L1547 · Fonds · 1873, 1949-1953

Fonds consists primarily of memorabilia related to travel on Canadian Pacific Steamship Lines dating to the 1950s, but also includes documents related to the Royal Navy dating to 1873.

L126
Letter to the admiralty dated 21 May 1873 and a protocol document signed 10 March 1873, defining the boundary line of Haro straight.

L1539
23 Canadian Pacific Steamship Line Menus.

L1540
Pamphlet regarding the Canadian Pacific Railway Company British Columbia Coast Steamship Service TEV Princess Marguerite, dating to 1949.

L1541
Brochures advertising the Canadian Pacific Steamship Line cruises to Alaska and the Yukon and between Victoria, Vancouver, Nanaimo, and Seattle.

L1542
Booklet regarding the Canadian Pacific Railway Company British Columbia Coast Steamship Service to Puget Sound and Alaska Princess line with specific mention of the SS Princess Louise as well as including general tourist information.

L1543
Request for support of S/V Pacific Queen, berthed in San Francisco.

L1544
Passenger list for Canadian Pacific British Columbia Coast Steamship Service Alaska and the Yukon via the Princess Route for RMS Empress of France, sailing from Liverpool, 4 September 1951 and for SS Princess Louise, sailing from Vancouver, 4 June, 1953.

L1545
Magazine titled "The Ocean News", distributed to all passengers on Dollar Liners bound for California, no. 4.

L1546
Blank stationary from Canadian Pacific British Columbia Coast Steamships and from Puget Sound Navigation Co., Black Ball Line, and M/V Chinook.

L1547
Luggage tag labeled "Princess Margaret", on reverse: "Trollope & Collis, Ltd.", ship name not filled in.

Wickens, J.H.
H.W. Gordon Fonds
984.056.0001 · Fonds · 1937

Fonds consists of a passenger list for Canadian Pacific Steamship Empress of Russia, 5 June 1937.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company
D.B. MacPherson Fonds
982.001.0001-0009, 984.039.0001-0005, 986.002.0001-0006 · Fonds · 1915-1962

The fonds contains service records, personal documents, and correspondence of Captain Donald Boucher MacPherson during his time with the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps and while working in marine towing and salvage.

982.001

  1. Canadian Army (active) tradesmen’s qualifications for D.B. McPherson, dated 4 February 1946.
  2. Letter of recommendation for D.B. MacPherson from the Department of National Defense, signed by C.G. Matthews, Major, Officer Commanding, Water Transport Coy, R.C.A.S.C., dated 12 February 1946.
  3. Canadian Army (active) Discharge Certificate for D.B. MacPherson, dated 4 February 1946.
  4. Permanent and sleeping out pass for unit: R.C.A.S.C. Water Transport, P.C, issued to D.B. MacPherson, dated 24 August 1943.
  5. Alien Registration receipt card and certificate of nationality of seamen, for D.B. MacPherson, dated 2 July 1940.
  6. Certificate of competency as master of a Steam Tug Boat in the coasting trade issued to D.B. MacPherson dated 12 April 1923. Also has handwritten note in top corner dated 19 May 1947.
  7. Certificate from the minister of national defense appointing D.B. MacPherson to the rank of Sergeant Major (skipper) Warrant Officer Class 1 beginning 1 September 1944, dated 4 July 1946, signed by A. Ross, Deputy Minister of National Defense. Also has two badges stapled to each corner.
  8. Certificate of competency as master of a passenger tug boat in the coasting trade issued by the minister of Marine and Fisheries for the Dominion of Canada for Donald McPherson (born 15 April 1857, died 15 April 1930). (Perhaps D.B. MacPherson’s father?), dated 15 January 1906.

984.039

  1. Correspondence addressed to D.B. Macpherson from:
    a. The Department of Public Works dating from 1951 to 1952
    b. The Alaska Steamship Company dating to 1958
    c. The Department of Highways and Greyhound Lines of Canada Limited dating to 1962
  2. And, a letter from D.B. Macpherson, recipient unknown, describing 3 attached photographs.

986.002

  1. Testimonial of sea service of D.B. MacPherson, signed December 1919.
  2. 5 certificates of service for seamen of Canadian Coasting or Inland Vessels for D.B. MacPherson for work on B.C. Coast Towing, dating from 1915 to 1923.
  3. 10 letters of reference written by Victoria Tug Co., Limited, Headquarters Pacific Command, Department of National Defence, and Island Tug & Barge regarding the service of D.B. MacPherson, dating from 1919 to 1923.
  4. 4 letters between D.B. MacPherson and the Department of Public Works, Victoria regarding employment, dating to 1947, and 1 receipt for a payment made by D.B. MacPherson 29 April 1947.
  5. 6 letters from the Department of Public Works, Victoria dating from 1951 and 1952.
  6. Letter from the Department of Highways dated 23 April 1962.
MacPherson, D.B.
Clifford Fenton Fonds
988.043.0001-0023, 991.022.0003 · Fonds · 1934-1039; 1950-1955

Fonds consists of photographs, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia regarding the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Pacific Railway Steamship Lines, the 1939 royal visit, SS Princess Kathleen, SS Princess Alice, and TEV Princess Marguerite dating primarily to the 1930s.

Also includes a draft and published versions of a manuscript titled "The Sea Apprentice: Being an Account of Two Voyages Round the World Under Canvas", by Captain Clifford Fenton. As well as an empty Sperry Gyroscope Company Limited folder, assorted personal and professional documents from Captain Fenton relating primarily to the sale and royalties of his book, assorted Canadian Pacific Steamship ephemera including dinner menus, wine list, pencil drawings, correspondence, receipts, and a memorandum of understanding dating from 1934 to 1939 and 1950 to 1955.

Fenton, Captain Clifford