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Henry Edward Higgins Fonds
998.069.0001, 998.086.0001 · Fonds · 1911

Fonds consists of the front page of the Saturday, 25 March 1911 issue of the Victoria Daily Times with the headline "Sechelt Sinks With All on Board".

Also includes a summons from the Supreme Court of British Columbia for Henry Edward Higgins dated 11 April 1946.

Higgins, Henry Edward
Gerbracht Fonds
993.019.0001-0006, 0015-0016 · Fonds · [ca. 1940s-1980s]

Fonds consists of instruction manuals, equipment lists, and maps from the Canadian Coast Guard dating from the 1940s to the 1980s.

  1. National Research Council of Canada Radio and Electrical Engineering Division manual for motor driven gas valve for buoys, by H.R. Smyth and A.D. Hood, published in Ottawa May 1957.

  2. Canadian Coast Guard standing instructions book published by Department of Transport marine operations branch 1963.

  3. Light keepers’ manual published by the Ministry of Transport, 1970.

  4. Canadian Coast Guard Western Region Light keepers’ training course book, 1981.

  5. Canadian Coast Guard lamp course instruction manual, 1985; and Instruction booklet for installation of Tideland MaxLumina Marine Lanterns.

  6. Navigation aids phase 1 automation plan equipment list, published by the Ministry of Transport, Victoria Marine Service.

15-16. Two maps of Delta and Surrey dating to 1943 and 1956.

Canadian Coast Guard
George Henry Richards Fonds
981.029.0001 · Fonds · 1859

Fonds consists of a photocopy of a letter from Captain George Henry Richards, HM Surveying Ship Plumper, Langley Fraser River to His excellency James Douglas Esq., Governor of British Columbia, dated 21 January 1859 regarding the necessity of lighthouses on the Race Islands and Fisgard rocks.

Richards, Captain George Henry
Frederick V. Longstaff Fonds
L816, L819, L1221 · Fonds · 1927-1934

Fonds consists of two pamphlets published by F.V. Longstaff titled "The Uganda in Action" and "To Commission and To Pay Off", a ship models catalogue exhibited by the Shop Model Society at the second annual exhibition, 1933, and a catalogue of the second exhibition, April 1934 of the Ship Thermopylae, arranged by the Ship Lovers Association of Victoria, B.C.

Also includes a photo album titled "The Warwick Album". Includes photos of ports and whaling stations around Vancouver Island.

Longstaff, Frederick V.