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Fonds consist of brochure describing CP's Great Lake Steamships service including calls such as Georgian Bay, Port McNicoll, Lake Huron, St. Mary's River etc., printed in 1943.

Fonds consist of historic certificates for the vessels S.S. Dundurn and S.S. Winona Park, respectively.

Fonds consist of photographs depicting labourers and production at the Victoria Machinery Depot, Ltd, taken by K. G. Smith.

Fonds consist of calendars from the Canadian Stevedoring company.

Fonds consist of a chart index and diagrams for high northern latitudes.

Fonds consist of four log books for ships in the Royal Navy, ranging from 24 January 1882 - 3 November 1884.

Fonds consist of photographs, materials, and certificates detail Kung's immigration, and work on the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Fonds consist of a repoduction of map, originally published in Atlas of the Northwest Coast.

The fonds consists of records retrieved and acquired by John Clarkson. The series of ship plans were acquired while he served as the Nautical Inspector for Transport Canada. These would have been used to help with the inspection of the ships. The correspondence series was retrieved by John Clarkson while he served as the marine examiner and surveyor in Victoria. The correspondence was originally from the Steamship Inspectors Office and contains different forms of correspondence regarding the surveys and inspections of ship that were requisitioned for the second world war before and after. These pertain to the inspection of different vessels that were active along the west coast.
The fonds is arranged into two series:

1. Ship Plans-technical drawings
2. Correspondence-textual records

Black and white photographs of the crew and Westinghouse family members of “Southern Cross” in Victoria BC in 1940. The backs have been stamped with the date that they were printed September 11, 1940.
The photos are labeled by Agnes Westinghouse on the back as Victoria 1940. Information provided by the donor includes a newspaper blurb that the yacht “may be seen again in BC waters if a proposed northern development scheme is given government approval. Southern Cross…made a wartime visit to Vancouver in 1940”.
Southern Cross was a Swedish yacht owned by Axel Wenner-Gren, and was one of the fifth or sixth largest private motor yacht in the world at the time. She was previously owned by Howard Hughes and was built in 1930 for Lord Inchcape who died in 1932. The figurehead was made in the likeness of Lord Inchcape's daughter, Elsie Mackay, who disappeared whilst attempting to fly the Atlantic in 1928.