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

Fonds consists of the commissioning booklet of HMCS Ontario, 26 April 1945.

Fonds consists of an Adams Engines catalogue, an Easthope Engines instruction booklet, and an instruction booklet for operating make-and-break and jump shark Adams Engines.

Fonds consists of a photocopy of the diary of L. Frank Coxwain, private on HMS Amethyst during its journey on the Yaneste River in 1949. Also includes some photocopies of correspondence dating to 1949 and photos of the ship and the crew.

The Consolidated Whaling Corporation Ltd. had its main wharf based out of Point Ellice. The company was incorporated in 1918, registered in 1922 as an extra-provincial company, and continued operations until 1942, and the company was finally dissolved in 1953. The vessels and office equipment was auctioned of in 1947 when the company filed for bankruptcy, with the vessels being purchased by a number of companies, mainly MH Kramer, Northern Junk Co., that were later dismantled for scrap. It was preceded by the Victoria Whaling Co, the Pacific Whaling Co, Queen Charlotte Whaling Co, and the Canadian Northern Pacific Fisheries. The company had a total of 5 whaling vessels: the Black, the Blue, the White, the Brown, and the Green. The Gray was the company tender and travelled between Victoria and whaling stations with supplies and returned with whale oil, whale bone and other items which it would take to San Francisco to sell. All whaling stations were closed by 1967.
The fonds consists 17 items: 17 enlarged copies of photos related to whaling, 9 of which are on mat board

Fonds consists of six Yarrows Shipyard, Victoria daily journals dating to 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, and 1941.

Fonds consists of an invitation, a programme, and a newspaper clipping relating to the naming of the dock ceremony at CFB, Esquimalt, 1971.

Also includes blank cards with coloured drawings of Victoria and Vancouver Island sites from the 1800s and a scrapbook containing printed view cards of landmarks in Egypt and Quebec, cigarette card photos, and photos of various vessels.

Fonds consists of 12 oversize Island Tug & Barge Christmas cards with drawings of various vessels on each.

Fonds consists of a photo album of Len Matthews containing a set of drawings of submarine life-saving buoys, newspaper clippings referencing various vessels dating to 1954, postcards, and photos relating to other Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy vessels dating from 1924 to 1934.

Fonds consists of a scrapbook kept by Leona Hunter in 1929. The book contains newspaper clippings of people and events around Victoria glued into the pages of a journal, and a dozen loose clippings slipped into the front cover.