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Fonds consist of financial records, docking records, and correspondence related to Yarrows Shipbuilding, Ltd, ranging from 1921 to 1926. Also includes a photo album taken by and for Yarrows. Also includes a ship plan reproduction for the HMS Wilde Goose, designed by John Lambert for Yarrow & company in the UK. FAlso contains periodicals, Seaports and the World, and blueprints built by Harbour Marine Co. Ltd. Also contains plans and drawings.

Fonds consist of photo albums for industrial sites, workers and executives, and equipment from various forestry and engineering businesses, in addition to Yarrows itself. Also includes work done by the National Council of Jewish Women. Also contains photo albums of royal visits to Yarrows Limited, including the Duke of Devonshire, and the Prince of Wales. Also includes photos of the M/V Kalvik.

Fonds consists of photocopies of records relating to the career of John Allan Williams during service in sternwheelers and steam tugs on B.C. Lakes for C.P.R. during the period of 1918 to 1931.

1. Transcript from the manuscript pages of a narrative written by John Allan Williams, describing his family history and his career with the Canadian Pacific Railway British Columbia Lake and River Service beginning in 1918

2. Photocopied pages of a notebook maintained by John Allan Williams during his period of employment in various steamboats from 1923 to 1931 with particular senior officers of vessels and vessel statistics

3. Photocopies of letters of reference from the period 1918 to 1931.

Fonds consists of an examiner's certificate of qualification stating that William Thomas Dunlin is qualified to discharge the duties of examiner in navigation and seamanship, dated 23 April 1894.

Also includes a passenger list for RMS Tahiti dated 10 October 1913 including route chart, pages 34 and 35 from the San Francisco Chronicle dated 16 January 1915, a package of participant permits (all permits have been torn out) from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco 1915 signed by J. Millford with an envelope, and a ticket for the California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego, 1935.

Fonds consists of a postcard of the C.P.R. building in Victoria, a postcard of the Empress of Australia, a Canadian Pacific Railway menu, and a United Wireless Telegraph Company booklet with a photograph of SS Princess Charlotte on the cover. This book is in Japanese, with some English, and is read right to left.

Fonds consists of a list of shipping on British Columbia waters in 1936.

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.

Fonds consists of menus from SS Prince Robert, dated Monday 19 June 1939, and Tuesday 20 June 1939.

Fonds consists of records and receipts for Commercial Chemicals Limited, Island tug & Barge Limited, and Vancouver Barge Transportation Limited, dating from 1938 and 1939.

Fonds consists of an unsigned invitation to visit the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's new vessel RMS Empress of Russia at Victoria on 7 June 1913, a boarding pass allowing G.W.A. Crocker and assistant to visit Canadian Pacific Railways's RMS Empress of Asia disembarking troops in Victoria on 24 January 1919, and twelve Canadian Pacific Railway wharf passes signed by L.D. Chethan.