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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.

Fonds consists of black and white photographs of B.C. Ferries ca. 1971, a folder containing B.C. Ferries information including a souvenir magazine and newspaper clippings dating to 1965, and a folder containing B.C. Ferries information including newspaper clippings, postcards, a dinner menu for SS Beaver, and a Canadian Shipping and Marine Engineering magazine, dating from 1970 to the 1980s.

Fonds consists of log books of Logs of HMS Conqueror, HMS Crescy, and HMS Diadem, kept by G.H.B. Reed from 1856 to 1862.

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.

Fonds consists of the personal and professional papers of Frederick MacQueen including correspondence, an apprenticeship indenture certificate dated 1932, an Argenine immigration regulations booklet dated 1935, a street map of London, a Kodak film wallet containing negatives and 50 photographs dating to the 1930s?, a small leather wallet containing an identification card, small address book, a Canadian passport, a small leather diary, and a continuous certificate of discharge.

Fonds consists of a Black Ball Ferry Lines Puget Sound Steamers schedules and map from summer, 1928.

Fonds consists of papers including A.H. Crocker's engineering certificate (1913), honour roll certificate from public school (1894), and registration of certified marine engineers (1918). Also contains A.H. Crocker's and Frank Crocker's notes. An electrical catalogue, Canadian Pacific place-mats, a map of Alexandria, historical notes on USS Coronis and a timetable of the Gulf Island run. Includes three photographs of A.H. Crocker and an oil painting of Princess Victoria reputed to be done by a cook on the ship. The collection also includes newspaper clippings of CP Ships, employees, and activities as well as a taped interview with A.H. Crocker about the Canadian Pacific dated 15 December 1987.

Navigational charts of the West Coast of Canada created between 1924-1941.

Fonds consists of photographs and documents related to the life and career of Captain Ron Newell who served as Victoria's Harbour Master from the 1940s to 1971, including documents related the sinking of a ship he was on as a teenager and his subsequent journey by lifeboat to safety, his work on Merchant Marine vessels, and photographs of various ships.