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Fonds consists of a drawing of Fort Victoria ca. 1857.

Fonds consists of reports on the salvage operations conducted by Island Tug & Barge Company Vessels.

1. Report on the salvage of M/V Lefkipos, 15 March 1966. Incomplete (missing)
2. Report on the salvage of the freighter SS Georgidore, by the salvage vessel Sudbury II, 30 October 1959. Also includes copy of Lloyd’s Standard Form of Salvage Agreement, dated 31 October 1959, a chart, some photographs, and copy of “Salvage Ships at Work” pamphlet.
3. Report salvage operations SS Tonsina, 20 January 1965.
4. Report on the salvage of the Packer Seamaid, 11 October 1960.
5. Report on the salvage of the freighter S.S. Makedonia by the salvage vessel SS Sudbury, 12 December 1955. Also includes copy of Lloyd’s Standard Form of Salvage Agreement, copies of SS Sudbury chief officer’s log book, and S.S. Sudbury chief engineer’s log book.
6. Report on the salvage of SS Glafkos, 1 January 1962. Also includes copy of Lloyd’s Standard Form of Salvage Agreement, dated 4 January 1962, a sequence of events chart, photographs, and a copy of “Salvage Ships at Work” pamphlet.

Also includes 6 scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings dating from 1946 to 1948 and 1952 o 1961 and 6 albums containing an index for the Island Tug & Barge negative cabinet.

This collection of Christmas cards and photographs from the 1910s and 1920s belonged to Joseph Dakers and Bill Mills. As the family lived in Victoria these photos are from Victoria and Vancouver Island.
The following information is provided by the donor, Elizabeth Stanlake. The two Christmas cards were sent to her grandfather, Joseph Dakers, as he was good friends with Harold Elworthy, who founded Island Tug and Barge as they grew up together. The original owners of the photos are unknown as they were found in the family home and either belonged to Bill Mills or Joseph Dakers. The photos of the tugs and the wreck of Kenkon Maru III were taken by a friend of Bill Mills named Arthur.
The fonds consists 11 items.
There are 2 series:
Christmas cards, containing 2 cards
Island Tug and barge, containing 3 photos
6 at the item level not in a series

Fonds consists of a track chart titled "Lake Champlain, Captain Webster, 1910" given to Eleanor J. Fuller as a memento of her voyage from Liverpool to Montreal 24 June to 2 July 1910.

The fonds contains 6 prints and 1 drawing. They depict different sailing and military ships. There are different artists and styles, and the drawing appears to be an artist proof with a copyright symbol.

Fonds consists of material relating to the career of Captain Einar Eikanger including log books, photographs, certificates of discharge, naturalization, and competency, correspondence, and cards fating from the 1950s to 1960s. The log books are in English and Norwegian.

Fonds consists of "The Naval Bulletin" issued by the naval intelligence division, naval staff, admiralty, for the information of HM men, dating to 30 March 1945.

Fonds consists of three issues of "The Naval Volunteer" magazine dating to October 1915, November 1915, and February 1916.

The fonds consists of certificates, appointments and warrants following Boulton's career from Greenwich Hospital School final examination (1858) to his 1880 appointment as additional Engineer HMS Excellent for service in HMS Medway. Most issued by the Admiralty, signed and dated. Includes a typewritten inventory of papers in collection.

Fonds consists of a typed letter addressed to Rear Admiral E.W. Finch-Noyes recounting the writer's experience of the near sinking of the HMCS Grilse in 1916 and a newspaper clipping from 1916 that states that Grilse and all men are believed to be lost.

Also includes commissioning booklets of HMCS Saquenay, Skeena, Margaree, and Chaudiere, dating from 1956, 1957, and 1959, and a programme for the presentation of the Queen's Colour to the Royal Canadian Navy by Her Majesty the Queen in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Saturday 1 August 1959.