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Fonds consists of three scrapbooks and a photo album containing newspaper clippings relating to military sporting events in Victoria between 1937 and 1944 as well as clippings relating to the Navy's participation in the Royal Visit to Victoria in 1939.

Fonds consists of menus from Cunard White Star Lines from RMS Scythia ca. 1950 and M/V Georgic ca. 1951. Also includes a table number ticket.

Fonds consists of a letter from the Department of Naval Services to P.W. Nelles informing him of his appointment by the minister of the Naval Services as midshipman to HMCS Niobe, signed by Rear-Admiral E.E. Kingswell, director of Naval Service in Ottawa, dated 17 October 1910.

This print reproduction of Robert McVittie’s painting depicts the tender containing three people heading back to the Thermopylae. There is pen and coloured pencil on the margin of the print at the bottom near the title of the work. The artwork is signed on the bottom left of the painting. The Thermopylae was berthed in Victoria from 1891 to 1895.

The print reproduction of Edward Hooper’s 1941 painting depicts three sail boats on a windy day near a house on the coast. Hooper used minimalism to give viewers the opportunity to make personal connections to each piece. His aesthetic key to success was the emphasis on the horizontality of lines and light in selected scenarios. There is still a sense of stillness in this breezy scene.

The print reproduction of a painting depicts a coast guard ship with a helicopter, with mountains and a sailboat in the background. It is the 66th copy of a 100 signed prints made of the work. It was painted by Robert McVittie, CSMA, FCA.

This print of Alfred Howell’s artwork done in the hatching style depicts the profile of a ship with three people at the bow. The year is illegible next to his signature in the rough waves. It is the 75th copy of a 100 signed prints made of the work.

This print of Alfred Howell’s artwork done in the hatching style depicts the billowing sails on a ship in the middle of the ocean. It is the 81st copy of a 100 signed prints made of the work.

The Princess Marguerite was a small luxury liner built in 1948 in Scotland by the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Limited for Canadian Pacific Steamships. She and her sister ship, Princess Patricia, were designed to run the triangle route between Vancouver, Victoria and Seattle during the summer months. She arrived to Victoria April 6th 1949 and entered service April 28. In the early-mid 1970s she went through a conversion at Yarrows Ltd. She was taken out of service in the 1970s, returned to service in the 80s until her retirement in 1989. Although effort was put into keeping Princess Marguerite in Victoria waters she left in 1992.
The items in this series are clearly labeled or were in an envelope that was labelled with other Princess Marguerite items.

The series contains:
5 subseries: Manuals, Ship Plans, Reference Lists, Inspection Photos, Evacuation Photos
1 photograph

0058: 1 photograph ; col.; 9 x 11 cm
This colour fuzzy colour photograph shows a row of cars on the car deck of a ferry. There is a person in the background of the photo. The photo was taken near the stairway up to the passenger decks.

The series contains 2 newspaper article clippings regarding the final Canadian voyage of the Princess Joan between Victoria and Vancouver in 1959.
The Princess Joan was built in 1930 in Scotland by the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. for the Canadian Pacific Steamships. Since the beginning of her trips she has had a number of collisions, including with the Bamfield (who was rum running), and the Squid (who was carrying 400 cases of dynamite to the Britannia Mine), both who sank. Princess Joan was withdrawn from service in 1959 and sold to a company in Cyprus.
George Mortimore wrote for the Daily Colonist from 1945 to 1962, and from 1950 he did a portion of the newspaper called “All Aboard” that continued for 11 years were he wrote profiles on many different types of people. From the time of his return from serving in the military until he moved to Toronto to write in The Globe and Mail. He would later go on to teach anthropology in universities in Guelph, Edmonoton, Vancouver and Victoria.