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Fonds consist of personal correspondence, and financial expenditure accounts.

This parchment certificate is given as a certificate of competency as master of a passenger steamer in the minor inland waters to John Webber. It was signed by the deputy Minister (illegible) and the Minister of Marine and Fisheries (Louis Henry Davies). The back provides: certificate number 3263, Webber’s birthplace as 27th July 1860 in Newfoundland, his signature, and that the examination for the certificate was done on 18th March 1901. There are some missing letters, ink transferred, and dirt because of its originally folded state.

Fonds consists of articles from The Mechanic Arts Magazine vol IV, no. 6, July 1899 (reprint?) titled "Splices, Knots, and Bends" by Ernest K Roden, and article titled "To Splice a Wire Rope" by W.H. Morris.

Fonds consists of an address made to Sir A. Ramaswami Mudaliar, chairman of India Steamship Company Limited, delivered at the annual general meeting of shareholders December 1951 and 1952, two copies of a service contract for floating staff personnel of India Steamship Company Limited, and a typed report/meeting transcript dated 18 January 1955.

Also contains a scrapbook related the Canadian Pacific Railway BC Coast Steamship Service.

Built in 1912 by the Collingwood Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. as a Canadian government lighthouse tender. In 1930-1940 she was owned by the Minister of Marine and Fisheries in Ottawa and from 1940 to 1970 she was owned by the Minister of Transport. She was in service for 55 years. Drawn by CRA and traced by PBT. Written right next to the information in pen is Yarrows Ltd. Collingwood Shipyard (1883-1986) located on the Great Lakes built over 200 ships including 23 warships for the Second World War. It was acquired by Canada Steamship Lines in 1945.

Fonds consists of certificates of service with handwritten comments by the captains of a number of vessels including HMCS Rainbow and HMCS Niobe dating from 1913 to 1940. Also includes a collection of photographs mainly of ships but also of officers, parties, and drills. One photograph is of C.H. Brown receiving O.B.E. decoration. Also includes a souvenir programme of the presentation of the King's Colours to the Royal Canadian Navy Western Command by HM King George VI, May 30, 1939.

Fonds consists of six issues of "The Log" magazine of HMCS Royal Roads, Royal Canadian Naval College from 1943 to 1948, and 1953 and a copy of the 1954/1955 issue of "Venturian" magazine containing articles in both English and French.

Fonds also includes programmes for the Commemoration Service of the Battle of the Atlantic from 1956, 1957, and 1970, a Christmas card from Robin Hayward to Commander Little featuring a copy of a photograph of the HMCS Algonquin, and an extract from a report on the proceedings of HMC Skeena and Saquenay at the Coronation of His Majesty King George VI, 4 June 1937.

Fonds consists of photographs of ships and crew dating to the 1950s and documents in a Canadian Armed Forces folder. The documents include a page full of signatures for the retirement of Lieutenant Commander Joe Prosser, R.C.N., information on HMCS Oriole, a biography of Lieutenant Commander James Gracie, information regarding sail training, and a letter from James R. Gracie to T.J. Patterson, Deputy Superintendent, US Department of Transportation dated 1984.

Fonds consists of a photo album containing photographs of the Victoria and Esquimalt area with an emphasis on naval ships and merchant shipping.

Fonds consists of a letter from Charles Bush asking for stores for HM Ships in Kingston, Jamaica, dated 6 November 1742.