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Fonds consists of 5 prayer books:

1. "The Armour of God: A pocket Companion for Canadian Presbyterians in his Majesty's Forces", published by the presbyterian church in Canada,
2. Book issued by the War Service Committee of the United Church of Canada,
3. Book of devotion and instruction for use in war time titled "Fight the Good Fight", published by the Church of England, Toronto,
4. A second copy of "Fight the Good Fight: A Book of Devotion and Instruction for Men and Women in the Armed Forces" published by the Church of England in Canada, dated 1955,
5. "The Armour of God: A pocket Companion for Canadian Presbyterians in his Majesty's Forces", published by the presbyterian church in Canada.

The information on the poster provided in English and French states: Destroyer landing: a Sea King helicopter over the flight deck of HMCS Iroquois, one of the new DDH 280 class destroyers. The photo is a DND photo taken in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. The absence of hangar-top and hangar-face lines and other appropriate flight deck markings meant that the flight deck was not yet certified for landing at the time of the photo, as the ship had just been accepted into the CF. The image was taken by the DND

Postcard of a view of the village of Tofino from a boat with writing at the bottom right hand side that says Tofino, BC.

The back of the postcard has the annotation that Peerless was built in 1904 in New Westminster. The photo is a profile view of the tug Peerless with three men visible with a forested coast in the background.
Peerless was owned 1904-1910 by Westminster Towing & Fishing Company, and the next known owner in 1920-1926 was Coyle Towing Co Ltd.

Postcard photo of a landscape of a lake and forested mountains with writing at the bottom left hand side that says Herbert Arm, Clayoquot Sd. The photo is grainy.

The oversize postcard provides a view of the inner harbour. There is a ship docked on the left side of the image, there is one boat in the harbour and a seaplane docked in the harbour in front of the Empress. The Johnson Street Blue Bridge can be seen in the distance. There are two buildings in the middle of the photo, the one in the back is the Post Office, and across the street to the right is the Belmont Hotel. On the bottom right corner of the postcard is the words Inner Harbour, Victoria BC. There is a crease down the middle of the postcard and there are some marks of dirt and other creases on the postcard.
The back of the postcard provides more information about what is being shown: Inner Harbour Causeway. This striking panorama, taken from the dome of the Provincial Parliament Buildings, shows Victoria Inner harbour and a section of Victoria City, looking north on Government Street. The CPR Empress Hotel appears on the right, and also seen are the Belmont Building and the Post Office. The Cenotaph, situated on the grounds of the Parliament Buildings, is a fitting memorial to the heroes of 1914-1918. Victoria, capital of British Columbia is a magic combination of modern metropolis and garden city. Photo Courtesy CNR.
From the view of an expansion and the ivy covering a portion of the Empress hotel this postcard was made around 1930s. The hotel was built in 1908, with one expansion occurring in 1910-1912 and another in 1928.

This photograph is formed by two large photos taped together. The panorama on the bottom half of the photograph is made up of 5 photos showing the workers of the Foundation Company BC Ltd. Their motto on a banner placed behind them that says: go easy. One ship a week. That’s all.
Although the 5 photos are placed together well there is still some faces that were lost in the making of the panorama. There are also the visible torsos of people sitting and standing on the roof of the building that were cut off.
The panorama photo along the top half of the photograph is made up of another 5 photos, but they were less well placed so there are obvious cuts in the image. This panorama shows boats that were in the company’s dock. One of the 5 photos shows a sign that says: Foundation Company BC Ltd SO Pier Hulls 211, 220, 221 9/15/19. There are two visible ship names, the Trois Rivieres and the Montreal (whose port of registration is Le Havre).
Regarding damage to the photo, there are quite a few things. There are four holes where it appears that when the two photos taped together they were held together with a ribbon or something similar. There is also some discoloration because of the age of the photo, but also because of what appears to be some water damage, all of this primarily over the faces of people. There are also a number of creases. The back shows a number of stains from liquids and also potentially a burn from where something hot was placed.
The foundation Company leased the shipyard in 1917 until 1928 which would be named Point Hope Shipyards in 1938 by the then owners Island Tug and Barge. During that time they built 25 wooden cargo ships. The list of the 25 ships that they built between 1917 and 1919 show that only 5 were for The Shipping Controller, with the rest being owned by the French Government, which includes Trois Rivieres and Montreal which were both built in 1919. Trois Rivieres and Montreal were scrapped in 1925.

The photo shows 27 men standing on the ship in front of the bridge. The annotation on the back says: This is the crew of the DGS Samson and the Government Surveying party bound for the (illegible) with the initials JSK (James Stanley Keefe). DGS stood for Dominion Government ship and by the 1950s the term Dominion of Canada was no longer used by the United Kingdom. Parts of the image have faded and the card has some slight creases.

The postcard is labeled SS Princess Victoria, Photo by “Trio”, Victoria BC. The annotation on the back dates it at 1908. The image shows the decks of the ship covered in people. In the background is the Pither & Leiser Importers building.
The Princess Victoria, built in 1903, was owned by the CPR Steamship Services and entered Vancouver-Victoria service. In 1934 she was used as a floating hotel in Nanaimo. She had made collisions from the time she was built until 1953 when she sunk while being towed after striking a rock north of Sechelt.

The postcard shows an image of a profile view of the tug Olive M close to the coastline, with a Cliffside behind the tug. The back annotations states that Olive M was built in 1911 in Vancouver and was acquired by Island Tug & Barge in 1948 and renamed Sea King I. The postcard was sent to Bill Mills from Arthur with the note “A picture of Olive M at Bull Pass”.