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Fonds contains photos, documents, correspondence, and promotional material including pamphlets and posters related to the Victoria Line, Victoria to Seattle, as well as ships plan for the SS Princess Marguerite II and blueprints for the Vancouver Island Princess Terminal at Ogden Point in Victoria BC. See below for more detailed inventory.

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Yellow Duotang titled “Pier 48 / Set-up / Procedures”, dated 1 May 1995. Contains 72 photos of Victoria Line and Pier 48 in Victoria and 1 terminal plan.

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White binder labeled “The Victoria Line / Pier 48 / & Misc.” Contains loose pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and parking permits related to the Victoria Line (Victoria – Seattle Car and Passenger Ferry) slipped into front cover and assorted documents, reports, correspondence, and news releases dating to the 1990s.

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White binder labeled “The Victoria Line / TMGS Information / Correspondence”. Contains photos of the Victoria Line Pier 48 Set-up 4 October 1994, business licences with the city of Seattle dating from 1994 to 1996, registration licenses with the state of Washington, and a certificate of authority from the state of Washington secretary of state slipped into front cover, and assorted documents, correspondence, notes, staff lists, dating to the 1990s.

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Laminated ships plan for SS Princess Marguerite II, specifically fire control plan.

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Five pages of plans/blueprints for the Vancouver Island Princess Terminal at Ogden Point, dated January 1987. Includes mechanical site service plan, site plan, floor plan, elevations plan, and building section. Plans are by W.K. Stockdale & Associates Ltd., and Benjamin Bryce Levinson Architects & Planners.

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Victoria Line Banner.

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Victoria Seattle Car and Passenger Ferry Poster.

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Victoria Line Inaugural Sailing 21 May 1994 posters.

Fonds consists of a daily log book for a voyage commencing 1 May 1924 and finishing 30 September 1926 at Cape Beale, B.C.

Fonds consists of a folder containing correspondence regarding the Canadian Pacific Railway Company Steamship Service and the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees. Documents are related to changes being made to meal checks, the issue of shortages sustained by cashiers and complaints and problems aboard SS Nanaimo, SS Princess Elizabeth, SS Princess Joan, and TEV Princess Marguerite.

Also includes a folder containing general correspondence, reports, and financial statements regarding Canadian Pacific British Railway Company Steamship service and Union Steamships Limited relating to the 1954 voyages of SS Yukon Princess and SS Cassiar.

Fonds consists of a notebook containing drawings and written logs of the mechanical systems, ca. 1940 and a blank spirit stoppage ration book for HMC ships.

Fonds consists of an Easthope Marine engines catalogue and tide tables book for 1847.

Fonds consists of a book of clippings of the "Great War Naval Anniversaries, WWI" column, presented to the Senior Naval Officer, Esquimalt, Royal Canadian Navy, in 1929 on behalf of the B.C. Historical Association.

Fonds consists of a Royal Naval College of Canada 1917 calendar.

Fonds consists of the International Exhibition Glasgow 1901 official catalogue of the Scottish History and Archaeology Section published by Chas. P. Watson. Page 154 contains a description of an old armchair made from the oak of the largest of the Spanish Armada ships which was wrecked on the West Kilbride coast near Portincross Castle, inscribed on back 'W.B. 1692'. The inscription belongs to William Baillie who was superior of Kilbride Barony at about that time. Also included are a typed explanation from the donor and a newspaper clipping.

Fonds consists of a scrapbook containing images, articles, newspaper clippings, and photographs, many of which are photocopies, relating to the World War II record of HMCS Waskesiu.

Fonds consists of an envelope with a drawing of Captain Cook sent via Paquebot Mail from the Cook Passage, Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, to the curator of "The Museum", Victoria, BC. Also includes a letter describing the meaning of the envelope, and a one page history of Paquebot mail, dated September 1978.