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Fonds consists of a certificate appointing Mr. Arthur Allen to sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy dated 25 November 1873.

Fonds consists of a Canadian Pacific Steamship's Dutchess of Atholl dinner menu dated Sunday, 26 July 1931 and a photograph of 9 unnamed ship's officers.

The Tofino series contains photos and photo album leafs that depict Tofino and the surrounding area, seiners and trollers fishing from 1933-1937. Located on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the traditional territory of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation of the Nuu—chah-nulth people, south of Clayoquot Sound. Settlers came to the site and the surrounding around starting in the 1890s. Officially named Tofino with the opening of a post office in 1909, although its first store was opened in 1901, a school in 1906 and a wharf and lifeboat station in 1908 and its church in 1913. Tofino was incorporated as a municipality in 1932. Tofino developed around the fishing and logging industries, now known for its natural beauty and a great destination for outdoor recreation.
The newspaper covers the events of the naval action that lead to Lord Nelson’s death. Lord Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) was a British Naval Commander known for victories in battles such as the Nile in 1798 and of Trafalgar in 1805, where he was killed. He was promoted to captain in 1779 when he was 20 during the American Revolution.

The fonds consists of:
1 series that contains 9 photographs, 6 photo album leafs
1 newspaper

Fonds consists of ship's plans of SS Princess Royal, 1907.

Also includes photographs of a variety of vessels including HM Ships, the Empress line, Tugs, Canadian Coast Guard, HMC Ships and Steamships.

Also includes an oil painting of a muzzle heading rifle gun and crew shown schematically on shipboard with gun rigged and ready to fire, painted by Anthony Clarke.

Fonds consists of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police booklet titled "Reports and Other Papers Relating to the Two Voyages of the R.C.M. Police Schooner "St. Roch" Through the North West Passage", detailing the voyage from Vancouver, British Columbia to Sydney, Nova Scotia from 1940 to 1942, and from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1944.

Fonds also includes a calling card for Inspector E.J. Lucas, RCMP.

Fonds consists of postcards and pamphlets related to Cunard steamship lines and Canadian National Railway and a Canadian National Railway booklet titled "Scenic Canada" containing photographs of scenic locations across Canada, 1925.

Fonds consists of 2 framed black and white photographs and one black and white photographed printed on hard cardboard.

1. 61 x 45.5 cm, black and white photograph of the Union Steamship Company of B.C. ship Catalia at sea. Printed on heavy hardboard and unframed.
2. Framed 34.5 x 41 cm, black and white photograph of SS Elginshire off the coast of Cape Horn in 1901. The inscription on the front of the picture says it is the “vessel in which Capt. W.M. Crawford served his time”.
3. Framed 52.5 x 45 cm, black and white photograph of a pintail flying boat model 204, a Western Canada Airways boat. This boat was a Boeing Model B-1E.

Fonds consist of annual reports of the Canadian Merchant Service Guild.

Fonds consists of a certificate of competency of a steam-tug boat in the coasting trade for Andrew MacPherson, dated April 1926.

Fonds consists of a journal prepared by an officer of HMS Daring (on station 1874-1898) in 1879. Contains remarks on mercantile naval courts, references to mercantile shipping acts, and records of correspondence dating from 28 February 1876 to 18 February 1880, referring to Mr. A.N.C. King.