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Fonds consists of a DVD titled "Freedom of Aberfeldy", a recruiting film made by the U.K. Ministry of Information in 1941 featuring three servicemen, a Canadian, an Australian, and a New Zealander in Scotland while in service during WWII. The Canadian featured in the video was named Gordon Bolin and he died as a result of HMCS Teme being torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1945.

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.

Fonds consists of a certificate for the inaugural trip of the new British Columbia toll Authority Ferry Service between Vancouver and Victoria on 15 June 1960.

Front of page contains 4 photos. The page is labeled Chstermans Beach. Three of the photos are blurry photos of the coastline. The fourth photo is of a seiner boat coming into the wharf.
The back contains no photos.

Front of page contains 5 black and white photos on seining. One boat and its tender with the crew working with the net. Some of the photos are blurry.
Back of page contains 3 colour photos. The one with herring in the brailer of the boat appears to be hand coloured. The other two photos are of boats, “Pete” and “New Liverpool”. “New Liverpool” was owned by Nisuke Nakanichi who worked for the Long Beach Tuna Company, and was seized in 1942.

Front of page contains 2 photos on seining. One is labelled as “Yankee Boy” in which you can see a boat and its tender and three people. The other photo is a picture of a man looking over the edge of the boat while holding a net.
Back of page contains 2 photos that are blurry. One is labeled in the bottom left hand side as Pipestem Inlet, Barclay Sd. The other is another landscape photo on a lake with a background of forested mountains.

Front of page contains 1 photo of Tofino BC. The postcard contains a view of part of the town with docks with writing on the bottom left stating Tofino, BC. The back of the postcard states the business in the buildings.
Back of page contains 3 photos that are blurry. The first photo is labeled ‘Lone Cone from hotel window’, and is a view over a roof of the water and mountains. The second photo is labeled ‘Ye Olde White Wings. Many Royal Times had here’. It is a blurry photo of a building with a restaurant on its roof. The third photo is of the boat “West Hope”.

Front of page contains 1 postcard with the label of ‘”The Princess Norah” at Tofino Whatf’. Shown is Princess Norah coming into the Tofino Wharf. There is a group of people standing on the wharf on the right side of the photo, and a troller on the interior side of the wharf. The back states that the troller is “West Hope” and belongs to the hotel manager and about a journey to Long Beach in it.
Back of page contains 1 photo of a sunset in Tofino. The buildings along the coast are not visible because of the darkness of the photo along the edges.

The front of the page has two hand colour photos. The first is of “Bertha L” on fire at the Tofino wharf. The other boats at the wharf are “Ryuo II” and “Ruth B.”. The second photo is another one of “Bertha L.” burning but is being towed by “Ruth B” and “Norpack I” away from the deck. The photos are slightly wavy. “Ryuo II” was owned by Kitaro Nitta who worked as a fish buyer for the Canadian Fishing Co. Ltd. and Bertha L. was owned by the Clayoquot Sound Canning Co.Ltd.
There is nothing on the back of the page.

Photo of 7 people on the dock, the women are aware photo is being taken, all men except one were turned away from the photographer. The back has all the names of the people in the photo. Some are illegible, including the Captain’s name, and there is a note for engineer and Wilson. Included in the picture is Violet and Tom Westinghouse. The siblings of Agnes (Westinghouse) Simpson, who is believed to be taking the photo.